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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Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.

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Balance Series #10

Blanc XXVI

CBS-16

Je t'ai gardé dans mon cœur

Tanger

La barque

San Romano

Enfantillages (série)

Then & now

Les déchirées, B-Side

El Mago, and Náufragos inminentes Diptych. Textile Art

Umbilical, El Mago and Naufragos inminentes, Triptych

Process no. 6

London, lithograpie originale

Passages #812

Formscape no. 45

Formscape no. 46

Walls & Façades Series #8

Cinéma, lithographie originale

Untitled Triptych. From the series Partituras

Portrait

Path Series #5

Path Series #4

Flor de neu

Les Roches Blanches

Balance Series #12

The rosegarden

Europa. From the Cartographies series

Planisferio, Europa and Asia Triptych, From the Cartographies series

Balance Series #9

Planisferio. From the Cartographies series

Urban Landscape Series #6

Codes esthétiques 2380

Codes esthétiques 1127

Marquage 8912

Marquage 1811

Âme rêveuse

Wabi-Sabi Bowl

Blanc X

Blanc XVI

Blanc XII

Blanc XI

Step by step

La vie en rose

Emotions

White landscape III

Spirituality

Madame rêve

On the move

Résonance

C1T3T-24

Figure marbre

TTD-24

3T-20

CC2P02-23

Red Play

Étude de la sculpture "Nzuri"

If Held To The Light

Ceramica #96

Migration

The Flaws That Cut Through

C3RR1R02-24

This Wayward Floating Body (Antarctica)

Vae soli

Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.

CET-23