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Angela con vestido
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,921
Marine abstraite 2022-29
Fred Boutet
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
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
$1,451
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
$1,250
REF 7-24 - Composition n° 56
Jeanne
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1.8 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.7 inch
$770
Ref 5-24 - Composition n° 55
Jeanne
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$770
Through the Pale Twilit Meadows
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,130
Among the Flowers Face to face with the sky
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 125 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,130
Provence vue sur St Tropez
Brito Esteves
Painting - 61 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Rivers and Mountains
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Sens and Sensuality II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 105 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
Unconscious Spiral of Desire II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Dérèglement II
Romain Liverato
Photography - 40 x 60 x 5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$1,674
Variations sur l'introportrait
David Jamin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,795
Le compte est bon
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,679
Marine abstraite 2022-28
Fred Boutet
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Marine Abstraite 2022-19
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,005
Il fait chaud (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 37 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.6 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,009
The Time Curve #5
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,674
A large bouquet of roses.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Bright bouquet of flowers 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Le Grand bleu - Oasis
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$4,454
Blue Baroque Bordello (Stranglers wink)
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
This is a modern world
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 80 x 122.5 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 48.2 x 1.4 inch
$1,674
Snafu VIII (Situation normal all fuck up !)
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,009
Snafu VI (Situation normal all fuck up !) Dytique
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 80 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,009
Snafu VII (Situation normal all fuck up !) Dytique
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 80 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,009
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (2)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$257
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (1)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$257
Silence anticipation
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$391
Feeling good
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,116
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?