Swathes of Color

It isn't surprising that the word swathe is also used to describe broad strips of countryside, or rows of corn. How to depict a vastness of a vista filled with color, without being limited to painstakingly recreate every detail, has aided in shifting certain styles of painting. Typically associated with the looser brushstrokes of the Impressionists,large swathes of color also found a home in modern abstract art during the first half of the 20th century. In the color theory of art, color is used to evoke emotion by artists within compositions, aiding expression. But in abstract art, color is used in its most simplistic form. Thus painting with swathes of color can emote a sense of freedom, of celebrating color at its very best, in abundance. In Artsper's own selection of works, Marie Labat focuses on the relationship between man and nature in her landscapes, using color to depict the Atlantic Pyrenees. Whilst Nick Tidnam works with a studio that opens up into a garden in order to consistently be affronted by nature. It may seem futile to attempt to limit the vastness of a landscape to a canvas, but such artists know that the ability to do so lies in the use of color…

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On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so.

All that week the blizzard wind pursued us like a pack of mad dogs... I wished we had not gone to the Pole. I think I wish it even now.

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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We were by then all a little crazy with exhaustion and the great altitude twelve thousand feet—and the cold and the wind blowing luminous circles and crosses surrounding the suns, for often there were three or four suns in the sky, up there…

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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We were in for one severe shock - Teresa was pregnant…on February 14th, she went into labor. ‘I shall name her Rosa—Rosa del Sur,’ Rose of the South

Jessica Houston

Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch

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Step by step we went…We were fifteen days on the glacier…at every day’s advance more great, nameless peaks came into view…We gave names to these peaks, not very seriously, since we did not expect our discoveries to come to the attention of geographers.

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Take the place

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Black Side

Know thyself

Et la lumière fut

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Somewhere in space

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Melancholy afternoon

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Femme aux cheveux bleus sur fond ocre de Sandra Paris

Afternoon accounting

Colours from France

Monsieur

Madame

Douceur d'été

Wing

Salon aux chaises vertes

Le bouquet de Chrystèle

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Some of us are broke inside

Moving

Woman III

Let the dreams fly

Enfance II

Entrelacées

Feel the wind

Two rivers flowing

Generosity of spirit

And I was born again

Souvenirs épars

Set In Motion

Paysage

Coquelicot et Camomille

Porte de l'Ame

Photographe

Gretel

Temperance

Il passato

Curieuse

Nzuri

Ceramica #78

Puzzle

Memory

Étude de la sculpture "Madame"

Étude de la sculpture "Monsieur"

Hansel

La lutteuse mexicaine 3

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Peindre la plage en hiver

Until It Gives Way

On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so.

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One light at the mountains

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