Picture "Walker at Lake Constance" (2013) (Original / unique piece), framed
Picture "Walker at Lake Constance" (2013) (Original / unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | oil and acrylic on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 45 x 55 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Walker at Lake Constance" (2013) (Original / unique piece), framed
The painter Monika Taffet infuses her landscapes creations with a unique atmosphere through relief-like structures: she applies the oil and acrylic paints in sometimes several centimetre thick layers, creating a three-dimensional picture surface on the canvas. Taffet blurs all the contours and details of the pictorial objects in this ocean of impasto paint application, similar to impressionist painting. The pictorial impression of colour, light and spatial depth makes Taffet's painting an exciting and, at the same time, sensual experience.
Original painting 2013, signed. Oil and acrylic on canvas, stretched on a stretcher frame. Framed in a white solid wood frame with shadow gap. Size 45 x 55 cm (h/w).
About Monika Taffet
The impasto oil paintings of Monika Taffet, born in 1968 in Transylvania (formerly Hungary; today Romania), show influences of traditional genres such as still life and landscape painting. The artist with Hungarian-German roots attended an art high school before moving to Germany in 1986. There she studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin under Professor Klaus. In 1996, she even became a master student.
She is a plein air painter and creates all her paintings in nature. Only finishing touches are applied in the studio. She mainly uses oil paints, which she packs and layers on the painting surface. The results are relief-like structures that make the liveliness of the leaves and grasses in the wind and the waves breaking over the edge of the picture perceptible. However, the background colour is applied comparatively thinly, which makes the vegetation in the foreground of the picture stand out even more so that her works become almost three-dimensional.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, whereby a distinction can be made between peasant, 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-galant painting became prominent while in Germany the bourgeois character was emphasised.
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.