Wojciech Weiss (1875 Leorda in Bukovina - 1950 Krakow), Asters in a vase

oil, cardboard, 48 × 33 cm light frame
Signed p.d.: "WWeiss".

"I want my paintings to be the emotional impression I experience in the face of nature and its finest phenomena. I am not a naturalist who, like a photographic lens, notes the chronicle of life, I am not a realist who describes the exact elements of nature, my painting is a visual sensation of mine, it is a plastic closure of colorful feelings. Standing in front of nature, everything that is not important, that is unnecessary to me, I omit and leave out, details that do not raise the impression, do not exist for me. I create a color harmony, a color symphony that has a logic of existence in itself. I try to find what is most interesting in a given phenomenon, the most significant, and transform this into painting values. That's all."
Wojciech Weiss [in:] R. Weiss, "Chords of Light and Color. Wojciech Weiss and Aneri," Stalowa Wola, 2016, p. 5.