Wooden sculpture "Snorkeler" (2023) (Original / Unique piece)
Wooden sculpture "Snorkeler" (2023) (Original / Unique piece)
Quick info
unique piece | signed | wood | painted | total size 66 x 10 x 20 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 2 kg
Detailed description
Wooden sculpture "Snorkeler" (2023) (Original / Unique piece)
The sculptor Jörg Herz creates expressively sawn sculptures. The focal point of his work is humanity in all its facets of life. Both man and woman alike, sometimes whimsical, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always with disarming honesty. The sculpture itself takes a back seat - art becomes a resonant space between the work and the viewer.
Sculpture made of spruce wood, painted with acrylic paint. Signed by hand. Figure approx. 54 cm high. Size including pedestal 66 x 10 x 20 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 2 kg.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.
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.