István Orosz | |
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 Orosz in 2019 | |
| Born | (1951-10-24)24 October 1951 (age 73) |
| Education | Budapest College of Applied Arts |
| Known for | Graphic design,animation,painting |
| Other names | Utisz |
István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker,graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works,impossible objects,optical illusions, double-meaning images andanamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical illusions, has been compared to works byM. C. Escher.[1]
He was born inKecskemét. He studied at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (nowMoholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) inBudapest as a pupil of István Balogh andErnő Rubik. After graduating in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated film as animator and film director. He is known aspainter,printmaker,poster designer, andillustrator as well. He likes to use visualparadox, double meaning images, and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting andetching. He also tries to renew the technique ofanamorphosis. He is a regular participant in the major international biennials of posters and graphic art and his works have been shown in individual and group exhibitions inHungary and abroad. Film director at thePannóniaFilm Studio in Budapest, Habil. professor atUniversity of West Hungary inSopron, co-founder ofHungarian Poster Association, member ofAlliance Graphique International (AGI) and Hungarian Art Academie. He often usesΟΥΤΙΣ, orUtisz, (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 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]
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 therevolutions of 1989 inEastern Europe he drew somepolitical posters[8] too. His "Tovarishi Adieu" (also used with text "Tovarishi Koniec" – that meansComrades it is over) appeared in many countries and it was known as symbolic image of changes in the area.
Artists who designanamorphosis (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 byRenaissance-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]
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