Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Pencil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 78.7x98.4in
About this artwork
The painting "Dolce far niente" is loosely based on Edouard Manet's masterpiece "Luncheon on the Grass." Unlike Manet's painting, however, all the figures in my work are nude, as in "The Judgment of Paris" by Raphael and Marcantonio Raimondi, which in turn served as the model for Manet's painting.
Markus Reiter
Austria
Markus Reiter works with painting and drawing on paper and canvas, drawing on his extensive training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He primarily uses gouache, oil, and acrylic paints, graphite, colored pencils, and spray paint. His style combines abstraction and figuration, with the non-finito—the unfinished, such as omitted figures, empty spaces, or even removed sections of the image—being a central technical element. His works reflect profound philosophical questions such as change and the pursuit of knowledge, inviting viewers to discover their own insights and emotions reflected in art. Palimpsettling—the scraping, tearing, and reworking of writing and images—is another key technique. The "erasure" or "re-creation" of an existing image symbolizes the process of change and transformation, and ultimately serves as a metaphor for humanity's search for its true self.