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New Brighton Bay website

Our new website at Brighton Bay goes live tomorrow. Very exciting. 

 

Extra Art Flyer

Worthwhile Course

On the weekend I went along to a course at the CAE titled 'How to Photograph Art Work'.  Roger Saddington a former Graphic Designer with the NGV was the teacher. The course was very practical and helpful. He explained a technique to use which is cheap but very effective. He has had a book published on this process.

So....my next lot of slides/images of my work will be of tip top quality.

Geza Farago

Geza Farago was my Great Great Uncle. I had a childhood facination with him (that has never really subsided). I thought it very exciting that I had a relative who was an artist.

Over the years I have found out more and more about his work and life by meeting other Farago relatives and visiting Hungary. His daughter Kitty lives in the US and I have corresponded with her a little. He has work in various Hungarian museums which I have visited. He worked with Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. I am interested in doing some more indepth research on his life and work. 

I have been doing a little research on the web about him. This is what I have found so far at http://vintagearte.com/

Faragos [sic] early career as a textile designer is evident in this decoratively-patterned poster promoting mens and womens fashions at Budapests then-elegant Golya department store (golya is the Hungarian word for stork). Farago completed his painting and illustration studies in Paris before returning home around 1905. He specialized in costume design, working at theaters in Budapest and Vienna, and many of his paintings hang in the Hungarian National Gallery.