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Untitled II
Aleksandar Bezinovic
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,269
L'attaque du Sénat par la division Leclerc
Charles Lapicque
Painting - 116 x 89 x 6 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 2.4 inch
$53,675
New York City Cultural Institutions, from the New York, New York portfolio
Robert Motherwell
Print - 76.2 x 57.2 x 0.1 cm Print - 30 x 22.5 x 0 inch
$3,243
Mouvement n°3 (Diptyque)
Harrison Prignet
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$3,130
Moon Shin Museum Stairs 1975
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,125
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$671
Blue Simphony / Symphonie en bleue
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$3,299
Small Maelstrom (Ref 855)
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 46 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 18.1 inch
$2,963
1958 Oiseau Bird
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 75 x 54 x 0.75 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0.3 inch
$1,062 $531
1952 Paris Portrait
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 45 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,062
Le patriote Ref AB122
Charles Lapicque
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$3,355
1979 Chevaux Horses
Chen Chin
Painting - 110 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
$8,387 $4,193
State of Being (pistol)
Chiharu Shiota
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$145,371
Too much ribbons for a birthday
Harrison Prignet
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 100 x 4.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,796
Infrablue
Vincent Abadie Hafez a.k.a Zepha
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Untitled II (1)
Aleksandar Bezinovic
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,269
Les comédiens dans la forêt
Charles Lapicque
Painting - 92 x 65 x 6 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 2.4 inch
$53,675
White and Black 2 (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 108 x 78.5 x 2 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Pastel Dreams 3 - Pink Abstract (Abstrait Rose)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$895
Untitled from Artist Against Torture
Antoni Tapies
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,566
Famille Family MMCA Museum Seoul Collection
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,181
Sculpture Moon Shin TOTEM 1975
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,125
Yellow Abstract Diptych, Diptyque Abstrait Jaune
Gina Vor
Painting - 39 x 58 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
$335
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.