Picture "Winter Landscape" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Winter Landscape" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | watercolour on handmade paper | framed | size 47.5 x 57 cm
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Picture "Winter Landscape" (2022) (Unique piece)
Watercolour on handmade paper, 2022. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 30 x 40 cm. Size in frame 47.5 x 57 cm as shown.
About Hans-Jürgen Gaudeck
Hans-Jürgen Gaudeck's watercolours are a mixture of reduction and opulence, they are capturing the immediacy of the moment but also the memory of distant days.
Landscape motifs and architecture, but also people in the midst of other people, are just some of his typical motifs. Gaudeck manages to direct our gaze to what is essential to him and to fade out the present for a moment. Although – or because – he is not a graduate of an art school, his works are precisely, in terms of his visual language. Furthermore, he artfully composes his works in colour and arranges them with sensitivity for forms, for what was once just a blank canvas.
Paintings with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
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.