Istvan sandorfi biography of donald

His first exhibition was in a small gallery in Paris, then the first great exhibition was held in 1973 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. After that his painting were found in several museums abroad, like in Copenhagen, Rome, Munich, Bruxelles, Basel, New York, Los Angeles and in San Francisco.

On his painting he used strange objects, or very strange movements and situations. The colors of his 1970-1980s era was the blue, the lilac and their cold combinations. In the 1980s he made more female forms and still life. Since 1988 he painted mainly women.

His first Hungarian exhibition was held in 2006 in Budapest, and then in 2007 there was an exhibition in Debrecen.

Istvan (known as Etienne) Sandorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 and died in 2007. His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary. Because of this association he served five years in Stalinist prisons during the Communist regime and his family was deported to an isolated Hungarian village. At the time of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then in France. Greatly affected by the violence of the revolution and by the aberration of political systems in general, Istvan took refuge in drawing, and then, at the age of 12, in oil painting.

Art became his overriding passion to the detriment of his schooling. At the age of 17, while still in secondary school, Sandorfi had his first individual exhibition at a small gallery in Paris. After his second exhibition, in 1966, he gave up drawing to devote himself exclusively to painting.

In view of the morbid nature of his son's paintings and their lack of commercial success, Sandorfi's father enrolled Istvan at the School of Fine Arts, where he was to gain a degree, and at the School of Decorative Arts.

This, the family thought, would give him a more prestigious status than that of mere "artist". Gradually he achieved financial independence by

Paintings by Don Eddy, in the MEAM

The museum has organised Catalonia’s first exhibition of one of the maximum exponents of American Hyperrealism

A collection of paintings by North American painter Don Eddy can be seen in the MEAM from the 11th of February onwards. The New York-based artist has pieces in the MoMA and Whitney museums but has not been the subject of a monographic exhibition in Europe since Paris, 1973.

Don Eddy began his artistic career in the 1960s with a series of paintings which paid tribute to the North American urban landscape and incorporated motifs taken from pop culture and post-industrial capitalism. In the 80s he began to paint objects (glassware, tableware and toys) with photographic precision while creating his first polyptychs (multi-panel paintings), which juxtapose poetic images in order to reveal their underlying inter-relationships.

More recently, Eddy began to bestow his photographic realism with a certain metaphysical aura and eight triptychs created by the artist between 2005 and 2011 can be seen in the MEAM up until the 30th of March – images which were inspired by photographs and achieved using a 55-year-old airbrush and an elaborate system of 15 to 25 layers of paint.

The individual panels are separated by distances of just a few centimetres, thereby producing tension between perception and experience and establishing a relationship between the images, the artist and the viewer.

Early Years

István Sándorfi, also known as Étienne Sandorfi, was a French/Hungarian naturalist painter. He received his formal art education at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. He mastered what art critics now term hyperrealism, but he did so with his very own blend of surrealistic elements. He got introduced to oil painting at the age of 12, since then he dedicated much of his life to perfecting his painting techniques in order to achieve the photoreal and at the same time pull the carpet away under the viewer by letting part of a person disappear in thin air. He was reclusive, mostly working at night. He kept the contact with galleries and collectors to the bare minimum, only enough to make ends meet. In the beginnings he survived by making illustrations for advertisements and portrait commissions. 

About his Art

Although he had reached international acclaim by the 1970’s, he cracked the code after the 1980’s. Before then he did self portraits. But these were somewhat tormented and left gallery owners with an ambivalent feelling. On one hand they knew they were dealing with a great artist but on the other they had to accept displaying the works of someone with a very limited audience indeed. In the 1980’s he started to use more cold blues, greens and violets. This created a delicate but psychologically charged palette as contrasted with beige and orange. The artist applied a single strong source of semi-diffused grey daylight and reflective light: a simple arrangement to give the scenes documentary authenticity. By the late 1980’s the subject matters were increasingly women mixed in unusual poses with parts secluded or entirely missing.

Drapery and runny paint was used as illusionary cue points to his partially disappearing parts. This never had the character of mutilation of the figures. No rather, what we’re left with is a poetic take fleeting moment of us being a h

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