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The iron flat building
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 122 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$830
Carefree silence
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 77 x 36 x 0.2 cm Painting - 30.3 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
Fragrant shadow
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,000
Specchio magico
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 80 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,936
Poisson et muscadet
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$996
Tout de bleu vêtue
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$996
Verdi Riflessi
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 125 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 49.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,102
Sunny winter day
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,400
Fiori nel campo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,438
Flowers of the East
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 48 x 64 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Voli soppressi 2
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 125 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 61 x 0 inch
$2,213
Orizzonte degli eventi
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 49.2 x 0 inch
$2,213
La mère et l'enfant
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,438
Chaudoudou
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
Tre Barche Riflesse
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 95 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,992
Beauté
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,051
Al Mercato delle spezie
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$2,102
Fiori nel campo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 70 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,191
Green flowers L
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,422
17 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,766
Le soleil et la paix
Sergio Moscona
Painting - 63 x 23 x 2 cm Painting - 24.8 x 9.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,434
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 04
Benoît Singy
Painting - 79 x 54 cm Painting - 31.1 x 21.3 inch
$1,106
Gammes Matinales Mai 2022 - 06
Benoît Singy
Painting - 70 x 50 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,106
Gammes Matinales Mai 2022 - 05
Benoît Singy
Painting - 76 x 50 cm Painting - 29.9 x 19.7 inch
$1,106
A source of happiness
Rémy Demestre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,987
Récolte du café près de la lagune
Luis Alvarado
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,328 $1,102
Ligne Rouge
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$861
Balade printaniere
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$862
Bambou
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$862
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?