Picture "Kate Moss Superstar #3 (Kestrel Pink and Black)" (2015) (Unique piece)
Picture "Kate Moss Superstar #3 (Kestrel Pink and Black)" (2015) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | inscribed | colour serigraph on canvas | framed | size 157 x 120 cm
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Picture "Kate Moss Superstar #3 (Kestrel Pink and Black)" (2015) (Unique piece)
In 2000, Russell Young began to focus on screenprint works. These are based on photos of famous personalities and have been refined with diamond dust by the artist since 2007. "Kate Moss Superstar #3" from 2015 shows the supermodel who seems to focus on the viewer with a lascivious gaze. The photo that Russel Young uses as source material was taken by fashion photographer Kate Garner in the early 1990s before Kate Moss became famous worldwide.
Colour serigraph with Diamond Dust on canvas, 2015. Signed, dated and inscribed on the back. Size in frame 157 x 120 cm as shown.
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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 U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., 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 bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. 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 personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.