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Beast in Landscape
Since the colour green reminds us of all its different shades in nature, painters have almost found it NOT employable in semi-abstract expressions. It seems to lack depth and has symbolically little to say. Unlike the primary colours. They have many meanings. For example, Blue can be mysterious, expresses the infinite, and symbolizes Heaven. Yellow […]
Suburb of Saintes
Visiting family in the city of Saintes, France – this was the view from a window, showing the outskirts of the city in May. Oil on canvas board / 40.6 x 55.8 cm / 1990
Wrecking Crew
As for the subject I do not remember how this came to mind but has to do with housing projects when rightly or wrongly a tenant has to move out. As to the method of Hard Edge paintings, refer to image Cliff Structure. Oil glazing on canvas / 88.9 x 78.7 cm / 1965
Rising Earth over Moon
From the Series THE ELEMENT: CREATION. Modeling Paste, Acrylic w. air brush over canvas / 1969
Roses in Vase
This is my last more detailed representational painting for the next twenty years. Oil on canvas board / 45cm x 40cm / 1958
Jeanine, my Wife
Married two years, first painting of my gracious wife. Oil on canvas board / 40 cm x 26 cm / 1959
Sophie Hieger
Portrait of a young friend of mine, Sophie Hieger / Jucker, interested in the arts. Brown pencil on paper / 1952
Three Kings
The three Kings in their magical appearance at Bethlehem, according to the Gospels of the New Testament. Oil on Canvas / 121 cm x 101 cm / 1966-67 /
Jeanine Remembered
My wife gave me most of my life the means and opportunity to follow my artistic path and inspired my creative side until 2007. This portrait, although painted two years later, done to console myself but more so out of gratitude. Oil on canvas / 45.5 x 35.5 cm / 2009
Group of Pines
Somewhere in a remote northern forest on a misty day. Oil on canvas / 60.9 x 76.2 cm / 2007
Impromptu
Over ten years ago, amidst painting representational for a decade, I sketched lines that would begin at any edge of the page, change direction, and overlap many times in different directions, in a non-conflicting way. By creating areas of different shapes and sizes, it was intriguing no matter how many times I did this exercise […]
Nude -Sitting – Vienna / 53
In this study the lines and tonal accents become minimal as poems are not descriptive. (Vienna Academy) Pencil drawing on paper / 1953
Rain Forest
A number of my paintings may appear abstract but are in fact representational. Seen from a birds-eye view; a wide-ranging landscape. Acrylic on Canvas / 55.8 x 60.9 cm /2000
Imaginary Mountains
Landscape of rough mountains, only in my mind. Pencil drawing / 20 cm x 25 cm / 1989
Summer Reflection
A landscape with vague growth and objects filled with warm and misty light. Oil on canvas / 76.2 x 76.2 cm / 2003
Diagonal
No comment – Oil on Canvas – 1967
On Rainy Days
Comical, like in comic strips, carpet-bombing with no damage. Acrylic on Canvas / 83.8 cm x 101.6 cm / 1967
Fairy Castle
Our dreams like seen in a looking-glass that emerge every so often from dark, uncertain places. Oil on Canvas board / 76 cm x 63 cm / 1959
Blue Fruit – Still-life
Neo-cubistic approach to Still-life. Oil on Wood Panel / 30.4 cm x 43.2 cm / 1964
Exit
Sometimes much of darkness around us, however, it is invigorating to see at the end of the tunnel a way out. Acrylic on Masonite / 124 cm x 101 cm / 1966
W. A. Mozart / Copy
Loving Mozart’s music, the unfinished portrait by the painter Lange appealed to me. There is in my mind a very natural, reflective moment in Mozart’s personality that I attempted to copy. One can assume, while posing, he was filling the time by composing. Oil on canvas board / 50.8 x 40.6 cm / 1988
TRIO INTERMISSION
Piano, Violin and Cello have a rest during the concert hall Intermission. They contemplate opinions of which the audience is not aware. Acrylic on Canvas / 76.2 x 101.6 cm / 2003
Jeanine and Joseph
To some extent an old style Self-portrait with pallet + brush, yet with a living room setting and a window facing the garden. A strange choice was to have my wife behind me in a picture on the wall, as if it was someone not anymore around. Indeed, like a premonition, a year later she […]
Study – Vienna / 53
After eight years of drawing figures (or anything for that matter) my interest lay in eliminating the obvious reality. First to concentrate on the essential of the object and second adopt my own reality. In all those studies over the years, I have never had in classes the urge to adapt any of the forms my classmate exercised. (Vienna […]
Message (Vision)
In the Vision is the Message, without words. Oil on Canvas / 112 cm x 81 cm / 1962
Society and the Unexplored
Has perhaps a twofold meaning: One, the virtual expansion of land. Two, the other expansion of the mind. Acrylic on Canvas / 46 cm x 66 cm / 1967 / Sold
Kolob Canyon (Utah) USA
Spectacular rock formation. Acrylic on Canvas board / 40.6cm x 50.8 cm / 2002 / sold
Forest Impressions
If it were not for the darkness, the shapes and filtered colours of a forest and its lucidity can remind one of a stained glass window. It is suggested that the tall trees of a forest grove can feel like a natural cathedral. Acrylic on canvas / 91.4 x 76.2 cm / 1968
City Laundry #1
From the Series “Laundry”. In narrow European streets the laundry would hang outdoors to dry. Oil on Canvas / 96 cm x 81 cm / 1966
Lake in Britain
Another cultivated landscape that came to my attention, so pastoral and different from Canadian or American lake views. Oil on canvas / 60.9 x 80. 2 cm / 1993
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Kiss to you and all tout Family. Jacques Toulouse France
So wonderful to view your art, Joseph. We are long time fans of your work!
Dear Sandra, thank you so much for you gracious comment pertaining my Website.
Joseph
délicieux – wonderful – echt stoark…. 🙂
herzliche Gratulation zu all den optischen Genüssen + spannenden Geschichten,
viele Grüße aus der Steiermark,
mit großem Dank,
Michi
Did he know Joan wishire martel?
I am not sure, would have to ask my sister?