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Hand painted on paper with artist painted frame - Each work is unique and sold individually - In mint condition

Gary Hume's Window Painting (from 1000 Windows Paintings), created in 2013, is a minimalist piece that explores simplicity and the power of color fields. This artwork features a stark black square framed by a vivid yellow border, creating a bold visual contrast. The use of black in the central field absorbs light, giving the work a sense of depth and mystery, while the bright yellow frame brings a vibrant energy to the otherwise subdued composition. As part of a series of unique works, each individually hand-painted by Hume, this piece captures his fascination with color interaction and the play between light and dark, inviting viewers to contemplate the essence of form and color in a restrained, yet powerful manner.

Gary Hume (United Kingdom, 1962) is a British artist associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs) movement. Renowned for his high-gloss enamel paintings on aluminum panels, Hume's work often features bold, simplified forms and vibrant colors. His subjects range from everyday objects to abstract compositions, exploring the interplay between abstraction and representation.

Gary Hume

Window Painting (from 1000 Windows Paintings), 2013

Name: Window Painting (from 1000 Windows Paintings), 2013
SKU: 8214

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Painting

PaintingPainting is the process of applying media to a surface, using a tool such as a brush. The term refers to both the action and the resulting object. Artists use many tools to paint, such as brushes, airbrushes, palette knives, sponges or fingers and hands.

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Oil on paper

Oil on paperOil on paper is a technique that allows painters to use economical paper without needing to apply a primer before painting. Artists can combine oil paints with solvents to achieve effects similar to watercolor, such as color washes, spattering, and mingling of colors with thinned paint.

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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
- Gary Hume

Gary Hume, born in Kent, England, is a contemporary painter and is considered to be a part of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement. This movement, also known as the Brit artists or Britart movement, and consists of a wide variety of artists, many of whom graduated with Gary Hume in 1988 from Goldsmiths College. He is best known for his choice of medium, using high gloss, industrial grade paints in his works and for the every day objects he paints with them. During the 90's, Gary Hume's medium and focus shifted and he began to use high gloss, household paints instead of industrial paints and also started to use sheets of aluminum for canvases. Some of Hume's first major exhibitions included Freeze (1988), hosted by fellow Goldsmiths alum Damien Hirst, and East Country Yard in 1990. Finding meaning in the redundant, in the ordinary, in our normal, every day lives is where Gary Hume seems to have found his niche. During an interview in June, 2013 Hume describes his choice to use high gloss, high quality paints such unexciting subject matter, saying, "[everyday objects] are ordinary and I like to take things that are mundane and make them beautiful."

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