Picture "Now or Never" (2017) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Picture "Now or Never" (2017) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | size 100 x 80 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Now or Never" (2017) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Original painting 2017, signed. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Size 100 x 80 cm (h/w).
About Simone Westphal
Simone Westphal lives and works as a freelance artist in Potsdam and Berlin, Germany. She studied art in Cologne and fine arts at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. During her three-year stay in the USA, she learned various felt and paper techniques in New Mexico, which she now applies to her sculptural works.
The human being is the main subject of her paintings and sculptures - even her landscape paintings often focus on the human being as a reference point. The human being also creates the centre of content within the imagery. Simone Westphal is interested in "the in-between", the initially invisible, the background of life stories and personalities. Westphal is her protagonist representative and embarks in a quest for meaning in each picture. This analytical interest in people becomes clear with her series of "Regenbilder" (eng: "Rain Pictures"). Rain, which covers the glass or canvas in drops and streaks, blurs the view.
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.