Picture "Marilyn" (2008) (Unique piece)
Picture "Marilyn" (2008) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | painting study, acrylic | framed | size 56.5 x 41 cm
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Picture "Marilyn" (2008) (Unique piece)
Study for a painting with partial acrylic painting, 2008. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 51.5 x 39 cm. Size in frame 56.5 x 41 cm as shown.
About James Francis Gill
He is one of the first American Pop artists who is still alive: James Francis Gill, born in 1934.
The pioneer of the Pop Art movement achieved international recognition when the Museum of Modern Art New York exhibited his famous "Marilyn Tryptych" in 1962. At the 1967 "São Paulo Biennial", works by James Francis Gill were exhibited together with those by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns and Robert Indiana. The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts dedicated a retrospective to Gill in 2005.
James Francis Gill's pictures impress with their high colour intensity and strong expressiveness and preferably depict great Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly.
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.
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.