Picture "You Won't Catch Him" (2003) (Unique piece)
Picture "You Won't Catch Him" (2003) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | monogrammed | dated | titled | watercolour on paper | framed | size 53 x 67 cm
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Picture "You Won't Catch Him" (2003) (Unique piece)
Watercolour on paper, 2003. Monogrammed, dated (14.3.03) and titled. Motif size/sheet size 49.5 x 63.5 cm. Size in frame 53 x 67 cm as shown.
The picture is titled in German "den kriegst du nicht".
About Norbert Bisky
Dreams and nightmares captured on canvas
"On the international art market, the people snatch the painter's bad boys made of oil out of his hand; in Germany, his work is seen in a more reserved and critical light," wrote the German news magazine Focus about Norbert Bisky in 2007. Bisky became internationally known for his paintings of blond and athletic young men, whose harmonious manner of depiction contrasts with the pictorial action. He is considered one of the most important representatives of a new figurative painting. Initially, however, his works were often misinterpreted. The New York Museum of Modern Art collects Bisky's works, as well as the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Korean National Museum in Seoul.
Bisky (born in 1970), who grew up in East Germany, was influenced by socialist realism, the art of East Germany. He was encouraged by his teacher Georg Baselitz to engage with the images of his childhood. Bisky later even became his master-class student. Further influences include the Spanish masters Francisco de Goya, Francisco de Zurbarán and Jusepe de Ribera, whom he studied intensively during his time in Spain at the Prado in Madrid. Their impact on Bisky's art-making is particularly visible in the works the artist has painted since 2010 during his "black phase". Through personal experiences of death and terror, pictorial contents and their depiction align for the first time, so that the colourful, radiant tonality of his works subside into a black palette.
In the meantime, Bisky's artistic work goes beyond painting. He increasingly integrates his painterly works into elaborate, space-specific installations. In 2013, Bisky designed the stage set for a production of the Berlin State Ballet. From 2008 to 2010, Bisky was a visiting professor at the Geneva Art Academy. In 2015, he swapped his Berlin studio with the Israeli artist Erez Israeli for three months to gather inspiring new impressions and to make a personal contribution to the exhibition "Twilight over Berlin", which commemorated the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany 50 years ago.
The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Paintings with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
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.