Hungarian Printmakers - Istvan Orosz, Liviusz Gyulai, Bela Kondor (Paperback)

Chapters: Istvan Orosz, Liviusz Gyulai, Bela Kondor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Istvan Orosz (b. 24 October 1951; Kecskemet) Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director, is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of Istvan Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical illusions, has been compared to works by M. C. Escher. Studied at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest as pupil of Istvan Balogh and Ern Rubik. After graduating in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as stage designer and animated film as animator and film director. He is known as painter, printmaker, poster designer, and illustrator as well. He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting and etching. He also tries to renew the technique of anamorphosis. He is a regular participant in the major international biennials of posters and graphic art and his works has been shown in individual and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. Film director at the PannoniaFilm Studio in Budapest, Habil. professor at University of West Hungary in Sopron, co-founder of Hungarian Poster Association, member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI) and Hungarian Art Academie. He often uses OYTI, or Utisz, (pronounced: outis) (No one) as artist's pseudonym. During the last two decades - when most of the works shown here were made the activities of the poster designer, the printmaker, the illustrator, and the film director have completed each other. Many motive, stylistic features, technical solutio...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=845456