Original artwork description:
Believe it or not, apart from chocolate, expensive watches, punctual trains, fast skiers and cheese fondue the Swiss are also good at the obscure craft of typography. In the 50s and 60s the 'Swiss Style' became an internationally accepted updated version of the 'International Typographic Style' of the 20s and 30s. Why a landlocked, mountainous country became world leaders at fiddling with fonts is a mystery. In the 1970s German born Wolfgang Weingart (1941-2021) began a one man assault on the Swiss Style - "I took Swiss Typography as my starting point, but then I blew it apart...". He became known at the Swiss Punk Typographer. Like a serial killer Weingart took a chainsaw to the Swiss Style with his innovative designs and manipulation of type. Looking at some of his work - with its stark, sharp-edged black and white craziness - will give you a migraine. Weingart took the dull and boring world of typography into art. This is what I'm talking about.
Materials used:
Acrylics
Tags:
#black and white #poster #poster art #saying #postersWHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? (2023)
Acrylic painting
by Steve White
1 Artist Reviews
£421.65
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 60 x 4.5cm (unframed) / 60 x 60cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Typographic
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Original artwork description
Believe it or not, apart from chocolate, expensive watches, punctual trains, fast skiers and cheese fondue the Swiss are also good at the obscure craft of typography. In the 50s and 60s the 'Swiss Style' became an internationally accepted updated version of the 'International Typographic Style' of the 20s and 30s. Why a landlocked, mountainous country became world leaders at fiddling with fonts is a mystery. In the 1970s German born Wolfgang Weingart (1941-2021) began a one man assault on the Swiss Style - "I took Swiss Typography as my starting point, but then I blew it apart...". He became known at the Swiss Punk Typographer. Like a serial killer Weingart took a chainsaw to the Swiss Style with his innovative designs and manipulation of type. Looking at some of his work - with its stark, sharp-edged black and white craziness - will give you a migraine. Weingart took the dull and boring world of typography into art. This is what I'm talking about.
Materials used:
Acrylics
Tags:
#black and white #poster #poster art #saying #postersReturns and refunds
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Artist Reviews (1)
This artwork is sold by Steve White from Netherlands
Steve White
Netherlands
About
I started painting, aged 50, after visiting a Wassily Kandinsky exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. I vowed not to fall victim to the infamous New Maths Equation: MODERN... Read more
