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Artist Exhibitions:
Throughout California, New
Mexico, Colorado, Florida and
Ohio in various galleries,
educational facilities and
business establishments,
Anthony and Janice have had
their creations represented
for the purpose of competition
and sale. ...
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Artist Reviews:
"I have reviewed your
beautiful on-line gallery and
am pleased to inform you that
The Amy Elizabeth Gallery of
Contemporary Art..."
Jesse Willett; Agent of Fine
Art, The Amy Elizabeth Gallery
of Contemporary Art, Kansas
City, Missouri.
"I spent some time on your
site today and I love your...
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Collections:
University of Colorado,USA
St. Nicholas Byzantine
Catholic Church, Lorain, Ohio,
USA...
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Commissions:
U.S. Army, Fort Knox,
Kentucky; Design and execute
panels for a float in the 1953
parade in Louisville, KY
celebrating the running of the
Kentucky Derby.
Sidney Harmon; movie producer;
Rancho Mirage,CA. Residential
sculpture, 1976.
CVSID; Coventry Village
business corporation group,
Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Bus
painting of a ...
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Artist Statement for Anthony And Janice Szabo
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Displayed on this and other websites (see links below or go to E-mail for other sites) are the creations of Janice and Anthony Szabo. The technique applied in the creations is Strip Montage which was conceived and first used in the year 1958. Years later it was formulated into Anthony's thesis in his studies for the degree Master of Fine Arts. It was the artist's intent to bring the perceptible and imperceptible into a pictorial composite to a level of heightened and intriguing interest not present in the original pictures. Over time and many of a variety of Strip Montage applications, volumes of other results have come to the fore with a compounded assortment of unique creations. The pictures that are used in these Strip Montage compositions are from photographs, posters or paintings by the artist and/or his wife Jan.
Example: In the SELF PORTRAIT on this site, two creations, the originals of which are not herein displayed, the oil SELF PORTRAIT of 1967 and the acrylic MOUNTAIN SCENE of 1970, both being of traditional subject matter, were brought together in the Strip Montage technique to instill in the viewer a greater sense of interest than either of the paintings had in themselves. In a similar sense, historically, the CUBIST painter, in one of the many approaches to his particular artistic statement, was interested in a depiction of a single subject, not in a two-dimentional sense, but, rather, of a three-dimentional/two-dimentional composition. He was after the creation of a two-dimentional pictorial composition of what a sculptor depicted in a three-dimentional form. This the CUBIST accomplished by utilizing different views of the subject in the finished painting. Conversely, in one of its many variations, Strip Montage compositions utilize not different views of a single subject(pictorial composition), but, rather, two, three and more subjects in one complete creation.
Although the works of Braque, Feinenger, Leger and other CUBISTS were great attractions and influence to the artist, the "springboard" for the creation of the simplistic Strip Montage technique arose from an intensely dedicated search for the artist to make a statement. Of a greater influence to the artist is a quote by the writer Katherine Kuh, SATURDAY REVIEW, where she said "Breakup,...the core of modern painting."
Just as other Strip Montage compositions that have followed, the original creation, UMBRELLAS of 1958, was inspiring and exciting to the artist about what the technique application would look like, what its effect would hold on the viewer, and would it have that "intriguing interest", a "Mirage-Montage look" that each and every following Strip Montage has had since the original. Essentially, it is the anticipated fascination of the outcome of the technique's application that is the main driving force for the artist to create another composition, inbuing the common with a dignity.
Philosopher Etienne Gilson once stated that when an artist is confronted with a bare canvas, many, many ideas run through his mind before he begins to paint. Upon completion, the artist often times feels that he has fallen short of any ideas he originally had. He feels that any time he has finished a picture, it is not complete. Many of Anthony's creations, before the Strip Montage manner of creating, were similarly faced with frustration. Now, with this novel technique, they are, in a sense, finished and complete. "They do what I want them to do."
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