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

Dream Girl

Not Even Trying

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

Cypress by the coast

Song of summer irises

Summer's orange bloom

Sunny sunflowers

Narcissus of spring

Mi amor

The glass ball and the light

Kleine Kostbarkeiten - little treasures

Two marbles

Die Reise

Über den Dächern der Stadt

Die Stadt am Fluss

Frühling in der Schlossallee

Winter lightning

Roses in summer garden

Intimité de la salle de bain

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

Liberty

Villa Balbianello

Bound by embrace

Together we are unbreakable

Bound by strength, we stand united

Garden under the sea

Osiris, Anubis, Horus

Offrande du Pharaon suivi du Dieu Thot

Encre #2

The travelling cat

In the calmness of the nature

Jebena

Kaneshie lorry station

Ménina Pop

Exaltation

Entre deux mondes

Marilyn was here 8

Marilyn was here 7

Marilyn was here 11

Marilyn was here 14

Carnaval

Oiseau totem d'abondance

Le coin des farceurs

Poulpes Tantriques

Interprétation du Cycle de Reproduction et du Flux Migratoire

Fugu

Hanafuda

Thoughts IV