The World Of Sculptures
It's time to pick up the pace and post more art in the upcoming period as there are a lot to show you and new exhibitions keep coming. Next week I have three new ones available and want to attend as one is a regular exhibition for the art school students, where you can see a different level of art, a very interesting one. The whole room smells like fresh paint as the paintings were finished recently and you can see the hesitant lines and sometimes mistakes as well. This is kind of cute, not a mistakes at all.
Anyway, let's get started with what I'd like to show you today, which is an exhibition I visited back in March this year. It was a common exhibition by two Transylvanian artists, both called Vass. Unfortunately none of them is with us today, which makes their work more valuable.
Let's start with the statue of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, who was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book.
Kőrösi Csoma was born in 1784, so there's no way to know if the statue resembles him or not, we have to take the word of the artist, but that's not really the point here. I was looking at the statue's face expression and can see pride, which can be accurate as his achievements made him famous outside the country's borders too. What is interesting to note here is the clothes (I'm avoiding the use of the word outfit as it would look really bad, used for a person from the 18th century), which are traditional Hungarian clothes of those times. Nice work.
Áron Vass - Grandpa is telling stories to his grandson - 1970
This sculpture may seem like a simple thing, but it has a lot to say. Back in those days grandparents had a huge responsibility in raising grandchildren and even bigger responsibility in passing on the knowledge they have accumulated all their life. Stories were not read out of some fancy story books, but narrated from one generation to the next one. It's a lovely sculpture and has a lot to say.
A group of three individual sculptures featuring craftsmen. It's a very common topic in art, especially art in the 20th century, or from earlier times.
The potter.
The cauldron patcher.
The carving szekler.
It's a nice way to pay tribute to those craftsmen who lived all their lives doing this work for a living and leaving behind so many valuable artworks and knowledge.
This sculpture of Áron Vass has a deeper meaning as it features a relative with his granddaughter. I love the facial expression of the grandfather, the love he's looking at the little girl. It's not easy to create such faces, trust me.
Two szeklers talking politics
This has also been a common scene in villages, where people mostly set in front of the gate at night and shared stories, discussed current matters and gossiped.
What I love about Vass's art is how life like the sculptures are, how each face shows emotion and what is even more precious, he focused on simple people, everyday life.
The bust of an old woman, which is also common in folk art and most of the women look like the lady here. This is not to critique the artwork or women, but back in those days wearing a headscarf for married women was mandatory, so most women looked alike.
However, take a closer look. This is where you see the greatness of the artist. Need I say more? I don't think so.
Bear. Yeah, we're in the bear market :) Ok, jokes aside, bears are also part of Transylvanian life, regardless where you live, in a village or in a city. It's nice from far and far from nice in real life as the bear population of the region is 5 times more than the land can support, which means they don't have the necessary space and food, which forces them to enter cities as well.
While posting these photos was thinking, for someone with considerable knowledge of Transylvanian life, it's enough to look at the sculptures and you know where the artist is from and this is a great thing.
Now let's see what you think about these sculptures or the art in general.
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The artwork is wonderful and full of detail, especially the group of sculptures depicting artisans, I absolutely loved them!!
But today I’m letting my emotions guide me, and my two favorites are the grandparents with their grandchildren; they remind me of my maternal grandfather when I was little. They’re magnificent sculptures!! Thank you!!💗
I can understand why you picked the two statues with kids. Those are the best as there are a lot of emotions there.
What little I remember of my grandfather is something like that.
Wow I like these statue's
And your photography 💓❤️
Thank you, I'm glad to read this.
Honestly, they are all great pieces, they have tons of details, they are realistic, they are well made... So I'll just say the one I like the less, the bust, cause it's kinda creepy
Creepy? Huh! Because of the eyes? I suppose so. Let me know.
yeah! the eyes are scary lol, seems possesed
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Thanks for the recommendation. At the moment it's unlikely I will end up in that part of the world, but I know there are a lot of possibilities for art lovers and this comes quite handy if ...
I'm going to check those links later. Images are playing up again, unfortunately.