Paul Leon Felix Schmitt Art

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Still Imagined" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape with leafless trees and saplings together in the dark Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who uses black and white paint to explore the perception of space and beauty. Carpenter's formal education is in science - he holds a MS in Neuroscience from UCSD and a BS in Psychobiology from UCLA - and he brings this background into service when making art. His paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and aesthetics, examining among other things how the depiction of light can impart realism and convey emotion. Like his paintings bridging art and science, Carpenter's career has similarly straddled the two fields, and he has taught subjects ranging from neuroscience and environmental science to photography and painting. Artist Statement As a painter, I am particularly interested in how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. Painting, as with any visual art, is obviously dependent on light. But painting can also have a more specific connection in that the accurate depiction of light is crucial for achieving realism. Realism in paintings largely arises from the portrayal of depth - perceiving a painting as being realistic is equivalent to seeing its subject as existing in more than just the two dimensions of the picture plane - and one of the mechanisms by which humans perceive depth is through lighting cues. Light creates features such as shading, shadow, and contrast that tell us about the three-dimensional arrangement of our surroundings, and artists often use these features to impart realism to paintings. Light also factors in to the emotional impact of paintings. The differential illumination of our surroundings can evoke different moods, as evidenced by the influence sunsets, candlelight, and darkness can have on us. Such effectssuggest that our perception of light could be tied to primitive instincts, with light signaling factors such as shelter, nightfall, and warmth, which were once crucial for survival. The depiction of light in paintings...

Jim Beckner's (US based) "Roadway" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a busy city street filled with the bright patterning of cars and passerby. About the Artist: ...

Early 20th Century view of barges at a riverbank by French artist Georges Planes. The painting is signed bottom right. The painting is very nicely framed in a blue painted wood frame...

Jim Beckner's (US based) "Intersection" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting an urban scene below the El 1's tracks with patterned shadows. About the Artist: (Born 1970...

David Shingler's (NC based) "Moab Plateaus" is an oil painting that depicts the vast desert dotted with grasses leading to the towering plateaus of Moab...

"Mountain Waters, Romans 1:11-12" (2025) by Thomas Kegler is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a mountain river with serene waters. About the artist: Thomas Kegler’s ...

Catalogue raisonné reference: Publisher: Tvorchestvo (2015) Language: English Russian ISBN-10: 5000280512 ISBN-13: 978-5000280515. Shipping from the gallery in Switzerland with a ce...

David Grossman's (US based) "Autumn Confetti" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a purple-colored sky broken up by white aspen trees with sparse yellow leaves and col...

David Griffin's beautiful original impressionist oil landscape "Face of the Ancients" (2024) is framed at 27 x 23 inches and is ready to hang. Artist Biography and Statement: "Paint...

Seth Winegar's (US based) "Feeding Time" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a landscape with a white barns and cows at feeding time. Bio/artist statement: Seth Wine...

Frame size 38x44 cm. Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Josep Marfa Guarro was a Catalan painter specialized in landscape painting. Among Josep Marfa Guarro's work are numerous waterc...

Jim Beckner's (US based) "Beaches 10" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting a beach scene with colorful striped umbrellas shading lounging beach goers. About the Artist:...