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. [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_K%C5%91r%C3%B6si_Csoma)  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 h […]