István Orosz

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István Orosz
Utisz

István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker,

optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical illusions, has been compared to works by M. C. Escher.[1]

Biography

He was born in

Utisz
, (pronounced: outis) (No one) as artist's pseudonym.

Quotes

  • "Utisz - It was the Homeric hero Odysseus, who fought the
    Cyclops
    , had used this name, and had put out the monster's eye. I imagine that poster is nothing else but an Odysseus' gesture: some kind of attack upon the eye."
  • "If you want to create a poster try to explain your idea in a sentence. Then try to reduce it, leave out phrases, attributes until you just have the bare essentials. When you do not need any letter at all you are ready with the poster."
  • "... When I have drawn these impossible objects, I did hope everybody would understand my intention, the intention of a Hungarian designer at the end of the 20th century who does not tell the truth just in order to be caught in the act."
  • "There are things I can imagine and I can draw. There are things I can imagine but I cannot draw. But, could I draw something that I cannot imagine? That interests me greatly."

Introduction by Guy D'Obonner

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 solutions appeared in all of the media and for Orosz it seemingly did not cause any problem to cross the borders of the different genres. When he was drawing a poster usually he did it with the preciseness of illustrators, when he was illustrating a book, he did it with the narrative mood of filmmakers, if he was animating films, sometimes he used the several layers approach of etchers and engravers and for prints he often chose the emblematic simplifying way of depiction of posters. If we call him only a poster designer based on his functional prints, we narrow down his field of activity, we go closer to the truth if we associate him with „postering" as a way of thinking, or if we call his many sided image depicting ourselves and our age as the poster-mirror of István Orosz. (Guy d'Obonner: Transfiguration of Poster - detail)[2]

Poster art

István Orosz was known as poster designer in the first part of his career. He made mainly cultural posters for theatres,[3] movies,[4] galleries,[5] museums[6] and publishing houses[7] At the time of the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe he drew some political posters[8] too. His "Tovarishi Adieu" (also used with text "Tovarishi Koniec" – that means Comrades it is over) appeared in many countries and it was known as symbolic image of changes in the area.

His anamorphoses

Artists who design anamorphosis (anamorphosis is Greek for "re-transformation") play with perspective to create a distorted image that appears normal only when viewed from the correct angle or with the aid of curved mirrors.[9] The technique was often used by Renaissance-era artists. Orosz tries to renew the technique of anamorphosis and his aim is to develop it as well when he gives a meaning to the distorted image, too. It is not an amorph picture any more, but a meaningful depiction that is independent from the result that appears in the mirror[10] or viewed from a special point of view.[11][12]

This approach of anamorphoses is suitable for expressing more sophisticated messages, and it fits to show more amusing fun.[13][14]

Exhibitions

One of Orosz's anamorphoses

Films

  • 1977 "Silence"
  • 1978 "Towards to the Salt Celler"
  • 1980 "Private Nightmare"
  • 1984 Ah, Amerika! ("Ah, America!")
  • 1989 Vigyázat lépcső! ("Mind the Steps!")
  • 1993 "The Garden"
  • 1995 "Cry!"
  • 2001 "Black Hole - White Hole"
  • 2004 Az idő látképei ("Time Sights") on
    YouTube
  • 2008 Útvesztők ("Mazes")
  • 2010 Sakk! (Chess!)
  • 2014 A rajzoló (The Drawer)

Awards

Books

See also

Notes

  1. Moravian College. December 1998. Archived from the original
    on 2006-09-01.
  2. ^ "Posters - István Orosz". Edited by Vladislav Rostoka, Rabbit & Solution Studio, Bratislava, 2002, webpage: [1]
  3. ^ Theater poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Film poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Exhibition poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Museum poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Book poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Political poster Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Technique of anamorphic distortion Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Anamorphosis with double meanings: a landscape in the horizontal sheet of paper and portrait of Jules Verne in the mirror cylinder Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Anamorphosis with double meanings: viewed in the traditional way Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine a theatre in the age of William Shakespeare.
  12. ^ ...and the same picture viewed from a narrow angle Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine : the portrait of Shakespeare
  13. ^ Anamorphic illustration for the narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ The poet in the mirror Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine - the same illustration with a chrome-plated brass cylinder
  15. ^ Picasa Webalbumok – istvan
  16. ^ Picasa Webalbumok - istvan - Budapest, Ern
  17. ^ Picasa Webalbumok - istvan - Essen, Grillo
  18. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2008-10-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. ^ Picasa Webalbumok – istvan – Jorwert Archived 2012-07-18 at archive.today
  20. ^ "TMDG16 - 14,15 & 16 de Oct 2016 - ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE DISEÑO". trimarchidg.net. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  21. ^ "Koller Galéria". kollergallery.com. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  22. ^ 1.Kecskeméti Animációs Filmszemle Archived 2020-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 1985.
  23. ^ 3. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál Archived 2020-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 1993.
  24. ^ A 4. Nemzetközi Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál díjai Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (English: "Awards of the 4th International Festival of Animated Feature Films Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine"). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2005.
  25. ^ A 9. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál és a 6. Nemzetközi Animációs Fesztivál díjai (English: "Awards"). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2009.

External links

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