Movements - Graphics Exhibition

The other day, I think it was Friday, when I told you I visited two exhibitions. One was photography and I have already shown you a part of that exhibition, the other was graphics and I'd like to show you dome of the works today.

Graphics is a special kind of art and I have a very special relationship with it. My admiration for graphic artist is huge because it's not a skill you just learn in 10 minutes. You need to learn how to use the ink, you also need a vision about what you want to draw and how you want to draw it. Because you're working with black ink on white paper, there's no room for mistakes.

Behind The Scenes

This was a solo exhibition of István József Bugyi, a very talented artist and you'll see why.

This was the first artwork I saw and most likely I spent a good few minutes in front of it, trying to explore it, see all the details, to get the big picture. Each artwork is like a puzzle till you figure it out, if you can figure it out. If not, it remains a puzzle forever.

Behind The Scenes II.

I had the advantage of seeing this one at the gallery from close. Back hope, I could also enlarge to see every detail, which may not be available to you. But still, I'll let you tell me hat you see here. Let's see if we see thee same thing. Let me know in a comment.

What Noise, What Joy!

Without much thinking, you can see this is about a party. A wild party I'd say.

I remember seeing such graphics in old books, issued in the 20th century and was always wondering how it's done. Then occasionally I have seen a few graphics at some of the exhibitions, but never a solo one made only of graphics. It's nice though as you get to see different styles.

Validation Of Soul And Body

This is where things start to get interesting. This was not only ink on paper, but combined with watercolor. At least that's what it seemed to me as the purple is definitely not ink.

Directives I.

Directives II.

This was a two piece series, both ink and watercolor. Fun fact about the artist, all the watercolors I saw at the exhibition were purple. As far as I could experience so far, most likely each artist has their own favorite colors, or set of colors. Here the winner was purple.

Joachim's Experiments I.

Joachim's Experiments II.

Joachim's Experiments III.

This was really hard to read. I tried to research if there's a story behind it, but could not find anything.

If you have a closer look, you can see the first two are different from the third one and if I were to choose, most likely I would pick the first two.

Tragedy

Graphics have a longer history than you think.

The earliest graphics known to anthropologists studying prehistoric periods are cave paintings and markings on boulders, bone, ivory, and antlers, which were created during the Upper Palaeolithic period from 40,000 to 10,000 B.C. or earlier. Many of these were found to record astronomical, seasonal, and chronological details. Some of the earliest graphics and drawings are known to the modern world, from almost 6,000 years ago, are that of engraved stone tablets and ceramic cylinder seals, marking the beginning of the historical periods and the keeping of records for accounting and inventory purposes. Records from Egypt predate these and papyrus was used by the Egyptians as a material on which to plan the building of pyramids; they also used slabs of limestone and wood. From 600 to 250 BC, the Greeks played a major role in geometry. They used graphics to represent their mathematical theories such as the Circle Theorem and the Pythagorean theorem.

In art, "graphics" is often used to distinguish work in a monotone and made up of lines, as opposed to painting. source

This exhibition was clearly different from what you got used to by now. Now I'm curious how many of you prefer graphics over paintings.

In any case, even though I don't always completely understand the works, I have a huge admiration for the artist.

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