Research area and keywords of research:
Painting, Painters, Silence
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
Zsuzsanna Piti
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Visual Culture
Research objectives:
Research painters who alliable with silence. Paintings or painters whose name, or life-style be one with silence.
Description and results of research:
The main point of the research was silence as in silent art.
The main subject is painting and silence that goes with it.
However I find that silence also takes part in our day to day lives whether we notice it or not.
Silent painting has a tradition. Jan Vermeer vdn Delft, Caspar David Friedrich, Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio Morandi, Marchel Duchamp, Mark Rothko probably these artists the first ones who come to mind if we mention silence.
Of course without excluding Hungarian paintings from Erzsébet Vojnich, Dezső Váli, Miklós Szüts.
I will talk more about them throught their paintings.
Analysing their age their contribution and how they bring out the feeling of silence from their work in all of us.
These three often mentioned together because they are not only in the same profession but Dezső Váli and Miklós Szüts are close friends and Szüts's wife is Erzsébet Vojnich.
From their work it is clear to see that there might not be two similar forms of silence.
But there are less known artists, forms of art or artists who only dealt with silence for a period of their life, for example silent lives series of Csilla Babinszky.
Perhaps some work of Tamás Szikora also can be mentioned.
I would like to build the research on the contrary stance while working out the contrary argument in its exact form without being biased, but to find out the facts in a way that we can reveal the layers of silence. Maybe this way we can experience the many ideas that come to mind from what seems to be a simple concept. Besides painting my research while include:
Religion, music, drama...
Research partners from other institutions:-
Other information:
Consultant, László Valkó
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