Picture "Lantern flowers - Red and Black" (2017)
Picture "Lantern flowers - Red and Black" (2017)
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limited, 50 copies | numbered | signed | colour serigraph on museum board | framed | size 87 x 87 cm
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Picture "Lantern flowers - Red and Black" (2017)
Donald Sultan reinterprets the classic still life by reducing fruits and flowers to their bare outlines and sharply contouring them. The abstract, two-dimensional works impress with their imposing size and the strong contrasts between the luminous motif and the mostly black or white background.
Original colour serigraph, 2017. Edition: 50 copies on museum board, numbered and hand-signed. Motif size/sheet size 81 x 81 cm. Size in frame 87 x 87 cm as shown.
About Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan was born in North Carolina in the USA in 1951 and is one of the most important contemporary US painters, sculptors, and printmakers. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in 1975. Like many of his contemporaries, he embraces Pop Art.
Sultan was largely inspired by baroque floral still lifes and Andy Warhol's legendary "Flowers Series" to devote himself to the subject of the floral still life. Clear outlines and hard colour contrasts characterise Sultan's silhouette-like flower paintings, for which he has developed an idiosyncratic technique: as a rule, plywood and plaster serve as a painting ground for tar and bright enamel colours. This produces unmistakable works whose vitality and elegance also unfold in his colour serigraphs.
To this day, Donald Sultan is the youngest artist to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art in New York at the age of just 37.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the US and the UK - completely independently of each other - severed their ties with all the traditions of artistic creativity and helped modernity to achieve a new art movement.
In the US there were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With flash colouring, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective they created new provocative works. thanks to the famous exhibition "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi are to be considered as the true pioneers of Pop Art in England. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.