Picture "Marilyn Hollywood (Tempest Silver and Black)" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Marilyn Hollywood (Tempest Silver and Black)" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | inscribed | colour serigraph with Diamond Dust on canvas | framed | size 157 x 120 cm
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Picture "Marilyn Hollywood (Tempest Silver and Black)" (2018) (Unique piece)
The large-format work offered here shows Marilyn Monroe as the central image figure. The artist is particularly interested in those moments when glamour and fame meet tragedy and emotionality. The works are a brooding and sometimes brutal celebration of characters and events.
Colour serigraph with Diamond Dust on canvas, 2018. Signed, dated and inscribed on the back. Size in frame 157 x 120 cm as shown.
About Russell Young
The Briton Russell Young (born in 1959) first became known with portrait photographs of famous music artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross and Björk, before celebrating success as a director of over one hundred music videos in the heyday of music television. In 2000, living in New York, he began to focus on silkscreen works. These are based on photos of famous personalities and have been refined by the artist with diamond dust since 2007.
His works can be found in numerous museums and the private collections of Barack Obama, David Bowie, David Hockney and Marc Jacobs.
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.