Fides BeckerSchwanken2009
2009
About the Item
- Creator:Fides Becker (1962, German)
- Creation Year:2009
- Dimensions:Height: 37.41 in (95 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:
Fides Becker
Fides Becker developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present and personal and collective images. Fides Becker studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M., at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank or the Stichting Beeldende Art Amsterdam. Fides Becker lives in Frankfurt and Berlin. She develops and pursues her painterly strategies in the large-format illusionistic picture space with a subversive play of light and color. In her pure painting on canvas, she reflects everyday objects, places or rooms from other epochs with a mysterious patina, which are culturally connected in our society. She inhales them with emotions and lends these dead objects an independent life. In this way, they receive something essential, and at the same time, morbid ambivalence, which makes the penetration of space and time experience in our present-day reality. Thus, Fides Becker inspired the old Jewish cemetery at the Börneplatz in Frankfurt and the Jewish cemetery in Berlin Weißensee, where the eternal peace of the dead can not be disturbed and nature protects itself over the graves, to their large format golem landscapes. The figure of the Jewish legend spreads in Central Europe. While the variants of the Berlin Spiegelsaal in Clara’s Ballhaus or the Loge evoke glamor and glory of former times, it moves with the almost romantic midnight blue Rhineland-Palatinate dacha under trees and the two leather canapés in the Contre Jour of an English gentility club in private spheres. Certainly, man plays a central role with his feelings in the oeuvre of Fides Becker. Even though, in her recent works, she is more concerned with the recording of human traces, following her studio scholarship at the Cité International des Arts Paris, that decisive transformation in her artistic work from 2010 to today has been accomplished: for she turned from the collage technique and pure painting, and since then renounced the human figure entirely in her pictures. Nevertheless, she is still concerned with human sensations such as longing, desire, fear, but also lust and passion, which she wants to make sensual in her pictures. In doing so, she does not pursue any new themes, but she is seeking a new approach to her well-known motifs - the beds, landscapes and interiors.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Morongo Valley, CA
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- StuckrosetteBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CAStuckrosette, 2010, Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric, 40x35 cm, 2.600 € INSTANTDREAMS Gallery presents Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventio...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Canvas, Egg Tempera
- SchlüssellochBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CA'Schlüsselloch' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 33 x 54 cm, 2017 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and c...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsEgg Tempera, Acrylic, Canvas
- KleiderbügelBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CA'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. F...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsEgg Tempera, Acrylic, Canvas
- KleiderbügelBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CA'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. F...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Egg Tempera, Canvas
- KleiderbügelBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CA'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. F...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Egg Tempera, Canvas
- KleiderbügelBy Fides BeckerLocated in Morongo Valley, CA'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. F...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Egg Tempera, Canvas
- The well read girl, reading- 21st Century Contemporary Figure PaintingBy Martin KooleLocated in Nuenen, Noord BrabantMartin Koole The Well Read Girl, reading 120 x 120 cm ( framed 124 x 124 cm) Acryl on canvas Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very h...Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Cotton Canvas
- Design Study of Wild Pink & White Flowers on a Yellow & Turquoise BackgroundBy Angela WakefieldLocated in Preston, GBDesign Study of Wild Pink & White Flowers on a Yellow & Turquoise Background, by Contemporary British Artist. Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches Angela Wake...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsPaint, Acrylic, Cotton Canvas, Canvas
- Rêve surréaliste (Surrealist dream)Located in PARIS, FROil painting by artist Shuo Liu. It shows a surreal dream world. In this work, there is a room with green walls. Through the window and the "floor", we c...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil, Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
- Rigging the Line / figurative realism Chinatown hyperreal paintingBy Lynette CookLocated in Burlingame, CALynette Cook’s shadow-centric urban scenes — executed using exceptional concentration, patience, and skill — pay homage and provide clues to the individual lives of those who inhabit...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsCotton Canvas, Acrylic
- Side Track 17Located in New York, NYEarth, air, water, and fire are the center subjects of my art. I live in New York City-it is close to the ocean, and I’ve developed a deep affinity for the sea, which has also evoked sentiments in me for what has across on the other side of the ocean. Majestic mountains in Europe and the U.S. those I’ve seen with spectacular ridgelines or forms are what I want to pay homage to. The sky’s ever-changing atmosphere, fire’s brilliance, and all the energies embodied in nature are the most things that I am in awe of. —- Leigh WenCategory
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsCanvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
- "Awakening", Expressive and textured large oil painting, bold colors, BedroomBy Ekaterina PopovaLocated in Dallas, TXThis is a stunning elegant, colourful and textured oil painting. Ekaterina Popova's series titled "In the Bedroom" captures the light subtleties and f...Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
MaterialsCotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic