Brian Daly

Consumables, Contemporary Acrylic Ink on Paper, Geometric Abstract, Framed

2022

'Piercing Shafts' Original artwork, framed ready to hang _________________ Yucca leaves: lances and swords, flashing shafts of sunlight through the piercing forms, a dance of loyalt...

This acrylic and ink painting on paper by Marko Kratohvil is a explosion of red, black white and grey colors painted with energetic gestural movements. Large concentric circles form...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a thin Blond wood frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

This unique work of ink on paper is framed in a black frame with Anti Reflective glass. It is currently on exhibition at the Hearst foundation building in Manhattan as part of the Ar...

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...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a thin blond wood frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...