Picture "NY East River I" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "NY East River I" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on cardboard | framed | size 42 x 52 cm
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Picture "NY East River I" (2023) (Unique piece)
Oil on cardboard, 2023, signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 30 x 40 cm. Size in frame 42 x 52 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Wolf Bertram Becker
Undoubtedly, Wolf Bertram Becker's work is linked to the early avant-garde movements. The painting of Paul Cézanne, who strove with his art to transform what he experienced into something visible but also the colour field painting of Mark Rothko, comes to mind while looking at Becker‘s works of art. The German artist from Weimar loves strong colour contrasts which, in combination with an expressive style, translate wandering landscapes and travelled cities into original artistic reality. Whether it is a clear light on a snow-covered mountain peak or the captivating clash of a reflecting water surface and the historic Palazzo in Venice.
Becker succeeds in capturing the atmosphere of a place or the mood of a time of day, even in his abstracted painting style. In doing so, the artist starts with countless sketches and preliminary studies and processes three-dimensional settings, especially landscapes and architectures, according to his own conception of space until he finally brings them onto the two-dimensional canvas.
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.