It's been some time since I visited an art exhibition and I miss it. It's time to get back to my old habits and see what is available these days. I still have some photos from the last exhibition I visited, so today I'm going to post them. Let's go through them together. Maybe you can find something you like.
István Barabás - Still Life
When I look at these still life paintings, the first thing that comes to my mind is that time has stopped. In the 19th and 20th century, when these still life paintings were so popular, life was more slow, more relaxed, so my feeling is kind of right.
Two portraits, rather good ones, especially the top one. It's an unknown man, we don't know if the painting looks like the original model, but look at the face features. It's pretty life like and that's good enough for me.
The one on the bottom is featuring a doctor called Maria Avramescu, painted in 1934. I was wondering what she has on her head but could hardly figure it out. maybe it's a scarf. Who knows.
Two ladies from another century, dressed according to the dress code those times had. Lately I had to realize I am quite often trying to put myself in the shoes of those on the paintings, to see how I would feel living the life they had. Sometimes I feel like I would try it out for a day or a week, but most of the time I'm happy I live now. Here for example I would love to spend one day sitting on the sofa, reading. But would definitely not want to wear that dress and the hat :)
Hans Mattis-Teutsch - Female Torso - 1920
Hans Mattis-Teutsch - Our Child - 1927
This painting surprised me a little. It's a rough illustration of a family, two adults, a man and a woman and a child. Today it would not surprise me, but it was created in 1927. I like it though.
Looks like linocut and pencil drawing.
Ernő Grünbaum - Modern Christ - Around 1935
This one was interesting too.
Two interesting abstracts and I liked them both.
Hans Mattis-Teutsch - Soul Flowers - 1916 - 1924
How would you illustrate soul flowers? I have no idea what I would do if I would be given this task. Most likely my choice would be some kind of flowers, but don't know what kind. It's a tough one and I'm lacking imagination and inspiration too.
Löwith Egon Marc - Western Wall
This was pretty simplistic, minimalist if you like.
Károly Patkó - Models In The Studio - 1925
This painting tells a lot if you're familiar with art and artists in those times. Life of models were quite tough. Modeling in cold studios for very little money can never be fun. Most of the artists were poor, had no money to pay the models, the only thing they had was hope that their next artwork will get some recognition and they can get some money, which sometimes happened, sometimes not.
Sándor Szolnay - Male Nude - 1926
Imre Nagy - Riverside Landscape - 1932
Imre Nagy is a pretty famous Transylvanian painter, who lived between 1893 and1976. I've seen a few works of the artist, but can't say I recognize the style. Non contemporary artists' works are all in museums and/or private collections, so you can't see them in one place.
Sándor Szolnay - Winter Landscape - 1942
What is interesting here is the light. Not the reflection that was caused by the lights of the gallery, but the light painted by the artist. I was looking at the shadows made by the trees and tried to figure out if those shadows are right. I'm not going t give you a verdict, I'll let you decide for yourself :)
Sándor Szopos - Woman Embroidering A Shroud - 1944
Then I saw this painting in my folder I knew right away that I saw this style earlier today, but I was wrong. The artist had no other paintings exhibited. Something confused me, but it doesn't matter.
I liked the clean lines on the painting, the light s it indicates a late afternoon, or early evening in my opinion, and the colors.
If you don't know what shroud means, here it is for you:
a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial. source
As everything was done manually those days, she may be embroidering her own shroud, or who knows. In any case, it can't be a fun activity, knowing your work will cover someone who passed away.
So this was my contribution to art today. I hope you can find one painting you like.
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