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

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

Water lilies N°1 inspired by Monet

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

French School - PS 19 Frida Kahlo

Ménina Pop

Portrait Thom Yorke

Portrait black Elvis

Au commencement était l'oiseau

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

Flowers II

Flowers I

Vermilingua kiss

Storyteller

Liberty

Villa Balbianello

Sans titre

The world turns in our hands

Black horse

Mouette rieuse

Gipaète barbu

Tricolor galloping horse

Agape

Tamanoir, hommage à Dali

Buste pur sang lusitanien

Jebena

Kaneshie lorry station

Exaltation

Entre deux mondes

Marilyn was here 8

Marilyn was here 7

Marilyn was here 11

Marilyn was here 14

Poulpes Tantriques

Interprétation du Cycle de Reproduction et du Flux Migratoire

Fugu

Hanafuda

Thoughts IV

Secret Look III

Secret Look I

Thoughts III

Thoughts II

Beauty V

Stand by

Mystic Lisa

Party’s over

Cottage

Lovelorn on a gloomy afternoon

Mon grimoire de couleurs

L'Andalouse

Amour discret

Et nous partons, allez, viens

Dans le silence de la savane

Au milieu des roseaux

Sur le tapis du vent

Twilight