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Rien - série personnages
Eric Stein
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$966
Passionnément
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 123 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 48.4 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$7,389 $6,872
Landscaping-CXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$136
Landscaping-CXLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$125
Angels' Fires (Spirits Of Skies 096017)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,380
Rushed Evolution
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,600
squilibrio rosso
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,865
French Cancan
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 200 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$7,957
Dreamscape - Zenobia
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$2,800
Sing what’s out of reach
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$13,522
Summer's light bouquet
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$284
Fusion of red roses
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$284
Vase with gladioli in August
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$398
Flowering almond branch
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$398
Blue Maltese resort
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$546
Mask
Cumbone
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$909 $818
Argentines
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,728
Les jours se sont enfuis
Nicolas Ruelle
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$853
Grand dégradé carré or orange violacé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$398
You've turned my World upside down
Lilly Muth
Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,478
Happy gypsy dance 33
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,364
Water meets Fire - Large Colorful Vivid Abstract Painting
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,250
Reflets à Giverny V
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,478
Côté ombre
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 70 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,273
La fantaisie des flotteurs
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$682
In a Pink Blouse
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$210
Playing with the sunshine
Joanna BM
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,377
Bois de feu - Peinture cerf
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$90
Tant qu'il y aura des fleurs
David Jamin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$762
Angela con vestido
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,975
Colored artworks
The work of color is central in any artistic work. It is even one of the first tools of the artist. It is difficult to imagine a work that would exist without the working of color - even if it is the absence of color that the artist chooses to present.
Through the ages and artistic movements, the use and meaning attributed to color evolves, but the essence of color remains the same. Every artist must master the properties of color in order to control his composition. In the restoration of paintings, color even becomes a science, because it is necessary to know the different molecules to find the colors and mixtures originally used by the artist.
In the history of art, the importance of color fluctuates according to periods and geographical areas. During the Italian Renaissance, for example, there was a debate (called Paragone) between the authority of color versus drawing: according to the schools, it is the color, and not the line, that creates the emotion and visual power of a work of art. The colors thus take on an immense importance, and assume certain meanings: white symbolizes purity for example, and blue (systematically used to clothe the Virgin Mary) is associated with divinity. These symbols are not thought of randomly: the purple for example, is used since the Byzantine era to signify the highest rank of royalty. Unlike ochre, the purple pigment came from a specific shell, and was extremely difficult - and therefore rare, and expensive - to obtain.
More generally, colors can be divided into three categories: warm, cool, and neutral. As their name implies, these classes of colors give off an atmosphere that the painter can use to influence the emotion of his work. Baroque art, for example, manipulates the contrasts between warm and cold colors to capture the power of bodies. The play of light is exalted by the effects of color. For a long time, the traditional Western school of painting required painters to reproduce the colors of the environment around them. It was the Impressionists, in the 19th century, who explored other ways of seeing - and therefore of transcribing on canvas - their chromatic environment. By avoiding complex mixtures and painting spontaneously, in the open air, the Impressionists reinvented the use of color to reproduce reality.
It was not until abstract and subjective painting that art devoted itself to color as a subject. Mark Rothko, precursor of the Colorfield Painting movement and of abstract expressionism, sees in his paintings a living organism whose color is human and whose format is transcendent. Piet Mondrian, on the other hand, sought in his paintings to approach the very essence of nature through the purity of primary colors, to achieve abstraction. The founder of the Russian avant-garde movement of Suprematism, Kasimir Malevich, will disturb the senses of everyone with his work "White square on white background", in which the color is painted only for itself. Contemporary art, photography, collage, or pop art also use in their respective ways the resources of color, exploring indefinitely all its pluralities. As Picasso said, "When I have no blue, I use red."
Artsper writes art in color: discover below a great selection of works that honor color and its properties. What better way to brighten up an interior?