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

Geometrical shapes III

Régate

Pink pop

Poésie

Aquarelle

Chomp Chomp

Ukraine, l'Urne Funéraire

You are my force

Paysage 2017 (Hawea. NZ)

Emotion

And there was light

Pastis Noir

Porteur de cœurs

L'oiseau derrière le rideau

Girl Surfer

Rouget d'origine noble dorée

The bridge

Fauna

Abstract landscape N°4

L'éveil

Profile

Vase femme à la cithare-Bleu

Secret desires

Petits bijoux

Flowers V

Woman

Unknown Soldier - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Military, Veteran, Men

Tourbillons

Rituels 1

Europe mythologie Femme

Innocence in the Fields

Cote d'Azur

Contact color - Minéral

Mujer con orgasmo

French School Portrait PS 221 L'endormie Immobile perle de bleux (Large)

Daruma

Pawn / Player

Faded glory

Ulimi wako mkuwba una faa kuenda kuenye ma shindano

Pretty

Lady with Hat

Because love cannot be bombed_

Two Seeds

Pull

Untitled sculpture

The female egg

Growing Love

Dreadlocks man

Survol des plages du mourillon

Canvas 168

Sans titre

Fougère amazone

Empreinte

In Anticipation (Based on A. Dumas's The Three Musketeers)

Dream creature

Mes soeurs iraniennes

Kaori

Les deux amis et l'oiseau

Prying Eyes

Glance II

Portrait II

Léviathan

Souvenir

Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs

Reality

Ligne de mire #4