Picture "Floating Skies" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Floating Skies" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 150 x 200 cm
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Picture "Floating Skies" (2022) (Unique piece)
Oil, silk powder, pigments on canvas, 2022. Signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 150 x 200 cm.
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About Fintan Whelan
The works of the Irish painter Fintan Whelan (born in 1967) are characterised by their highly experimental approach. Whelan mixes raw silk powder and fibres with pigments, which are then in turn bound with oils and emulsions to create amorphous, fluid textures and configurations.
"My way of working has become more meticulous through constantly adding or applying new materials like silk fibres or testing new techniques to push my process to its limits. This continuous experimentation is a key element to my new works. My objective is to develop my work to a new level, to strive for a new vision and an echo of life as I experience it," reports the artist.
Fintan Whelan lives and works in Ireland and Germany.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic production techniques.
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.