Picture "Pavement Artist", framed
Picture "Pavement Artist", framed
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 299 copies | numbered | signed | reproduction, Giclée print on handmade paper | framed | size 58 x 77 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Pavement Artist", framed
Leonhard pays homage to the greats of art history. The painting depicts the "pavement artist" creating Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew" from 1599. This 21st-century picture artfully quotes the famous work by Caravaggio. The viewer takes part in an art dialogue spanning 400 years, in which Leonhard enters into conversation with his fellow painter Caravaggio, ironically shattering the torpor of museum dignity.
Reproduction of a coloured drypoint as a colourful Giclée print on handmade paper. Limited edition of 299 copies, numbered and signed by hand. ars mundi Exclusive Edition. Sheet size 54 x 73 cm (h/w). Framed in a silver solid wood frame. Size 58 x 77 cm (h/w).
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About Leo Leonhard
1939-2011
Leo Leonhard was born in Leipzig, Germany. He studied German language and literature in Marburg and afterwards painting and graphic arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. For many years he taught s as a professor of drawing and illustration in Mainz.
He became internationally famous for his numerous book illustrations, which – such as his highly acclaimed "Faust Cycle" – went far beyond providing a graphic accompaniment to the narrative plot. Leonhard drew and commented, his illustrations liking the great classics to the present. This was also the case with the works in his homage cycles, which were created in recent years (oil paintings, but also drawings and etchings).
Leonhard paid homage to the greats of art history with humour. For example, there is an artwork where Joseph Beuys observing a daliesque hare striding along on large stilts ("Beuys and the Hare") or a homage à Piero della Francesca in which his work is threatened to be covered over by a craftsman with a large roll of paint ("Rollover Piero"). And there is the "pavement painter", under whose skilful hands Caravaggio's "Vocation of St. Matthew" of 1599 was created.
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Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, with distinctions between rural, bourgeois, and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly and gallant painting became prominent, while in Germany, a more bourgeois character developed.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.