Jacob Schmidt - information
Jacob Schmidt has always pursued toward the tension between the immediate feelings and the heavy solemn in the experiment with painting's chemistry. Dressed in full armor with heart sitting outside.
From the time he was "James the younger and wilder" in training at the art academy in Poznan, it was not the ambition to become a painter, because "one should not make art if you can help it." The very consistent and simple approach to the paintbrush as man's best friend in the midst of pain and love matter has been the characteristics throughout his production.
Jacob Schmidt is later trained 'kaos pilot' and an MBA with the heavy career luggage. Jacobs Schmidts huge productivity captures the essence of adult humans' self-selected challenges of daily life and with his stodgy and coloristic expression creates Jacob Schmidt extroverted mental windows to the world of abstract stories, sporadic homesickness and glimpses of individual naive notions.
It is irrelevant to subject to give Jacob Schmidt works a thematic analysis, or look for recognizable motifs, as images are created as lightning and instant emotions, lovingly captured in the mind's twilight. Small steps and aphorisms hunting in the city corridors with quiet existences and urban beast.
Jacob Schmidt's paintings are not art, it's a flatmate you invite to hang on his wall and live with in confidence. A sympathetic friend to challenge his own thoughts and borders, in a changing everyday. Thus, today's lighting and the viewer's inner dialogue that creates and develops cohesion with the painting.