Monika Taffet (1968)

Monika Taffet

Monika Taffet is a contemporary German artist born in Transylvania (formerly Hungary; today Romania). She is a plein air painter and creates all her paintings in nature. Only finishing touches are applied in the studio. She mainly uses oil paints, which she packs and layers on the painting surface. The results are relief-like structures that make the liveliness of the leaves and grasses in the wind and the waves breaking over the edge of the picture perceptible. However, the background colour is applied comparatively thinly, which makes the vegetation in the foreground of the picture stand out even more so that her works become almost three-dimensional. Her impasto oil paintings show influences of traditional genres such as still life and landscape painting.

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Date and place of birt:	1968, Romania
Nationality:	Germany, Romania
Period of activity:	XX, XXI century
Specialization:	Artist, Landscape painter, Painter
Genre:	Genre art, Landscape painting, Rural landscape, Still life
Art style:	Realism
Technique:	Impasto, Oil, Oil on canvas