Rich and colorful figurations

Pigments were invented about 40,000 years ago and since then have been used by artists as a visual element to form works of art. From the use of red in ancient Egypt to blue being more sought after than gold in the middle ages, the use of color and its value has shifted through the ages. This has led to the subsequent color theory in art. It was the German poet Jonathan Wolfgang Goethe who first developed a theory about color (1810). According to him, colors are composed of both light and shadow. Later, the Impressionists would disregard the classic visual elements of painting and indeed figurations and focus on the essence of color, using colors that compliment and capture light rather than use dark colors for shadow. At the turn of the 20th century Vassily Kandinsky created a grid for colors, which associated emotions and sounds with 10 colors. In our selection of works the use and admiration of color is still being explored with Guive Khosravi's works, high in vivid colors are juxtapositions of images mixing well-known characters and images whilst Robert Combas, who in the early 80s invented a new figurative painting (Free Figuration), uses color to manipulate daily life.

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Rich and colorful figurations

Growth Series 1-3

Dream Girl

French School - PS 241 Noyée dans Monet Impressionnist

French School Blue Kurt Cobain

Portrait Continental Elvis - French school

PS 122 Living Yugen - French school Portrait

PS 234 L'amour tombe des nues - French school Portrait

French School - PS 19 Frida Kahlo

Portrait Thom Yorke

Portrait black Elvis

Flowers II

Flowers I

Vermilingua kiss

Storyteller

Shared moments

Inner dialogue

True self

With my sweet cherries

My green apple bowl

Before the mirror

Behind green eyes

Sisters

Bound by embrace

Together we are unbreakable

Bound by strength, we stand united

Osiris, Anubis, Horus

Offrande du Pharaon suivi du Dieu Thot

Ménina Pop

Exaltation

Entre deux mondes

Carnaval

Thoughts IV

Secret Look III

Secret Look II

Secret Look I

Thoughts III

Thoughts II

Beauty V

Party’s over

Lovelorn on a gloomy afternoon

My pet bull

My Friends with Red Hats

Amour discret

Et nous partons, allez, viens

Dans le silence de la savane

Au milieu des roseaux

Sur le tapis du vent

Portrait inspiré de la passion du Christ (1)

Portrait Madonna XL - French school

Portrait PS 124 Sweet Heaven or a season in Hell

Vénus, Adonis, N°6

Red

Pink

Hello:)

Green Portraite

Portrait

Portrait of a Woman "She Knows"

Anne of Austria (Based on A. Dumas's The Three Musketeers)

Pez

Silent Disco

Les muses

Quand passent les éléphants roses

Hilda

Ifa

Gourmandise

Princesse de la jungle

Gueule cassée

Dans un parfum d'émotions