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La physique des particules
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,674
He's got a dream too
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$770
Underwater daylight M 3
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,552
Yellow Red Energy XL 5
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,668
Au commencement était le verbe
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,674
REF 11-24 - Composition n° 58
Jeanne
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$993
Set of 6 Oyster shell Incenses Holder
WKND Lab
Design - 0.5 x 30 x 13.5 cm Design - 0.2 x 11.8 x 5.3 inch
$175
How It Has Been Made Possible
Macha Poynder
Painting - 165 x 158 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 62.2 x 0 inch
$8,505
Au Pays du Soleil Levant
Yannick Bernard
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,094
La fusée érotique (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
Haring in love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$99
La magie de Picasso (a tribute to P. Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
En rêvant de Picasso (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Ritratto di una bambina
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 26 x 17 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
$201
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
$391
Flowering almond branch
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$391
Blue Maltese resort
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$536 $429
Whispers of Spring in Rural Repose
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Visual Rhapsody
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,791
Serenity in Chaos
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,349
Love #11172022
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Between The Constellatios
Melissa McGill
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,900
Self Propelled Flowers No 3
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,220
Self Propelled Flowers No 2
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,220
Self Propelled Flowers No 1
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,220
A Sequoia - Wild, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,220
When You're Alone - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$2,220
Perfect Yet Vulnerable - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$2,740
Sugar Coated
Maxime Cousineau Perusse
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 2 inch
$1,322
Reef and its dream
Anna Masiul-Gozdecka
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
La couleur de mes envies car je t'aime
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,456
Mercadillo de pueblo
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 52.5 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 20.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,786
Window view 15 - Swedish r
Low Bros
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,693
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?