Picture "Water Lily Swimmer" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Water Lily Swimmer" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil and tissue paper on canvas | unframed | size 150 x 180 cm
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Picture "Water Lily Swimmer" (2018) (Unique piece)
Oil and tissue paper on canvas, 2018. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 150 x 180 cm as shown.
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About Simone Opdahl
"It is impulses from nature that touch me, that I process in the painting process and locate in the pictorial space. What happens during painting: corrections, overpainting, destruction, and renewal, remains a witness in the picture. I prefer a spontaneous way of painting, intentionally leaving traces that remain visible like quotations of a permanent process (...)."
Simone Opdahl paints landscapes that are on the border of abstraction. As if through a fog, we see imagined mountain ranges roaming past us, the depictions of animals appearing between textures. Opdahl gives her canvases a relief-like feel, light and shadow show movement within the picture.
The artist studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. she lives and works in Berg am Starnberger See.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.