Picture "Passers-By (48)" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Passers-By (48)" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 75 x 105 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Passers-By (48)" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2023, signed by hand. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 70 x 100 cm (h/w). Framed in natural-coloured solid wood shadow gap frame. Size 75 x 105 cm (h/w).
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About Ruth Bussmann
"After taking my own photos of people I observe on streets and squares, I start working on the picture. Most of the time, I paint rear views of people walking or standing. There is no indication of where they come from or where they are going. The space surrounding them consists only of areas of colour. Formally, I am interested in the communication of colours and the composition of figure and space. I am interested in reduction and abstraction. The colour space is pure emotionality and can offer the viewer a surface for projection." (Ruth Bussmann)
The German artist Ruth Bussmann (born in 1962) initially worked freelance after training as a graphic designer. From 1992 to 1994, she studied Fine Arts/Painting at the Kunstakademie Münster under Professor Jochen Zellmann, and from 1994 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Professor Beate Schiff, where she became a master student in 1996 and received the Academy Diploma in 1997.
In 1998, she was nominated for the 9th European Festival Arte Viva, Italy, and was honoured with the Art Prize of the Sparkasse Bayreuth in 2001. Her works are exhibited at national and international art fairs, art associations, and museums and are included in public and private collections.
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.