Picture "The Breathing Plain" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "The Breathing Plain" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 120 x 160 cm
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Picture "The Breathing Plain" (2023) (Unique piece)
Mixed media on canvas, 2023. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 120 x 160 cm as shown.
About Fintan Whelan
The works of the Irish painter Fintan Whelan (born in 1967) are characterised by their highly experimental approach. Whelan mixes raw silk powder and fibres with pigments, which are then in turn bound with oils and emulsions to create amorphous, fluid textures and configurations.
"My way of working has become more meticulous through constantly adding or applying new materials like silk fibres or testing new techniques to push my process to its limits. This continuous experimentation is a key element to my new works. My objective is to develop my work to a new level, to strive for a new vision and an echo of life as I experience it," reports the artist.
Fintan Whelan lives and works in Ireland and Germany.
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.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.