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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Swathes of Color

L’Empereur (The Emperor)

L'Éther (The Ether)

Le Triomphe (The Triumph)

L’Impératrice (The Empress)

La Papesse (The High Priestess)

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3FD-17

Dubai The City of Lights, 1

Rise

Think big keep it low luck will come

Chant lumineux

Il futuro

Il presente

Console Kuna

Console Tulipe

Together

Blend together/

Support

If Held To The Light

Leave It Be

Beyond Recall

To hang in between

Entre ligne et lumière

Lui

I don't care (clipping series - Be conveyed)

Pray

Soho

New York 03

Birds 019

Birds 020

Ceramica #96

This Mountain

Susana en el baño

Beneath the Night

Migration

The Flaws That Cut Through

I don't care 2 (clipping series - Be conveyed)

Just (clipping series - Be conveyed)

Deliver

Continue

Rest

Le crâne vase

3BVFV-24

Colours mountains III

ST 004

Red Forest

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Accumulate

Give (clipping series - understand)

One bird at the forest

There is a snake skin on the mountain

One table at the forest

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Abstract 003

Abstract 002

Insula II

Pink mountain

Forest XXIII

Forest XXIII

Mountains K003

One home on the table

Mountains K004

Mountains K001

Lights at the mountains

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