Picture "Tee off (Golf)" (2016) (Unique piece)
Picture "Tee off (Golf)" (2016) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 50 x 70 cm
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Picture "Tee off (Golf)" (2016) (Unique piece)
This painting deals with the popular sport of golf; the protagonist of the depiction, the golfer on the left edge of the picture, is shown in a sweeping movement at the moment of the tee shot. The radiant green in all its nuances takes up most of the picture's composition and thus also seems like a painterly experiment with colour.
Oil on canvas, 2016. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 50 x 70 cm.
About André Krigar
André Krigar (born in 1952) studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and, along with Christoph Bouet and Ben Kamili, belongs to the new school of German plein air painters. His paintings depict everyday scenes using impasto and light brushstrokes that are brought directly onto the canvas – confusingly colourful, realistic and so expressive, typical of Krigar's style.
Since 1992, Krigar has belonged to the artist group of the North German Realists. Together they engaged in various painting campaigns, for example on board of the German Navy ship the Gorch Fock, at the Hamburg Airport, in the Federal Council Building of Germany called the Bundesrat or in the trenches of the First World War at Hartmannsweiler Kopf. André Krigar was awarded the Rembrandt Painting Award in 2008.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.