Gyorgy kepes biography of christopher brown

ADC Hall of Fame.

Kepes was to find himself a member of that small army of migrs who left Europe between the wars to settle and work in the United States and, through their efforts here, found .

Gy Kepes Oct 4, - Dec 29, Inducted: The house was designed by Marcel Breuer, an old friend from his days in Hungary. An early visitor to the site observed the gulls circling over the great stretches of sand and dune grass and remarked that this proximity to nature would be a great source of inspiration to the artist. A viewer of his paintings immediately sees the influence of nature on the artist, for they are layered with an insight and experience and spell out, in the words of one critic, "Like the rings of a tree, what words cannot adequately display.

The road to Massachusetts has been long and circuitous, leading from Budapest through Berlin and London to Chicago, from Chicago to Texas and Brooklyn and ultimately to Cambridge.

György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist.

Along the way his works have found their way into galleries and art museums and private collections in San Francisco and Florence, New York and Rome, Dallas and Budapest, Boston and Berlin, Montreal and Vienna and in a score of other major cities around the world. Kepes was to find himself a member of that small army of migrs who left Europe between the wars to settle and work in the United States and, through their efforts here, found international fame, acclaim and influence.

Gyrgy Kepes was born in Hungary in The Academy at the time was a hotbed of both political and artistic activity, and Kepes affirms that he became influenced by the revolutionary poet and editor, Lajos Kassak. He gave up painting for a while, turning to filmmaking, which he felt was a better medium for the artist to express his social beliefs.

In , he wrote to Lszl Moholy-Nagy , who had written for Kassak's quarterlies and so a link existed between the two. This was the same year that "The Blue Angel" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" were released, when motion pictures were becoming an international force. Nagy invited Kepes to join him and they worked together on and off until , first in Berlin and later in London.

Crowther, he came to know a large number of eminent British scientists. At the same time his interest in John Ruskin and William Morris was rekindled and his own view of the artist's role as a transformer of the environment reinforced. The Nagy connection was to have greater import than Kepes ever dreamed.