Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwassser are a artistcouple who question the beeing of our throwaway society. The build instilations and architectural formations out of bulky refuse. For example the installation »Steiger« is made up of found materials: Square timber beams, packaging materials and cut birch trees from the colliery, discarded furniture and doors from a demolished house in Essen.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher are German photogarphers most known for their collection of industrial building images examining the similarities and differences in structure and appearance. Bernd and Hilla Becher are among the most influential artists of our time. For more than forty years they have been recording the heritage of an industrial past. Theire »TYPOLOGIES« show on a very impressing way how different industrial buildings are and where. I appreciata theire work specially because of the fakt that they pulled the attention on something almost forgotten. They made industrial buildings visible and for that reason many of them got under monumet protektion.
Elina Brotherus
Elina Brotherus is a contemporary artist who had an Exhebition in the art Exhebition Museum Műcsarnok in Budapest in february. She studied Fotografie at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. I was very surprised of here »Post it« Fotografies specialy because I was using Post its my selfe for my last Competition-projekt, whitch was about promoting the german language in Hungary for the Goethe Institut there.
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker magazine. The »View of the World« cover-illustration is probably his most famous work from 1976. It shows how easy it is to make a siple conektion between continents just using perspectivly changes.
Constantin Raducan was born Lugoj (Rumania) in March 26th 1946. Graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu” Bucuresti. Since 1980 member of the Fine Arts Union of Romania LINK: (UAP) & International Association of Art (IAA)
Before I started to study in Augsburg he was the one who taught me in the techniques of charcoal drawing. After that time a good friendshipe followed. I stil visit him when I’m bac home in Rumania. His way of paintig and also that of her daugther Flora influanced me as well as any artis or designer you will finde on this page.
Karl Bohrmann was one of the most productive and, at the same time, most reflective of his generation of German draughtsmen. Like no other artist, he used the medium of drawing to question what is meant by the categories of seeing and perceiving. Co-production with Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg. You can see him until 25. of February in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Some years ago I have seen him in the Klüser Galerie in Munich. I realy enjoyed his drawings so that I got motivated to experience this way by myself.
Amrita Sher-Gil was not a product of Indian or Punjabi socio-cultural milieu. She was the daughter of Sardar Umrao Singh Shergil and Antoinette, a Hungarian lady endowed with considerable artistic talent. She was born in Budapest in 1913, and spent the formative years of her life in Europe. She dabbled in paint from her early childhood. Her intelligent mother detected the talent latent in her, and encouraged her to paint. Sher-Gil married her Hungarian first cousin, Dr. Victor Egan in 1938, and moved with him to India, where she died in 1941, but the real reason for death has never been ascertained, something expected in view of the overly sensationalised accounts of Amrita’s life in the words of her contemporaries. Permanent Exhebition in Munich in the “Haus der Kunst“
Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. Known for stylistic implementations that challenged, at their focus, the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he became universally recognized as the most audacious and most radical of the New Wave filmmakers. He adopted a position in filmmaking that was unambiguously political. His work reflected a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehensive understanding of existential and Marxist philosophy, and a scholarly disposition that placed him as the lone filmmaker among the public intellectuals of the River Gauche. With his movie “Á bout de souffle (Brethless)” he inspired and shoed me in my personal vive of movies and art. This movie is also a milestone of filmhistory. With the actors Jean-Paul Belmando and Jean Seberg Bout he created one of my fovorite movies.
Paul Wunderlich
Paul Wunderlich is a german Painter and Graphicartist. His “new syrealistic” Artworks are mostly erotic and influnced by mythologic sagas. 1945 till 1951 he studyd in Hamburg. 1955 he was working as Printer for Oskar Kokoschka and Emil Nolde. 1957 he started working with Lithography. bla bla 1963 till 1968 he was also Professor at the “Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg” and started 1969 making Skulptures and Plastics made of Bronce influenced by the spanish Artist Salvador Dali. He was the one who influenced my Lithography-Artworks for Edgar Allen Poe.
Eadweard Muybridge
Muybridge began to build his reputation in 1867 with photos of Yosemite and San Francisco (many of the Yosemite photographs reproduced the same scenes taken by Watkins). Muybridge quickly became famous for his landscape photographs, which showed the grandeur and expansiveness of the West. The images were published under the pseudonym “Helios.” In the summer of 1868 Muybridge was commissioned to photograph one of the U.S. Army’s expeditions into the recently territorialized Alaska purchase. more…
M.C. Escher
Escher’s first print of an impossible reality was Still Life and Street, 1936. His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries. Well known examples of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other; Sky and Water, in which light plays on shadow to morph fish in water into birds in the sky; Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective. more…
Nextlab´s members are involved in the project, “Re:orient - migrating architectures“, which explores the local aspects of China’s global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products.
»Re:orient« was presented in the hungarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture this year.
Miton Glaser
Glaser’s work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality. He uses any medium or style suggested by the picture problem - from primitive to avant garde - in his design for book jackets, record album covers, advertisements and direct mail pieces, as well as for magazine illustrations. He started his own studio, Milton Glaser, Inc., in 1974. This led to his involvement with an increasingly wide diversity of projects, ranging from the design of New York Magazine, of which he was a co-founder, to a 600 foot mural for the Federal Office Building in Indianapolis.
Throughout his career he has had a major impact on contemporary illustration and design. His work has won numerous awards from Art Directors Clubs, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators and the Type Directors Club. In 1979 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Israel Museum and the Musee de l’affiche in Paris. Glaser has taught at both the School of Visual Arts and at Cooper Union in New York City.
Pablo Picasso
I dont have to say anything. Just watch and enjoy.
Trainworms
A movi by a hungarian Student, Inspired by Laszlo Moholy Nagy. Produced by the »Théba Müvészeti Szakközepiskola« Experimental shortmovieart.
Art & Design in my opinion
Art is the word we use when we refer to that creative activity or its result, when images and objects, sights and sounds, drawings and carvings, convey the beauty and splendor of the world, or realize the imagination of the artist, for the purpose of self-expression or the shared enjoyment of its creation. Art is that which elevates our interpretation of the world and of ourselves from mere description or narrative, to the sublime. Design, usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavours, is used as both a noun and a verb. “Design” as a verb refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a new object (machine, building, product, etc.). As a noun, “design” is used both for the final plan or proposal (a drawing, model, or other description), or the result of implementing that plan or proposal (the object produced). Nowerdays it is nessesery to prctice both directions, the fine art like the design. This world has its own structures and own rules, but in the end everithing fits together and makes a whole new thing. The structure of the human brain is not lice it has been a hundret years ago, we think quicker and sometimes we can not realise the most beautiful things. Oure sences are blunted and we used to think more clear and with les details. Art and Design has the posibility to recreate the humen minds.
Are they still printing The New Yorker now?
I remember seeing old copies of the said publication in my late grandfather’s old house.