Picture "Amaryllis V" (2015) (Unique piece)
Picture "Amaryllis V" (2015) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | framed | size 83 x 103 cm
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Picture "Amaryllis V" (2015) (Unique piece)
Flowers are a recurring theme in Bouet's work. His floral arrangements seem like explosions of colour, in which individual elements are only hinted at and thus leave space for the viewer's imagination.
Oil on canvas, 2015. Signed. Size in frame 83 x 103 cm as shown.
About Christoph Bouet
Bouet likes to lay it on thick - his pictures are visual colour battles in which the relief-like structures seem almost haptic. The artist uses the paint as a material; it takes up to two years for it to dry completely. As a plein air painter, he realises his raw, original landscapes directly on site, in the spirit of the Impressionists. He spatulated the oil paint directly from the tube in thick layers onto the canvas lying on the ground. Seemingly calm landscapes become stirring pictures whose motif only becomes apparent at a distance. His floral arrangements seem like colour explosions in which he captures light stimuli, moods, and colour sounds.
Christoph Bouet was born in 1974 in Halle an der Saale, Germany, and discovered his love of painting already at an early age. When he was 13, his parents took him to the renowned Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. At the age of 14, Bouet passed the qualifying examination.
Speaking of his early passion, he says: "I'm married to painting - it's my childhood love."
Works by Christoph Bouet can be found in the Würth Collection and the Hasso Plattner Collection, among others.
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.