Picture "Torvid" (2019) (Unique piece)
Picture "Torvid" (2019) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on MDF | size 55 x 55 cm
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Picture "Torvid" (2019) (Unique piece)
Oil on MDF, 2019. Signed on the back. Size 55 x 55 cm.
About Justine Otto
Justine Otto was born in Poland in 1974 and studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 1996 to 2003 under Professors Angermann and Krebber. She became a master-class student in free painting. A scholarship abroad enabled her to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.
The central theme of her works is adolescents and their emotional world. The actions of her principally female protagonists are usually enigmatic. Even facial expressions and gestures do not provide any information about the scene depicted. Instead, they reinforce the uncertainty of the viewer. Basically, her works refuse to be easily interpreted. The vagueness that opens up space for interpretation is what makes her paintings so appealing.
Otto has already been awarded numerous prizes and honours for her young oeuvre. Her works are part of private and public collections, including the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
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.