Picture "Magic Spell" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "Magic Spell" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on canvas | unframed | size 170 x 135 cm
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Picture "Magic Spell" (2023) (Unique piece)
Seifert's informal way of working does not drift into the meaningful physical self-flagellation that characterises many abstract-expressionist works of art history. Instead, from her pictures, one can discern an unbridled joy in the painterly exploration of colour.
Winnie Seifert seems to "tame" the colours and shapes that literally seem to burst out of the canvas. The presented work "Magic Spell" functions, as the title suggests, like a magic incantation.
Oil on canvas, 2023. Signed and dated on the back. Size stretched on stretcher frame 170 x 135 cm as shown.
About Winnie Seifert
Winnie Seifert (born in 1987)
The Berlin-born painter Winnie Seifert works beyond the mainstream. She expresses herself unflinchingly in a brilliant pictorial language that probably best be classified as Art Informel. The artist persistently works on painterly-informal subjects.
She usually connects and disintegrates polychrome forms, surfaces and structures to form cheerful-looking shapes and organisms on large-format canvases with light backgrounds. Seifert's gestural way of working does not drift into a meaningful, physical self-flagellation that is inherent in many abstract expressionistic works of art history. Her paintings rather reveal joy in the painterly exploration of colour.
In 2018, an exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Dresden was dedicated to the graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and 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.