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.
Teppiche - Abstract, Contemporary, Painting, Woman, 21st Century,
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
‘Teppiche' Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2016 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. ...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Tapetenzunge
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tapetenzunge’ by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2017 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, trans...
Egg Tempera, Canvas, Acrylic
Schlüsselloch
By Fides Becker
Located 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 change. Fides Becker (* 1962) 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 (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at 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...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$14,933
Robe 7
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 7' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric, 184 x 159 cm, 2005 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temp...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$4,300Sale Price|20% Off
Kleiderbügel
By Fides Becker
Located 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. Fides Becker (* 1962) 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 (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at 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...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Tischgruppe
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tischgruppe' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas 50 x 65 cm, 2010 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and cha...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$11,349
Robe 4
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 4' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric 160 x 140 cm, 2005 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transi...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Schwanken
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Schwanken' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Cotton Canvas 95 x 70 cm -2009 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, t...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$2,485Sale Price|20% Off
Stuckrosette
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stuckrosette, 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...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$14,336
Robe 2
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 2' 2005, Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Cotton Canvas, 210 x 160 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and chang...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$758
H 21.26 in W 17.33 in D 1.38 in
Incredible Edible Flower Cake, Bright Still Life Food Art, Contemporary Pop Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Kitchen" - Fauvist Interior Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical depiction of the artist's kitchen by Jon Joaquin (American, b. 1944). Titled, initialed, and dated on verso. New; acquired directly from the artist. No frame, but the edges...
Canvas, Acrylic
$450,000
H 28 in W 24 in
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
Summer Peaches
Located in Fairfield, CT
Botanical subjects are my primary inspiration. I find immense joy in capturing the colors and textures of nature through still-life settings. Exhibiting them at the George Billis Gal...
Egg Tempera
$380
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in
Julia Adams, Sweet Things Happen, Original Interior Painting, Affordable Art
By Julia Adams
Located in Deddington, GB
Julia Adams Sweet Things Happen Original Interior Painting Oil, Acrylic and Ink on Canvas Canvas Size: H 30cm x W 30cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indi...
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$1,500
H 9.45 in W 7.09 in D 1.19 in
Blue Flower in Tower, Ink, egg tempera and gold leaf, illustrated architectural
By Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos
Located in Dallas, TX
"Blue Flower in Tower" is an enchanting creation by Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos, of an illustrated, dancing blue flower growing out of an architectural structure. The background i...
Gold Leaf
$227
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 0.79 in
Scallop on Tiles, Original painting, Food art, Seafood, Mediterranean style
Located in Deddington, GB
This contemporary still-life depicts a vibrant and juicy scallop on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready to be hung unfra...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,800
H 36 in W 30 in D 1 in
Krishna, Mythology, Acrylic, Tempera, Green, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Aditya Basak
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Aditya Basak - Untitled - 36 x 30 inches (unframed size) Acrylic & Tempera on Canvas ** This work will be shipped in a roll form. "Through the medium of the fantasy, Basak probes...
Canvas, Acrylic, Tempera
Versailles interiors. Acrylic on Canvas Painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Canvas, Acrylic
San Miguel
By Catherine Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist egg tempera painting by American artist Catherine Koenig created during her travels to Mexico. This work will be featured in the gallery's upcoming exhibition "D...
Board, Egg Tempera
$649
H 5 in W 20 in D 2.5 in
FOUR Gallery Wall "GEMS" - Collection #10, #12, #16, #22 - sold as set of four
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
From Michelle Thomas’ 28-piece Gallery Wall “GEMS” collection, each work included in this grouping is a singular, one-of-a-kind original distinguished by a striking interplay of blac...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$827
H 14.77 in W 35.44 in D 1.19 in
Throwing Some Shapes I, II, III Triptych, Original Naïve Still Life Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
A series of paintings exploring the dynamic and expressive shapes of pot plants. I love the way that nature expresses itself; plants often remind me of dancers, but being rooted in solid earth or a heavy pot their 'moves' seem to express an un-self-conscious celebration of life, and a contented acceptance of their earthbound limitations. Throwing Some Shapes I ,II, III by Kerry Louise Bennett...
Canvas, Acrylic