Picture "Freedom" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Freedom" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 64 x 84 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Freedom" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2020, signed by hand. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Framed in black solid wood frame. Size 64 x 84 cm (h/w).
About Birgit Horn
Birgit Horn is an internationally exhibiting artist from near Hamburg.
As a freelance artist, she addresses questions in her realistic oil paintings, examining them from different perspectives in her series of pictures. Her paintings are the result of her feelings and reflections on the current societal situation. Questions such as "What can we do differently as human beings?", "What can we change as a community?" and "How do we treat our world?" are at the centre of her artistic exploration.
Before creating each painting, she develops scenes, often with symbolic motifs, serving as a foundation for her oil paintings. The motifs manifest themselves on the canvas in a realistic and detailed manner. In her art, she uses surrealistic elements, deliberately employs contrasts and colour breaks, integrates screen printing elements, and manipulates proportions to capture the viewer's attention.
Moreover, she designs and builds sustainable objects and pieces of furniture from recycled materials and has appeared several times on German television as an upcycling artist.
Her art has been shown nationally and internationally, including in the USA (Miami, New York), South Korea (Geoje), Poland (Wagrowiec) and Germany (Wiesbaden, Cologne, Hamburg, Lunenburg, Dortmund, Stuttgart).
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.