Picture "Wall flowers 15" (2008)
Picture "Wall flowers 15" (2008)
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limited, 190 copies | titled | dated | signed | colour serigraph | framed | size 70 x 64 cm
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Picture "Wall flowers 15" (2008)
Original colour serigraph, 2008. From a portfolio of 35 screenprints. Edition: 190 copies each, titled, dated and signed by hand. Motif size/sheet size 61.5 x 54.5 cm. Size in frame 70 x 64 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan was born in North Carolina in the USA in 1951 and is one of the most important contemporary US painters, sculptors, and printmakers. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in 1975. Like many of his contemporaries, he embraces Pop Art.
Sultan was largely inspired by baroque floral still lifes and Andy Warhol's legendary "Flowers Series" to devote himself to the subject of the floral still life. Clear outlines and hard colour contrasts characterise Sultan's silhouette-like flower paintings, for which he has developed an idiosyncratic technique: as a rule, plywood and plaster serve as a painting ground for tar and bright enamel colours. This produces unmistakable works whose vitality and elegance also unfold in his colour serigraphs.
To this day, Donald Sultan is the youngest artist to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art in New York at the age of just 37.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.