DIETER PICCHIO-SPECHT
Arcegno, - SW



Original Artworks (20)

Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beam Network, 2011, Original Sculpture Wood, 18 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241  In this picture you can see the four sides of the beam. I wanted to represent a colorful network. Acrylic colors are applied with pallet knife and the result is really interesting. . .  ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Wood Sculpture, 2011
18 x 180 cm (7.1 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Cube Abstract Fantasy, 2011, Original Sculpture Steel, 30 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241  This cube is made of steel. I applied the acrylic colors with pallet knife and the result is very interesting. . . ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Steel Sculpture, 2011
30 x 30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beam Net Ring Marriage, 2011, Original Sculpture Wood, 18 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241   This beam is made of wood and painted with acrylic in my typical segment- art style. It represent two rings which get married together.  ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Wood Sculpture, 2011
18 x 180 cm (7.1 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Light Art BAR, 2010, Original Painting Acrylic, 80 x 160 cm. Artwork description: 241  This light- art painting is made in my typical segment art style. Under each painted bottle there is a LED processor. A nice athmospehre of colors and lights is created when the lights of the room are switched off. ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2010
80 x 160 cm (31.5 x 63.0 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beam Myosotis Alpestris, 2010, Original Painting Acrylic, 18 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241  Normally a good painting hangs on a wall - for many years.These installations of painted
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2010
18 x 180 cm (7.1 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Light Art My Love, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 120 x 120 cm. Artwork description: 241
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
120 x 120 cm (47.2 x 47.2 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Light Art Tod Der Sterne, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 80 x 160 cm. Artwork description: 241   When stars die, after billions of years, they turn into red color - shortly before. . .Here you see the picture at daytime without lights; but with the different light in white and red the picture becomes action. The light- art is controlled by a light- processor. The round ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
80 x 160 cm (31.5 x 63.0 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Light Art Human Communication, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 180 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241  As we communicate with our hands. . .First here is the typical style of Picchio, his Segment Art. Then there are 21 hands painted on semitransparent hexagon plates of glass fiber reinforced with epoxy resin in distances of 5 to 7 cm from the canvas. Under each hexagon ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
180 x 180 cm (70.9 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Light Art LAN Local Area ..., 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 120 x 120 cm. Artwork description: 241  3 nets and the spider. . .The title is a metaphor.Here you see the picture at daytime without lights; but with the different light in blue and white and red the picture becomes action. The lights are controlled by a light- processor. The nets from semitransparent plates ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
120 x 120 cm (47.2 x 47.2 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beam Helianthus, 2010, Original Sculpture Wood, 18 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241   Normally a good painting hangs on a wall - for many years.These installations of painted
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Wood Sculpture, 2010
18 x 180 cm (7.1 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beam Centaurea, 2010, Original Sculpture Wood, 18 x 180 cm. Artwork description: 241  Normally a good painting hangs on a wall - for many years.These installations of painted
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Wood Sculpture, 2010
18 x 180 cm (7.1 x 70.9 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Luce E Ombra Lago, 2005, Original Painting Acrylic, 31 x 31 inches. Artwork description: 241 Sunrise at the Lake of Locarno. This modern painting remembers us of the morning red, that colours the lake and the mountains. It is often the first impression of people living at the lake. ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2005
31 x 31 inches (78.7 x 78.7 cm)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Luce E Ombra, 2005, Original Painting Acrylic, 100 x 130 cm. Artwork description: 241 The title is
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2005
100 x 130 cm (39.4 x 51.2 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Luce E Ombra, 2005, Original Painting Acrylic, 80 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 The light is shining as the sun at the sky. Naturally there are sometimes also dark clouds and shadows; but also lighten. . .Here you find also my segment- art- style, which brings excitement into the whole paining.Acrylic on canvas80 x 80 cm( 31 x 31
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2005
80 x 80 cm (31.5 x 31.5 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Wow, 2001, Original Painting Acrylic, 60 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 This word comes from the young generation in the US. - It expresses something great, unusual, wonderful....
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2001
60 x 60 cm (23.6 x 23.6 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Abstract Red, 2004, Original Painting Acrylic, 80 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 Here the segments are expressed very strongly, red colour broken with black and white. A simple but very expressive painting....
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2004
80 x 80 cm (31.5 x 31.5 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Blue Black White, 2003, Original Painting Acrylic, 160 x 240 cm. Artwork description: 241 I love large painting. Here I can let off all steam. The painted acrylic colors, one in and on top of the others. Strong colors. Strong contrasts.This painting of 240 cm ( 94,5
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2003
160 x 240 cm (63.0 x 94.5 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Beige-Blue Brown-Violet, 2002, Original Sculpture Wood, 150 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Place this abstract sculpture right into your room! This sculpture is made of wooden elements, painted with acrilics following my segment- art- style and scotched together. Each element measures 150 x 40 x 8 cm ( 59 x15 x 3. 1
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Wood Sculpture, 2002
150 x 40 cm (59.1 x 15.7 inches)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; New York Vision, 2002, Original Painting Acrylic, 39 x 51 inches. Artwork description: 241 My vision of New York with Memory of the WTC- Towers...
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2002
39 x 51 inches (99.1 x 129.5 cm)
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Dieter Picchio-Specht; Fire, 2002, Original Painting Acrylic, 39 x 51 inches. Artwork description: 241 The print does not really portray the true vibrance of the colour in this painting. It shows how a fire burns its way through the segments from the left to the right....
Dieter Picchio-Specht
Original Acrylic Painting, 2002
39 x 51 inches (99.1 x 129.5 cm)
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Artist Statement

Art, creativity and imagination have always played an important part in my life, although I have only started to fully concentrate on painting a few years ago.
This passion has always been part of me. I have finally given up my work as a general manager in industry – to dedicate all my time to painting. At last I do what I have always wanted to do. It is simply that a dream has finally come true.
Even during my years at secondary school my paintings were awarded prizes and I should have enrolled in art classes after I passed my A-levels. In fact, a renowned company manufacturing ceramics offered me a scholarship, which I was unable to accept at the time.
I have always kept up with painting as landscapes and images, abstract and impressionist. Since some years now I am able to paint full-time and fill canvas after canvas with my ideas.
My new studio is right in the centre of the village of Arcegno, surrounded by wooded hills, near to Ascona, a well-known tourist centre at the Lago Maggiore in the South of Switzerland.
I apply the paints directly to the canvas with a spatula. I usually use acrylic paints. The reason is probably because I am a pragmatist, even when I paint. My style is like my temperament – quick. Painting with a spatula and acrylic paints, which dry in less than an hour, is totally in line with my mentality. I prefer strong, vibrant colours. My work always begins with a sketch, following a very clear image of the actual result. I always prepare the entire painting down to most details in my imagination. Sometimes it takes several days before I can start working on the actual painting. But once I have started things move very quickly. I paint "wet on wet", mixing the paints on the canvas. Because I use a lot of paint, which I apply in thick slabs, the structure created where the paint has been applied, remains clearly visible. It reminds the onlooker of the Impasto technique. Many of my paintings and their subjects are transformed into geometrical shapes, a technique which divides the images into segments. Therefore, I refer to it as segment art.

So I see visions, abstract paintings, somehow expressive, exploring intense emotions on the canvas.
Some funny ideas, as the kind of Calligraphy or Graffiti, I name “picchiography”. Rather than using language to replace the visual image, I use the visual image by painting letters to words. It is a bit like pop art but very nice to paint and inspires to meditation.
As a specialty I paint collages or compositions, of products, components, applications and so on of a specific theme on commission. I made several nice large Collages for Industry and a Bank.
My latest series is (about) work, which I call “art()work”. It shows stylistic colourful clippings of the machine working process with steel.
My latest works are Wildflowers, which you find in the Swiss Alps. I had made several hundred wildflower photos, most in macro. My wildflower paintings find many compliments and enthusiasm.In my segmant-art style they are very modern, but still presenting the typical aspect of the natrural flowers.
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