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The Four Elements

The Four Elements

€1.560,00 EUR
€1.560,00 EUR
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Artist

Jacqueline Schreier

  • Original artwork, 4-piece polyptych, 2023
  • Not frame

Size

  • 40 W x 40 H x 2 D cm
  • 15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.78 inches

Medium

  • Mixed Media : Acrylic, Paper, Paint, and Wood on canvas

Shipping

  • A reinforced box.

Authenticity

  • The artwork is signed by the artist Jacqueline Schreier and comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist..

Description

In The Four Elements, Jacqueline Schreier invites the viewer into a delicate universe where nature becomes a poetic visual language—magical, imaginative, and infused with the subtle sense of humor that characterizes much of her work. The piece emerged, she explains, during a moment of reflection on the fragility of the planet; from that thought came the desire to create a vital homage to the four elements that sustain life. Drawing on her background in illustration and her affinity for simple materials, she shaped a minimalist artwork that feels almost innocent yet carries depth and refined aesthetic sensitivity.

The polyptych consists of four panels measuring 20 × 20 × 2 cm (approx. 7.9 × 7.9 × 0.8 in) made with acrylic, paper cutouts, glue, and small wooden sticks. These modular pieces can be arranged as a square —40 × 40 × 2 cm (approx. 15.7 × 15.7 × 0.8 in)— or installed in a horizontal or vertical line, depending on the space. Although Schreier proposes a composition, she encourages collectors to find their own arrangement, a gesture that echoes the shifting and adaptable nature of the elements themselves.

Each panel interprets one of the four elements through simple yet expressive forms: air with white clouds and golden paper birds; water with layered waves and leaping golden fish; earth with beige fields and a tree built from wooden sticks; and fire, represented by a sun on a warm ochre background, the only panel that breaks the white palette and becomes the energetic focal point of the series. The artwork blends innocence with sophistication, transforming humble materials into a poetic story about natural balance.

The Four Elements is ideal for collectors seeking a versatile, luminous piece rich in meaning. It works beautifully in entryways, reading areas, contemporary living rooms, hallways, and any interior that wishes to incorporate an artistic touch that is gentle, sustainable, and emotionally resonant, fully aligned with the aesthetic vision of And-Art Works.

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    • full insurance coverage.

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Artist

Jacqueline Schreier

Jacqueline Schreier (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1936) is a multidisciplinary artist whose career combines illustration, painting, sculpture, and textile art. Trained at the Zurich School of Fine Arts, her professional path began in illustration and animation, developing across countries such as Canada, Italy, Norway, Venezuela, and Spain. For more than four decades, she has lived in the Sierra of Madrid, where she has consolidated a personal and ever-evolving artistic language.

Her style ranges from figuration to lyrical abstraction and minimalism, in a continuous search for new forms of expression. Schreier works with diverse techniques such as dyes on silk and paper, acrylic on canvas and wood, and has also explored weaving and looms using wool and organic materials for abstract textile works. In sculpture, she combines ceramics, metal, and wood with a playful and expressive approach, where humor and fantasy play a central role.

Critics have highlighted how Schreier integrates the playful and the dreamlike in her work, creating imaginary landscapes where the sun, the moon, forests, animals, and other natural elements become protagonists of magical and narrative worlds. This fusion of humor, nature, and abstraction transforms her art into a unique space of aesthetic exploration.

Throughout her career, Jacqueline Schreier has taken part in over 40 solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Spain, and other countries, presenting her work in renowned institutions and galleries such as the Galerie of the Zurich Cantonal Bank. Her international recognition and the coherence of her style establish her as a reference within contemporary art.

At And-Art Works, audiences can discover an artistic production that bridges tradition and contemporaneity, marked by a strong creative vocation and a tireless spirit of experimentation.

Magazine: Jacqueline Schreier: from Illustration to Visual Freedom

Jacqueline Schreier website

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