Picture "Marilyn Portrait" (2014) (Unique piece)
Picture "Marilyn Portrait" (2014) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | framed | size 97 x 77 cm
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Picture "Marilyn Portrait" (2014) (Unique piece)
The work presented here features Marilyn Monroe as the central figure. Russell Young is particularly interested in those moments when glamour and fame meet tragedy and emotionality.
Acrylic and enamel silkscreen with diamond dust on canvas, 2014. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 90 x 70 cm. Size in frame 97 x 77 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.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.