Picture "Baltic Sea / Ærø / Sunset" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Picture "Baltic Sea / Ærø / Sunset" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | size 80 x 100 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Baltic Sea / Ærø / Sunset" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Created in the studio from a photographic note, this picture by Ute Meyer captures the joy of sunsets on the Danish island of Ærø in the Baltic Sea. The half-set sun casts its light on the sea, changing from light yellow to orange. The stones in the water and on the beach are highlighted darkly against the light. A distant land formation can be recognised on the clear horizon line on the left, while the sky changes from a bright red-orange to a softer blue. The evening light is captured impressionistically.
Original painting 2023, signed by hand. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Size 80 x 100 cm (h/w).
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About Ute Meyer
Ute Meyer (born 1957 in Oldenburg, Germany) grew up in Husum on the German west coast. Since the 1990s, her studio has been in Flensburg on the east coast. During the 1980s, she completed a degree in art education. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the artist has showcased her work nationally and internationally at exhibitions, fairs, and galleries. Her pictures can be found among collectors both in Germany and abroad.
"One of my focuses is plein air painting. I work in my own garden or by the Danish Baltic Sea. Over the years, I have developed a method of working outdoors that allows me to finish large-format canvases in a single session while capturing the mood of the day. The constantly changing weather and light conditions influence, either delay or speed up my painting process and composition. This way of painting is about capturing the immediate impression, the mood or atmosphere of the scene in a fresh and intuitive way, similar to how a musician reads a piece of music from the sheet."
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.