WORD - PAINTINGS
PIET LEUTSCH
22 paintings on Arches paper; 2 woodblock prints on Washi paper.
Inspirational works of fine art modifying letters of Western alphabets.
Unique compositions offering food for thought.
Single one-of-a-kind originals
hand painted artist quality roll paper, 12" - 24" wide or fabric, 36" and wider
Original artist made prints
proofs and editions, hand printed Washi paper
High quality reproductions
paper 12" - 48" wide
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Word-painting
'EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY'
Japanese saying
Original, acrylic and tempera on paper, 40 x 22 and 44 x 15 inch
Word-painting
'AGE'
'Age ... is a question of mind over matter.
If you don't mind it doesn't matter.'
Leroy Robert 'Satchel' Paige, American baseball player, 1906 - 1982
Original, Acrylic on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 15 x 44 inch
version 2
'AGE'
'Age...is never an excuse to stop living'
Burt Goldman, The American Monk
Word-painting
'ALL IS ONE'
Ancient wisdom, confirmed by contemporary science
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'WHO LOOKS OUTSIDE DREAMS
WHO LOOKS INSIDE AWAKES'
C.G.Jung, 1875 - 1961
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 15 and 42 x 19 inch
Word-painting
'MERCI' (UN GRAND MERCI)
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE'
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 22 and 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE'
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
Original, acrylic and tempera on paper, 30 x 11 inch
Word-painting
'THANK YOU'
Ten thank you's to the universe
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 30 inch
Word-painting
'POWER OF LOVE '
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 30 and 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'POWER OF LOVE VS LOVE OF POWER'
From 'When the power of love overcomes
the love of power the world will know peace'
Jimi Hendrix, 1942 - 1970
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 26 inch
Word-painting
'LETTING GO'
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'LETTING GO'
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 30 inch
Word-painting
'JOY'
Joy of life, joy of being
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 30 inch
Word-painting
'HAPPY'
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'BEING VS HAVING'
From'Power versus Force', David R.Hawkins, MD, PhD
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 27 inch
Word-painting
'BE IN THE MYSTERY'
From 'What the bleep do we know', quot
e by Fred Allan Wolf, PhD
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 38 x 27 and 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'BE IN THE MYSTERY'
From 'What the bleep do we know', quote by Fred Allan Wolf, PhD
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 38 x 27 and 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting (woodblock print)
'WER DIE LIEBE HOCHHÄLT
HANDELT OHNE ABSICHTEN'
(frei nach) Lao Tse, Tao Te King, ~ 500 v.C.
Original, woodblock print on Japan paper, 32 x 18 inch
Word-painting (woodblock print)
'NAHRUNG IST MEDIZIN'
Hippokrates, 500 BCE
Original, woodblock print on Japan paper, 20 x 19 inch
Wordpainting
'COMPASSION'
Homage to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 30 inch
Word-painting
'COMPASSION VS PITY'
From 'Power versus Force', David R.Hawkins, MD, PhD
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 28 inch
Word-painting
'EMPATHY VS PITY'
From 'Power versus Force', David R.Hawkins, MD, PhD
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 40 x 26 inch
Word-painting
'EMPATHY'
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 30 x 22 inch
Word-painting
'DETACH'
Original, acrylic and tempera on grey 'Arches BFK RIVES' paper, 44 x 30 inch
ABOUT WORD-PAINTINGS
Word-paintings are inspirational works of fine art, compositions of letters and words.
Word-paintings may be considered the Western style sibling
of traditional, larger format Asian and Middle Eastern calligraphy.
Word-paintings have little in common with traditional Western calligraphy.
My word-paintings intend to communicate food for thought.
Due to artistic design some of the word creations may be difficult to read;
the explicative foot note includes a reference to the author of the content.
Every work is dated, signed, stamped and executed with artist quality materials.
ABOUT PIET LEUTSCH
Painter, printer, word-painter
St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Canada
I grew up in the world of Chinese culture in Shanghai, China.
Watching a Chinese artist friend adding columns of characters to his brush paintings
I was eager to learn to write myself.
At age twelve, I received a personal stamp as a gift with my European name carved in
Chinese characters which I still use on my prints and word-paintings.
Later in Europe I enrolled in the state art academy of Berlin,
the ‘Hochschule für Bildende Künste’, attending
courses in drawing, printing techniques, photo design, calligraphy and logo design .
My calligraphy teacher was a right-arm-handicapped war veteran.
He was fascinated with the beauty of letters and the written word so much he forced himself
to relearn writing with his left hand and eventually became a teacher.
I admired his will power, sensed his passion and soon started to share the love of letters.
While working as a professional designer and artist I developed the habit of taking notes of my favorite
aphorisms and proverbs in a calligraphic manner.
After emigration to Canada in the 1980s I started to design some of these quotes in a
more free artistic style, engraved some in woodblocks and printed them.
The Montreal gallery which represented my art work proposed in 2005 an exhibition of antique Asian
calligraphy combined with contemporary Western word-paintings.
Four artists including myself were showing their creations.
The exhibition was a novelty and venture for the gallery; the public interest however was surprisingly vivid.
A professor from McGill university of Montreal assigned his students to interpret the images.
Later the word-painters were invited to attend a McGill
colloquium held with students present; the student's elaborate and amazing
interpretations (recited by the professor) demonstrated the potential impact of word-paintings.
contact: pleutsch@bell.net
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