Acrylic, mixed media and digital paintings

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I discovered acrylic paint for myself in 2007. Before this I used oil colors and watercolors, sometimes combined with gel pens and ink pens. I paint on paper, canvas and since 2009 on wood panel.

Since Winter 2010 I use metals and gems on paintings.
In summer 2010 I made my first epoxy painting.
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In January 2011 I started making digital paintings.
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In 2012 I started using painting knives
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In fall 2012 I started experimenting with various kinds of inks.
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In April 2013 I started making digital mandalas

"Construction on a purely abstract basis is a slow business, and at first seemingly blind and aimless. The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that he can test colours for themselves and not only by external impressions."
Wassily Kandinsky, Ueber das Geistige in der Kunst-Concerning the Spiritual in art, 1912

Monday, June 10, 2013

fire and water

digital painting
prints at
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/fire-and-water-wolfgang-schweizer.html

Thursday, June 6, 2013

ink paintings, fractal paintings, digital paintings

Thursday, May 23, 2013

the morning

acrylic and digital painting
prints at
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-morning-wolfgang-schweizer.html

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

chromatic chord

digital painting
prints at
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/chromatic-chord-wolfgang-schweizer.html

Thursday, May 16, 2013

the storm

digital painting
third one from the series "metamorphoses"

Bifrost

digital painting, 4125x3300px, 300dpi
"In Norse mythology, Bifröst About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (Bifrost in Scandinavia) or sometimes Bilröst, is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. Both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda alternately refer to the bridge as Asbrú (Old Norse "Æsir's bridge").

According to the Prose Edda, the bridge ends in heaven at Himinbjörg, the residence of the god Heimdallr, who guards it from the jötnar. The bridge's destruction at Ragnarök by the forces of Muspell is foretold. Scholars have proposed that the bridge may have originally represented the Milky Way and have noted parallels between the bridge and another bridge in Norse mythology, Gjallarbrú. (wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifröst

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

the maelstrom

the maelstrom, a photo by Wolfgang Schweizer on Flickr.

digital painting, 2400x3000px, 300 dpi
second one from the series "metamorphoses"
prints at
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-maelstrom-wolfgang-schweizer.html

abstract art-an excerpt from wikipedia

Some approaches towards abstract art drew connections to music. Music provides an example of an art form which uses the abstract elements of sound and divisions of time. Wassily Kandinsky, himself a musician, was inspired by the possibility of marks and associative color resounding in the soul. The idea had been put forward by Charles Baudelaire, that all our senses respond to various stimuli but the senses are connected at a deeper aesthetic level.

Closely related to this, is the idea that art has The spiritual dimension and can transcend 'every-day' experience, reaching a spiritual plane. The Theosophical Society popularised the ancient wisdom of the sacred books of India, China in the early years of the century. It was in this context that Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint and other artists working towards an 'objectless state' became interested in the occult as a way of creating an 'inner' object. The universal and timeless shapes found in Geometry: the circle, square and triangle become the spacial elements in abstract art; they are, like color, fundamental systems underlying visible reality.

The Bauhaus

The Bauhaus at Weimar, Germany was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius.^[12] The philosophy underlying the teaching program was unity of all the visual and plastic arts from architecture and painting to weaving and stained glass. This philosophy had grown from the ideas of the Arts and Crafts movement in England and the Deutsche Werkbund. Among the teachers were Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Theo van Doesburg and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In 1925 the school was moved to Dessau and, as the Nazi party gained control in 1932, The Bauhaus was closed. In 1937 an exhibition of degenerate art, 'Entartete Kunst' contained all types of avant-garde art disapproved of by the Nazi party. Then the exodus began: not just from the Bauhaus but from Europe in general; to Paris, London and America. Paul Klee went to Switzerland but many of the artists at the Bauhaus went to America.

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