Picture "Butterfly and Jellyfishes" (2015) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Butterfly and Jellyfishes" (2015) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | acrylic on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 83,5 x 103,5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Butterfly and Jellyfishes" (2015) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2015, signed. Acrylic on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 80 x 100 cm (h/w). Framed in black wood shadow gap frame. Size 83,5 x 103,5 cm (h/w).
About Kathleen Knauer
The abstract works of the visual artist Kathleen Knauer, who studied at the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim, where she has been a lecturer since 2018 and prorector since 2021, do not emerge from a continuous working process, but always build up on several pictorial levels. Mostly they represent themselves but are nevertheless always in a relationship and interplay with others. The colour ground, which she never creates in monochrome, embodies a dynamic structure in itself. The expressive and complex grounds of the picture are formed by Knauer from a gestural brushwork. They make the pictorial planes clearly perceptible and give the picture a spatial depth.
In addition to numerous renowned publications and projects at home and abroad, Kathleen Knauer has been represented at international and national solo and group exhibitions since 2010.
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.