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Moon Shin Museum Stairs 1975
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,191
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
$692
Blue Simphony / Symphonie en bleue
Moon Shin
Painting - 42 x 27 cm Painting - 16.5 x 10.6 inch
$3,401
Small Maelstrom (Ref 855)
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 46 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 18.1 inch
$3,081
Simones
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Sculpture - 60 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$1,038
Mouvement n°3 (Diptyque)
Harrison Prignet
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$3,227
1955 Joueur de BANJO Player
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 59 x 50 x 0.75 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
$2,248
Superficial Cuts 8
Aleksandar Bezinovic
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,341
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
$1,095
Les comédiens dans la forêt
Charles Lapicque
Painting - 92 x 65 x 6 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 2.4 inch
$55,341
State of Being (pistol)
Chiharu Shiota
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$149,881
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
$2,882
Le patriote Ref AB122
Charles Lapicque
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$3,459
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
$3,459
Les roseaux verts 2
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$346
Les roseaux Vert 1
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$346
Et l'oiseau
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$346
Des corps II
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$346
Derrière les roseaux bleus 2
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$346
Les roseaux verts 3
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$346
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
$1,153
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
$922
Sculpture Moon Shin TOTEM 1975
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$2,191
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
$346
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
$1,038
Le bruit du monde
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,845
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.