Picture "In the Rustle of the Leaves" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "In the Rustle of the Leaves" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | cyanotype + acrylic + ink on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 125 x 105 cm (h/w)
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Picture "In the Rustle of the Leaves" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2021, signed. Cyanotype, acrylic, ink on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 120 x 100 cm (h/w). Framed in a silver-coloured solid wood shadow gap frame. Size 125 x 105 cm (h/w).
Cyanotype:
The special printing technique cyanotype makes it possible to "draw" directly with plant material. A light-sensitive solution containing iron is applied to the image carrier and dried in the dark. The artist then covers the image carrier with materials collected from nature. After exposure to sunlight, the materials are removed, and the image carrier is washed out. Afterwards, the chemical process produces the typical blue colour in the areas that were exposed. The unexposed areas remain white or grey. Finally, the artist reworks the pictures with acrylic sprayed or painted paint and accentuates light and shadow effects in this way.
About Kathrin May
Kathrin May studied textile and surface design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, graduating as a master-class student. As a freelance designer, she creates meaningful and authentic products from scratch for well-known companies.
Her free works as a visual artist are characterised by her love and deep connection to nature. She is inspired by the infinite complexity, the reinvention and constant transformation and the perfect cycle of everything. Kathrin May is concerned with capturing the essence of nature. In her works, this results in multi-layered superimpositions, colour gradients and imprints of blossoms and leaves in various degrees of abstraction. Accidents are deliberately integrated as part of the design process. Based on this concept, Kathrin May experiments with colours, forms, structures and materials until she has found her very own truth.
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.