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

Yellow play

Red Play

Al otro lado del espejo

TTD-24

CCT05-23

Out of balance

CC2P02-23

3FD-17

Rise

Think big keep it low luck will come

Chant lumineux

Il futuro

Il presente

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

Birds 019

Birds 020

Ceramica #96

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

Accumulate

Give (clipping series - understand)

World reflected

A balancing land

There remains and irreducible parity

Inextricably Linked

Around us and within us

Holding up and attracting the earth

Action which enables us to project our forces into the outside world

Between them

Polar opposites and complementary relationships

The impossible abyss which separates the two sides

Of a difference in which the differences are inseparable

Both above and below

Heart world

The shadow economy of extraction

The sky was a doorway

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.

Le sécateur

Vae soli

Warm

La toile dans la toile

Colors ice

CET-23

Midnight Blue

Todo lo que pueda Amar

Le alte mura

Struttura del tempo