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
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
$2,465Sale 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
$747
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
$195
H 5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
GEM #23, Gallery Wall "GEMS" Collection, Black, White, Box, Mini, Tiny, Original
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
This Gallery Wall “GEM” is a one-of-a-kind original artwork created to bring a bold pop of personality into your space. With its striking black-and-white contrast and sculptural swee...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$632Sale Price|20% Off
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.125 in
Dancing With The Sun - ON Sale, Artist is Relocating
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
"Dancing With The Sun” is a luminous jewel of a painting. Vivid warm, Spring colors dance this canvas creating a visual harmony that feels both regal and refreshing. This contempor...
Canvas, Acrylic
$195
H 5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
GEM #5, Gallery Wall "GEMS" Collection, Blue, Green, Pink, Box, Mini, Tiny
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
This Gallery Wall “GEM” bursts with vibrant color and sculptural movement, bringing a playful yet sophisticated energy to any space. Bold swaths of turquoise sweep across the surface...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$375
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
$930
H 42 in W 6 in D 1.5 in
Bounce II - Perfect for entryway, narrow, colorful, tall, teal
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
Stunning addition to shorter walls or small sections of wall on either side of a door opening! “Bounce II” is a vibrant, vertical abstract painting by contemporary artist Michelle T...
Canvas, Acrylic
$224
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
$150
H 5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
GEM #13, Gallery Wall "GEMS" Collection, Pink, Orange, Box, Mini, Tiny, Original
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
This Gallery Wall “GEM” glows with warm, uplifting color and fluid movement. Layers of vibrant orange, golden yellow, blush pink, and soft cream sweep across the surface, accented by...
Cotton 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
$195
H 5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
GEM #2, Gallery Wall "GEMS" Collection, Blue, Green, Box, Mini, Tiny, Original
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
This Gallery Wall “GEM” captures a fresh burst of color and movement in a compact, sculptural form. A sweeping gesture of hand-shaped manganese blue paint rises from the surface, lay...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic