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

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. Signs are for him an intermediary b...

This original drawing by Patrick Blake measures 14in x 11.5in and ships float mounted in the pictured simple black custom frame. "Though I work in many different mediums, drawing ...

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...

This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...

Ink on 19th Century Paper If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...

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...

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...

"Ripple" (2021) by SarahGrace Oil and water-based ink relief print Ink on Paper Block Print, Hot Pink, Orange, Peach Color Gradient, Linework, Pattern W...

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...

Ink on 19th Century Paper If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...