Nick Smith

Capulets Orchard part 1

2016

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years ...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture, Framed Hand Made Paper with Gold Leafing Glover did not begin her career as an artist. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, she s...

Patty deGrandpre’s “Landlocked (Cactus, a million needles)” is an 12.375 x 16 inch unique abstract mixed media print represented on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper utilizing both print...

Original Mixed Media Figurative Painting by Cuban Painter Hector Frank. International acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank. Now, in his artistic p...

Original Mixed Media Figurative Painting by Cuban Painter Hector Frank. International acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank. Now, in his artistic p...

Janet Nelson has created a wholly original method of making artifacts using contemporary materials – painted mixed polymers and paper laminated with wood glue which are then distress...

Janet Nelson has created a wholly original method of making artifacts using contemporary materials – painted mixed polymers and paper laminated with wood glue which are then distress...

TRUCK STOP by New York Artist Barton Lidicé Beneš circa 1980 Original work from Barton Lidicé Beneš's Rubber Stamp Art series created in 1980 celebrating gay liberation and promiscu...