Picture "Birdie and the Beast" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "Birdie and the Beast" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | charcoal drawing with pastel on handmade paper | framed | size 77.5 x 61.5 cm
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Picture "Birdie and the Beast" (2020) (Unique piece)
Charcoal drawing with pastel on handmade paper, 2020. Signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 59.5 x 43 cm. Size in frame 77.5 x 61.5 cm as shown.
About Dan Pyle
Born in 1954
Dan Pyle is no longer an unknown artist in the USA since he has already exhibited his works in numerous galleries and has been awarded several prizes.
With his exceptional attention to detail, Pyle creates graceful charcoal drawings in a photo-realistic style. They convince with a refined play of light and shadow. In addition to black-and-white photography, the artist has been influenced by Jan Vermeer and William Turner and their use of light. In terms of motifs, the human body is at the centre of Pyle's art. For whose movements and poses, the former dancer has developed a sense by intuition. In addition to the body, Pyle uses motifs from everyday life, which he shows in selected extracts.
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.