Picture "20, summerday VI" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "20, summerday VI" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | watercolour on Fabriano | framed | size 42 x 50.5 cm
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Picture "20, summerday VI" (2020) (Unique piece)
Watercolour on Fabriano, 2020. Signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 24 x 33 cm. Size in frame 42 x 50.5 cm as shown.
About Renée Strecker
Renée Strecker (born in 1955 in Berlin) studied at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1979 to 1983 and was a master student of Prof. Karl Oppermann. In 1985, she founded the Berlin painters' group "Kobalt".
Renée Strecker's painting can be classified as Lyrical Abstraction. Frequently recurring colour tones are blue and grey palettes. The style is delicate and powerful at the same time. The paintings themselves show an inner tension.
In 2001, the artist received a scholarship from the Office of the Federal President, and in 2003, her work was purchased by the German Bundestag. In 2009, the artist was awarded the Andreas Art Prize on the occasion of the art exhibition "Natur-Mensch".
Renée Strecker lives and works in Berlin and on Alicudi, Lipari Islands. Her works are represented in the collections of the Senate of Berlin, the German Bundestag and the Deutsche Bank Art Collection in Berlin.
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.
Paintings with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
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.