Picture "Marilyn" (2016) (Unique piece)
Picture "Marilyn" (2016) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | partial acrylic on paper | framed | size 91 x 81 cm
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Picture "Marilyn" (2016) (Unique piece)
In his later phase of creation, James Francis Gill continues his work based on photographs that he digitally alters. The present study includes partial overpainting of the paper with acrylic. With the portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Gill revisits the theme of his early breakthrough work and expands it with the visual language of current media standards. The work, in which the artist's immediate brushstroke is reflected, is signed in the centre.
Study for a painting on paper with partial acrylic painting, 2016. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 81 x 61 cm. Size in frame 91 x 81 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.
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.