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Peinture 06-2021- 60
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,340
Realities of Life II
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$1,000
Le fakir maladroit
Timothy Archer
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,674
Playful elegance
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 76 x 65 x 6 cm Painting - 29.9 x 25.6 x 2.4 inch
$2,891 $2,602
Inspiring landscape
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$990
Blue Expressions III
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 81 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,090
Symphony of dreams
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,140
It's Not Me, You Messed Up
Evelyn Morgan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,271
L'envolée de lumière... (origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 37 x 37 x 6 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.4 inch
$614
Discord
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$14,512
Secret Reality and Fear III
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 94 x 80 cm Painting - 37 x 31.5 inch
$2,791 $2,428
Mes orchidées colorées
Lila Maroun Frem
Painting - 87 x 87 x 3 cm Painting - 34.3 x 34.3 x 1.2 inch
$5,581
Crépuscule aux Arènes 2
Raluca Vulcan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,902
Action of Life
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,679 $2,411
A travers champs
Anne-Sophie Larcena
Painting - 19 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$335
Composition abstraite N° 42014
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,143
Les nouveaux arrivants
Joel Giraud
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,242
Layer city 46
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 200.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 78.8 x 1 inch
$1,800
Layer city 3 (diptych)
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 200.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 78.8 x 1 inch
$1,800
Paysage en bleu vert et rouge
Cécile Girard
Painting - 39 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,121
Paysage en bleu vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 29 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,121
Le quorum des trois
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$5,358
Le faune et la possible étreinte
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$5,358
Auto-portrait en prêtre de lune
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$4,577
Birches Bend to Left and Right
Rebecca Klementovich
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,200
Marine abstraite 04-2022-05
Fred Boutet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$447
Marine abstraite 04-2022-02
Fred Boutet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$447
Marine abstraite 04-2022-01
Fred Boutet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$447
Campervan seen from the water
Peter de Boer
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,663
Let me jump in your game #3
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,572
Riri, Fifi, Loulou (DuckTales)
Fat
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,349 $3,014
A form driven from a rectangular solid (juventudes musicales portfolio)
Sol LeWitt
Print - 75 x 55 x 0.2 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$8,930
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini III
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$222
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini II
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$222
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini I
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$222
Un luogo dove l'inferno sta dormendo
Mattia Novello
Painting - 180.3 x 160 x 3.8 cm Painting - 71 x 63 x 1.5 inch
$14,000
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?