The Youth Culture House of Rybnik, Poland invites everyone to enter this year’s competition:
Topic:
—The Great Well-Known and Unknown: Toulouse-Lautrec – Chronicler of the Belle Epoque—
Aims of the competition:
- To present the creativity of children and teenagers
- To popularize art history and to familiarize participants with the great artists
- To share artistic and methodological experiences
- To develop children’s sensitivity to art
Theme:
After Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt and Rembrandt the competition’s seventh year is dedicated to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. We have chosen this representative from the world of art at the turn of the century —“ the French Belle Epoque —“ a draugtsman and painter, an artist who is considered to be the father of contemporary poster art, an amazing portrait painter, and observer of Parisian street life. The spirit of the times is captured perfectly in his works.
We expect you to present the variegated and difficult life of this French painter. Toulouse-Lautrecc – a brilliant artist, descendant of an old, aristocratic family, a disabled dwarf who became a frequent visitor of Parisian cabarets, cafes and honky-tonks, an artist famous for his original poster lithography. We want you to show both the tragic and happy moments of his life as well as the achievements of his artistic activity.
Try to show the artist at work, return to his childhood and youth, follow his journeys, life on Parisian Montmartre, meetings with people, look at his atelier, friendship and love. You can also interpret the topic in your own way.
PLEASE DO NOT COPY THE ARTIST’S WORKS —“ let them be the inspiration for your own works.
Rules:
Age groups: (up to 7) , (8 —“ 11), (12 —“ 15), (16 —“ 21)
Media size : Minimum: 30 x 42 cm, Maximum: 70 x 100 cm
Medium: Painting, drawing, graphic, mixed (only 2D)
Deadline for entries: 15 March 2007
All works should be clearly signed at the back and should contain the following information:
- Author’s full name, age
- Institution’s address, telephone and e-mail
- Teacher’s full name
- The title of the work
All the works can be sent back at the request of the artist’s sponsoring institution at it’s own expense within 10 months of the exhibition. After this period all the works will remain with the organizer.
The exhibit and prize ceremony will take place on 1 June 2007. The organizers will inform the authors of awarded works by E-mail or telephone.
Works should be sent to:
MŁODZIEŻOWY DOM KULTURY
UL. BRONIEWSKIEGO 23
44 —“ 217 RYBNIK POLSKA
Tel: (032) 42 24 088, (032) 42 15 155
E-mail: art-studio-creatio@wp.pl
Co-organizer of the competition: The Municipal Council of Rybnik
