Picture "Bella Italia" (2022) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Picture "Bella Italia" (2022) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
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original painting | signed | oil on MDF board | unframed | size 24 x 30 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Bella Italia" (2022) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Original painting 2022, signed by hand. Oil on MDF board. Unframed. Size 24 x 30 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Anke Gruss
Moments of light and atmosphere
The German painter Anke Gruss focuses on light and its interaction with the environment in her work. In strong colour tones, she atmospherically traces the effect of natural as well as artificial light in everyday scenes.
Gruss always concentrates on depicting the impression of a moment, not on the realistic documentation. Just like a fleeting memory, the objects become reflective surfaces that reflect the light and create a somewhat diffuse atmosphere within the scene. In order to create this pictorial impression, Gruss increasingly dissolves the details and contours of her motifs into spaces of colour and light or simply just blurs the scenery entirely into a colourful aura. "I want to conjure up the light in my paintings, I want poetic, dramatic, enchanting things to emerge in my pictures. I apply the paint layer by layer and thus let the light into my paintings," she says.
Gruss seeks out the moments when she can capture the power and effect of light in the most diverse places: In street scenes, with musicians on stages, at car and motorbike races, on the beach and by the sea, in landscapes, in views of buildings or close-ups of flowers. She often has a personal connection to the situations and places she paints, such as in her cycle of paintings in Iceland and Norway.
Gruss works with oil, acrylic and watercolour on canvas. Depending on the characteristics of the light situation, she decides which of these techniques she will use. From time to time, she also incorporates scriptural elements and collages into her works.
The qualified art therapist and art teacher, born in 1970, has been working as a freelance artist since completing her studies. In addition to numerous exhibitions, she has worked in animated film and theatre character designs for various television and film productions, as a museum educator and as a teacher in painting at various institutions. She also offers painting trips and workshops.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.