Fritz Oberleitner

Lives and works in Graz, Austria

Artist statement

Fritz Oberleitner, I am continuously working on the development of a visual language that is comprehensible to everyone. To create a contemporary approach to perception through a new language of figurative art. back to basics To this end, the principles of perception are constantly being analysed. And in a continuous step-by-step -from picture to picture- development a goal is pursued. Images 1+2: First of all, the basic prerequisite for this is a specially developed perspective and spatial representation. Images 3+4: are analyses which break down the processes around the questions - how visual impulses manifest themselves in the mind and become a picture. Images 5+6: are where these visual impulses are synthesised again into ideas and flashes of inspiration. Images 7+8: which are underlaid with an external frame. Flashbacks and underlayers from the context - culture – Arthistory-media - which play a huge role in the processes and principles of how an image of reality is created in the mind. I would say that I live in a time where a large part of the time floods of images trickle in and have their effect on the mindset. What is seen is linked with thoughts. In a way that is mostly not abstract, what is seen is transformed into thought processes. This leads to ideas, flashes of inspiration. Thought processes. In these thought processes, the images in the mind change according to their meaning. I paint these concrete (individual) thought processes as they arise when...

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