Artist Information:
Obert Fittje
Tallahassee, FL
United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
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Artist Statement:
In addition to the mythology
of our culture, we all have
certain experiences,
expressions and images that
have deep personal
significance and meaning.
These form the foundation of
our personal mythology. Some
of us have richer and more
elaborate personal mythologies
than others. Recently I came
to the realization that ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
The Senior Artist Showcase for
2011 in Tallahassee, Florida
will be exhibiting two of my
computer generated digital
images. The digital image
"Angel over the Bitterroots"
will be exhibited at the
LeMoyne Center for Visual Arts
in September and the digital
image "Extruded Leaves" will
be exhibited in the Senior ...
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Obert Fittje's Premiere Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Obert Fittje's Portfolio.
In addition to the mythology of our culture, we all have certain experiences, expressions and images that have deep personal significance and meaning. These form the foundation of our personal mythology. Some of us have richer and more elaborate personal mythologies than others. Recently I came to the realization that I was mainly painting the images of my own personal mythology. I am self taught as a painter and after painting for seven years, I consider that to my advantage as the icons of my mythology are rarely something out there in the material world. My paintings lie somewhere between the presence and the absence of an identifiable image. It would have been a waste of time for me to have spent years learning the techniques to make my paintings look realistic because the subjects of mythology are mostly imaginary. I do not go outside to nature to find the subjects of my paintings, but rather I paint inside using my imagination and the images of my personal mythology.
As a retired professional psychologist, I have been trained in the use of projective tests such as the Rorschach Inkblots where the observer is presented with purposely-vague images. The observer ... |
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