Picture "Crossing sign" (1971) (Unique piece)
Picture "Crossing sign" (1971) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | lacquer on linen | unframed | size 95 x 140 cm
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Picture "Crossing sign" (1971) (Unique piece)
Lacquer on linen, 1971, signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 95 x 140 cm.
About Axel Dick
Axel Dick, born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1935, studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Berlin and is one of the most important German representatives of geometric abstraction and Op Art.
With a trip to New York in 1965, Dick found his way to his conceptual way of working, which he pursued rigorously, with only one interruption, until the end of his life.
Axel Dick died in Braunschweig in 2006. Works by the artist are part of the holdings of the Ingolstadt Museum für Konkrete Kunst and the Linz Neue Galerie.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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.