Rafal Olbinski was born in Kielece, Poland. He immigrated to United States in 1981, he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and a designer. Due to his expertise in art he has been honored with more than 150 awards including gold and silver medals from Art Director’s club of New York. In 1994 he was awarded the International Oscar for The World’s Most Memorable Poster, Prix Savignac in Paris.
Artist Name: Rafal Olbinski
Title: Prix Savignac in Paris
Date: 1994
Description: A woman wrapped white fabric standing near the window at night time. Whole city can be viewed from the window. There’s a blown candle near the window, the smoke from the candle has made a face.
Analysis: The piece is symmetrically vertical. However it is asymmetrical at horizontal.
Interpretation: In my opinion, Olbinski is trying portray that when the whole city sleeps a woman at night has a different personality. She has her desires to be loved and too belong to someone. The face created with the blown candle smoke seems as if she is missing a loved one. It just illustrates that at the end of the day a woman needs to feel secured and belong to someone.
Judgment: After analyzing and interpreting Olbinski’s work I strongly feel that he has done a great job conveying his message to its viewers. The colors used in wall and sky look realistic. The fact that he captured the whole city in a small window is impressive. There are no cons to look for since he won Oscar for this painting. Maurice Tabard was born on July 12 1987 in Lyon. He’s a French photographer who immigrated ton United Sates in 1914. He was always fond of art as a child. But as he grew older he developed his interest in photography. He studied under Emil Brunel at the New York Institute of Photo. After various menial jobs, he worked as a portrait photographer for Bachrach Studios from 1922 to 1928 in Baltimore, MD
Artist: Maurice Tabrad
Title: A Little Tabard Never Hurt
Date: 1949
Description: Image with layers of a tree, ground, Eifel tower and naked feet.
Analysis: The picture had lots of layers. The transparency in all the images is impressive. The picture keeps the viewers eye engage to figure out what’s happening. However its black and white quality doesn’t make it as appealing as a color photograph would.
Interpretation: The tree’s trunk is a figure’s naked legs. Although this picture might be naked in Paris, city of love, the dried tree and the naked legs show that even in the city of love the figure is lonely. The picture give ghost like feeling which once again supports the interpretation of the photograph.
Judgment: Tabard has done a fantastic job. Even though the picture has lot of negative space, it gives viewers ghostly feeling. I my opinion he the pictures are dilated in perfect measure.
graphy in 1916
Although both of the surrealist artists have different methods and materials to work with, they both have same message which portrays how a person can be lonely in city full of people. They both have humans included in their work. However, because of the time they both have different color scale. Tabrad’s work is on grayscale but it illustrates the same concept of surrealism as Olbinski. They both have the concept of loneliness with sight of city.
