Throwback 1997- 2001- EK University BVA/ BFA

April 09, 2021

Throwback 1997- 2001- EK University BVA/ BFA

Dear Friends!

During the whole 4 years of study at the department of drawing and visual communication,

art teacher training college at EK University,

was a "traveling" in between historical and artistic styles for me.

I started my travel and experiments in prehistoric times or even in the Atlantis era

and the next month I found myself in zen and painting in Japanese style.

Finally, I decided to create my final exams' artworks and written the essay and research study in the spirit of zen calligraphy and its deep impact on modern American and Western abstract painters.

My diploma artwork was a reflection of the age and times of the 2000s

when the speed of human life started to fasten in a way we all felt unpleasant,

annoying.

Many of us started to go back to search for ancient techniques of meditations,

prayers, and old wisdom to try to slow down the speed

we felt in our lives,

came unwanted,

came invisible,

and came to destroy

the peace of minds of my

environment everywhere.

I noticed but stayed silent and preferred painting the urban vibes, the harassed human and human nature, nature on my paintings.

Here is a poem I was written in 1999, I depicted it after all in some of my diploma artwork, elements series, and urban series until today!

Call it social criticism,

call it truth,

call it a lie,

call it a crime against nature and humanity,

call it great and unnecessary progress,

call it evolution encoded into your DNA,

call it DNA damage and gene editing process

call it a great future,

call it "suicidal tendencies" of humanity,

call it great and useful technology,

call it the internet,

call it the world wide web,

call it hybrid generation in progress,

call it EMF, RF

call it "urban radiation ruling the nations".

Call it Humanity in the same boat...

I depicted forest fire, whirling energies, red rain, thunder, wires, fences, birds, cells, camps, crows, antennas, radio towers, ozone hole, sky, chaos in harmony, red clouds, dawn, and many more themes, each artwork has its own story (history)..etc.

More to read about my diploma:

Diploma artworks and Japan inspired paintings 2001 by dakini.hu (krisztinaasztalos.blogspot.com)

Who I am:

KRISZTINA ASZTALOS
fine artist

EDUCATION:

1997 - 2001 Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary, graduated with honour as teacher of graphic art and visual communication, student of: Péter Földi painter of Kossuth Prize, László Kovács, István Nagy B. painters of Munkácsy Prize

1996 -1997 Private student of Boris Slavenski and Benoist Demoraine contemporary abstract painters, Paris, France

1996 Private student of Ágoston Pusztai, sculptor

Krisztina Asztalos has been painting since 1989, graduated with honor as graphic art and visual communication teacher in 2001, Hungary. As a fine artist, painter her paintings have been exhibited in solo and international group shows in Europe, Asia, Africa, United States. The main concept of her art: 5 elements - Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Space. Her artworks are inspired by eastern calligraphy, nature, and human nature. Used techniques: paper and ink, gouache, watercolor, ink, acrylic, mixed media on canvas, on wood. Her macro-sized 2- 3 m long ink paintings "Aqua" series are bringing a certain feeling of special and great dimensions.

"Urban" series are depicting the multicolor vibration of metropolises with humor and a bit of sarcasm, personal responses for happenings of urban society. Each piece of element paintings is like a part of a mosaic, depicting macro (earth- fire-air-water-space) and microelements (human and urban life ). My aim to depict the fabulous diversity and profusion of our universe.
Krisztina's artworks were chosen to be published internationally in 10 different books. Krisztina's artworks are verified by Verisart.

ARTIST STATEMENT

"My paintings depicting nature: that surrounds us, the micro-and macro cosmos and human nature that is like immense space. Human is like space, forever changing energy fields: atoms as our blood circulation, as galaxies originate and stars decline, floating into ash inside. We are, as ash of stars, transmitting light... " Krisztina Asztalos, 2004

KRISZTINA ASZTALOS OFFICIAL WEBSITE (dakini.hu)

More paintings:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BacJ2sSlMa4/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BacKgEoltb_/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BacO5kUlXim/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BacLFFPlpDR/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BacPRfQlYsb/

Elements by Krisztina Asztalos | Blurb Books

Shintoism:

"Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami ("gods" or "spirits"), supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things. The link between the kami and the natural world has led to Shinto being considered animistic and pantheistic. The kami are worshiped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and public shrines. The latter is staffed by priests, known as kannushi, who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific kami enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and kami and to solicit the latter's blessing. Other common rituals include the kagura ritual dances, rites of passage, and seasonal festivals. Public shrines also supply religious paraphernalia such as amulets to the religion's adherents. Shinto does not emphasize specific moral codes although it places a major conceptual focus on ensuring purity, largely by cleaning practices such as ritual washing and bathing. Shinto has no single creator or specific doctrinal text, but exists in a diverse range of localized and regional forms."