Picture "Approach of Hornets - Tatoo and I Can’t Wear Them Anymore" (2019) (Unique piece)
Picture "Approach of Hornets - Tatoo and I Can’t Wear Them Anymore" (2019) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | framed | size 65 x 65 cm
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Picture "Approach of Hornets - Tatoo and I Can’t Wear Them Anymore" (2019) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2019. Signed. Size in frame 65 x 65 cm as shown.
About Rissa
Rissa, real name Karin Götz (*1938 in Rabenstein near Chemnitz), is a German artist and professor emeritus of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2003/2007. In 1964, she adopted the artist's name Rissa, derived from the Norwegian town of Rissa.
She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1965 under Karl Otto Götz, whom she married in 1965.
Rissa's representational painting is characterized by reduction. From the mid-1960s, she developed a painting style that achieved volume not through color transitions but through individual areas of color. References to Art Informel are established through brushstrokes that break through individual areas of color.
In 2013, the K. O. Götz & Rissa Saal was opened in the Mittelrhein-Museum in Koblenz, which presents a permanent selection of works by the artist couple.
Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Museum Wiesbaden, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, the Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, the Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz and the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, among others.
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.