Skip to main content

Unframed Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

to
10,199
15,084
4,502
3,368
1,203
1,001
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
217
1,417
12,922
10,603
130
173
359
511
641
1,157
1,179
1,141
885
594
149
5,499
4,782
3,491
2,133
481
351
293
202
199
190
136
85
50
31
13,334
10,752
960
11,968
7,170
6,265
4,245
3,638
2,801
2,691
2,119
1,566
1,497
1,219
1,052
874
873
697
662
616
531
499
478
13,008
10,701
10,560
5,733
5,354
794
387
279
279
232
10,648
8,530
12,025
10,493
Frame Included
Willem de Kooning, (Reclining Female Nude) A Special Gift For His Dear Friends
Located in San Francisco, CA
With such fondness, 20th-century artistic titan Willem de Kooning gifted this charcoal sketch on paper to his close East Hampton friends Roger and Lucia Wilcox...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Floral Still Life with Tulips and Irises in Gouache on Paper Finely detailed still life by Charlotte Siemers (19th Century). Several flowers are shown in a lush bouquet. Flo...
Category

1860s Rococo Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Giovanni Lavezzari (1817-1881) - Late 19th Century Watercolour
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th Century watercolour view of St Mark's Basilica in Venice. A gondola drifts past in the foreground. The artist has signed to the lower right corner and the painti...
Category

Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

The Benefit Gala
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Watercolor

Untitled 601 - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Blue Hunter Green Teal, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes in indigo, bright blue and dark hunter green and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a teal grayish blue background. Sig...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Sweetie Pie, Cyanotype, Flowers, Floral, Blue, Botanical, Work on Paper
Located in Riverdale, NY
Sweetie Pie is a Cyanotype by Cynthia MacCollum. It is 30x22 on archival paper. It is currently unframed. It is a beautiful botanical artwork filled with a range of blues. MacColl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper

Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir taking tea in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire. circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
Category

18th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gold

Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour - Traditional Geisha
Located in Corsham, GB
This early 20th century watercolour & gouache study depicts a beautiful Japanese Geisha wearing a luxurious silk kimono, adorned with delicate embroidery and hand-painting. Every par...
Category

Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Splash Of White - 5"x5" - Artwork On Paper, Delicate Flowers, Botanical Art
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Splash Of White - This original artwork on watercolour paper captures a loose, expressive arrangement of delicate white flowers in a glass vase. Layering of acrylic and oil pastel wi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Sketch for L'Âne bleu, unique work, signed
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Sketch for L'Âne bleu stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) pastel and charcoal on paper 18 7⁄8 x 24 in. (48 x 61 cm.) Executed in 1954 ...
Category

1950s Symbolist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel

Old Town Nice Back Street Houses Antique French Impressionist Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Town, Nice Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994) signed lower corner watercolour on artist paper painting : 16.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection in the South of Fr...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

French Watercolor of Château d'Azay-le-Rideau with Riverside Details and Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Château d'Azay-le-Rideau with Riverside Details and Boat by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...
Category

Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Street Car 01, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This is one of my urban landscape :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Original 1970's French Abstract Composition with Dense Geometric Patterns
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020) Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020. He quickly gained recognition for his talent and his work, exh...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Peaceful Backstreets Of French Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on paper mounted in a card frame size: 25.5 x 21 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed - wi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work. Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9 A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper,...
Category

Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Iris
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Iris Watercolor on paper, c. 1920 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent, slight surface dirt Image/Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches Allen was trained in Boston...
Category

20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

IRIS ROW - Still-life Painting of Flowers in Field - Oil on Arches Oil Paper
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper

Mythological combat scene with Roman soldiers on horseback.
By Virgil Solis
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and brownish black ink on grayish-cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 8 inches (165 x 175 mm), irregular hexagonal sheet with margins. Some archival repairs along the top sheet edge, scatt...
Category

16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Laid Paper, Pen

Miniature Watercolor Paintings of Bristol Cathedral and School from Canons Marsh
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Miniature Watercolor Paintings of Bristol Cathedral and School from Canons Marsh by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measu...
Category

20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Vogue - Original Ink and Tempera by Fortunato Depero - 1929 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower left: “Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. In 1929, Fortunato Depero realized some proposals for internal illustrations of t...
Category

1920s Futurist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Tempera

Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed paper size: 25 x 19.5 inches Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French orig...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Oil

A heron fishing – Edo School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and watercolor on fibrous Japon paper laid down to period cream laid paper, 6 x 7 1/2 inches (155 x 190 mm). Minor toning and some insect damage on the mount, painting itself rem...
Category

Mid-19th Century Edo Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper

Nude - Pen on Ivory Paper by Fausto Ghia - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia. Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication. The state of preservation is very good. Included a Passep...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pen

Abstract geometric composition with hints of the female body.
Located in Firenze, IT
Abstract geometric composition with hints of the female body Date: Circa 1970 Medium: Tempera on thick cardboard Dimensions: H 64 cm x W 50 cm approx. Description: This abstract geo...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Tempera, Illustration Board

Lull (Tonalist Style Landscape Drawing of Country Forest by Sue Bryan)
Located in Hudson, NY
Romantic, tonalist style landscape drawing by Sue Bryan charcoal and acrylic on book pages on wood 8 x 10 inches Hangs flush to the wall, with nail notch on back Signed verso Clean, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic

'Kneeling Nude', American Modernist Graphite Figural Study
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "M. Decker" for Michael Decker (American, 20th Century) and created circa 1975. An elegant graphite and india ink figural study showing a young woman kneeling an...
Category

1970s Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Ink

British Impressionist Painting Bridge Behind Fishing Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 11 x 14.75 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Dark Green Field, Signed Pastel on Paper by Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dark Green Field Oliviero Masi Italian (1948) Date: 1980 Pastel on paper, signed lower right Size: 17.5 x 17.5 in. (44.45 x 44.45 cm)
Category

1980s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

French Watercolor Painting of “Le Village de Pêcheurs” at Le Canon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor Painting of “Le Village de Pêcheurs” at Le Canon by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed Si...
Category

Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

"Just a lemon"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings dedicated to a summer period. This artwork called "Just a lemon" is done with oil ...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Paper

Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957). She continued her stu...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fauvist Shipyard
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and bold shipyard by an unknown artist. Presented in a new cream mat. Paper size: 10.25"H x 14.25"W; Mat size: 13"H x 18"W
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s. Charcoal on paper. Good Conditions. The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s. He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Original French Abstract Study of a Horse and Figure in a Stable
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Abstract Study of a Horse and Figure in a Stable Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014) Medium: Watercolor on paper Size: 12 (Height) x 14.75 (Width) Signed...
Category

20th Century Academic Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres Head in Hand May 1, 1937 Charcoal on Paper 25"x19", unframed $1250 Signed and dated in charcoal top right *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, India Ink

The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1958. Hand signed and dated lower right. Very good condition.
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Gold Rush Town Columbia, California Landscape by Lillie Heebner
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful figurative landscape watercolor painting of Columbia, California, showing two men in cowboy hats. By Lillie Eesther (Hillman) Heebner, a Monterey Bay area artist. Signed "L....
Category

1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 7.25 x 9.5inches Delightful early 20th century F...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Duchándome. Nude watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome, by Celso Castro From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, ink, and pastel archival paper. NUDES 2D Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W 2018 Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Watercolor painting Winter berries
Located in Zofingen, AG
A watercolor painting with bright viburnum berries under snow caps. Saturated tones, multifaceted composition, large format (38x56cm) - the watercolor painting with berries under the...
Category

2010s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Pink Rose, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This flower painting from my garden :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

King's College Cambridge River Cam 1920s Art Deco Jazz Age watercolour art
Located in London, GB
Anonymous King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground 51x63.5cm Watercolour c. 1920s A fine, and large, view of King's College. The...
Category

1920s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bunny Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
002 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Bunny Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category

2010s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Nature Morte
Located in Belgrade, MT
This colorful lithograph is part of my private collection. It is a limited edition , 1 print available, signed and numbered 25/150. It is in very good condition. Vibrant and colorful.
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Fresh spring bouquet " (small acrylic expressionist floral artwork on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary colorful artwork celebrating spring features a bouquet of fresh flowers of red, white and green colors. This artwork belongs to my “Floral” series which is full ...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Coastal View of Cap Ferret
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Coastal View of Cap Ferret Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 22.5 (height) x 19.25 (wid...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Fine Late 19th Century Watercolour - Lucy
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and detailed watercolour portrait in the realist style, entitled 'Lucy, Early Period' from an inscription to the reverse. The artist has chosen to depict the sitter in profi...
Category

19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Vanesco, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original charcoal drawing on paper by James Shipton My works are heavily influenced by the art work of Degas and Gustav Klimt. My desire is to capture the beauty of the female huma...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

Alphabet of Geometry 41. From The Alphabet of Geometry Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The series Geometric Alphabet is part of my series Geometric Abstract, in which the abstract game is used in the form of asemic writing with geometric shapes. Here Peters recreates h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Pen

Fauvist Color-Field Landscape, Autumn Leaves.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Fauvist Color-Field gouache and chalk on paper landscape by G Ricard. The painting is not signed but was acquired from the atelier of the artist. There is another painting o...
Category

Late 20th Century Color-Field Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Neoxpressionist / Organic painting, Soil on Hahnemühle paper, Brown.
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Arte Povera Abstract Paintings

Materials

Organic Material, Paper, Varnish

Portrait of Woman- Original Watercolor by Madeleine Sellier - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is a beautiful artwork realized by Madeleine Sellier. Blue watercolors. In very good condition. Hand signed on the lower margin of the plate. Mounted on a card...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Gold Flora Shadows Magnolia - Metallic Botanical Cyanotype Painting Flowers 2023
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical cyanotype painting in watercolor, gouache, India ink, gold pigments and tea-toned cyanotype on cotton watercolor paper, meticulously detailed flowers a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pigment, Tea

Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Recently Viewed

View All