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Abstract 10 - Abstrait 10
Gina Vor
Painting - 78.5 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 30.9 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$903
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![Fine Art Drawings, Stairs museum Collection MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, Moon Shin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1195701_1_grid.jpg)
Stairs museum Collection MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$1,072
![Painting, Biology 8 | Aquarelle Abstraite, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/775575_1_grid.jpg)
Biology 8 | Aquarelle Abstraite
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$169
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Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$677
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Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$621
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Not There 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$621
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Cosmic Beasts
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$621
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Moon Shin MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea, Column Sculpture 1972
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$3,272 $1,636
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1977 Moon Shin Série de Sculptures Noires MMCA MUSEUM SEOUL Collection
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$3,272
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Moon Shin 9 Black Sculptures 1978 MMCA MUSEUM SEOUL Collection
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$3,272
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Moon Shin Two Black Sculptures 1978
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$3,272 $1,636
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Paris Blue Sculptures 1972
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 inch
$3,949
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Superficial Cuts 8
Aleksandar Bezinovic
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$6,206
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Farandole - 15 lithograhies signées
Hans Hartung
Print - 40.7 x 53 cm Print - 16 x 20.9 inch
$16,924
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Spontaneous Lines
It is unsurprising that, historically, black as a color has been linked to somberness, melancholy and madness, but the history of this color is so much more nuanced than that. From the thick black strokes creating spontaneous lines in Edouard Manet's Music in the Tuileries (1862) to Anish Kapoor gaining the rights to Vantablack (the darkest shade of black at the time) in 2016, the use of black line has captured the artist's obsessions for centuries. Pierre Soulages used black line as a way to provide texture to his paintings, playing with how black and light interact upon the canvas. Whilst Mark Rothko revered the simplicity of color and line, and their rightful place in the history of abstract art, as a link between the emoting artist and their expression on the canvas – regardless of whether that emotion was dark or not. Line is the ultimate factor of definition and declaration, thus, unsurprisingly it is used instinctively by the artist. In Artsper's own selection of works, the likes of Moon Shin and Gérard Escougnou have been noted for their use of spontaneous lines. In fact, Escougnou uses black lines to emit vibrations from his work, with white used as a void or a moment of silence. Lines can cause the viewer to become introspective and reflective, a way for the viewer to relate to a work and the artist's reasons for creating it.