Picture "Wandering XVII" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Wandering XVII" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on canvas | unframed | size 100 x 70 cm
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Picture "Wandering XVII" (2018) (Unique piece)
Isa Dahl's pictures convey an alluring depth of space that reveals endless layers of glazing paint to the viewer when looked at closely.
Oil on canvas, 2018. Signed and dated on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 100 x 70 cm.
About Isa Dahl
Born in 1965
What seems to be blades of grass, feathers and plant fibres are actually dynamically applied brushstrokes with which Isa Dahl creates her biomorphic pictures. Dahl glazes layers of paint on top of each other, creating motifs on the canvas that oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Fascinatingly, she explores the similarities between abstract painting and gestural calligraphy. Each painting conveys a captivating depth of space that reveals infinite layers to the viewer when looked at closely.
The German artist studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Dahl has been awarded numerous scholarships and prizes for her works. She lives and works in Stuttgart. At the Art fair art Karlsruhe in 2016, her large-format paintings were one of the highlights.
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.