Picture "Seek and Ye Shall Find" (2016) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Seek and Ye Shall Find" (2016) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | acrylic on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 85 x 105 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Seek and Ye Shall Find" (2016) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2016, signed by hand. Acrylic on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 80 x 100 cm (h/w). Framed in natural coloured solid wood shadow gap frame. Size 85 x 105 cm (h/w).
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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.
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.