Picture "Ha Ha Ha" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Ha Ha Ha" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | mixed media on paper | framed | size 68 x 80.5 cm
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Picture "Ha Ha Ha" (2018) (Unique piece)
Monoprint with collage and embossing on hand-dyed paper, 2018. Signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 64.5 x 77 cm. Size in frame 68 x 80,5 cm as shown.
About Mel Bochner
(born in 1940)
Mel Bochner is a US artist who was born in Pittsburgh in 1940. He is one of the most important representatives of American conceptual art and is best known for paintings in which he experiments with writing and language. His popular Thesaurus series of paintings consists of a juxtaposition of synonyms and phrases in a rainbow-colour palette.
Bochner studied painting at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and philosophy at Northwestern University in Evanston. He later taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Yale University. He received his honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
A picture in which the artist designs the motive from various materials, such as pieces of paper, wallpapers, fabric scraps, wire gauze etc. Thus, the work takes its extension into the third dimension.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.