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FIRE BIRD BURNT A NAUTILUS SNAIL SOLD Painting

Igor Eugen Prokop

Hungary

Painting, Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 72 W x 61.4 H x 0.8 D in

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The firebird burnt a Nautilus snail The painter, Igor Prokop enjoys fame worldwide. His works are shown at exhibitions of high standard in America, Asia and Europe. At the 2013 London Biennale the international trustees celebrated him “as a unique artist of colours and shapes”, his compositions are “the natural reflections of the intensity of matchless creation”, writes the London Times. Igor Prokop, the learned biologist and talented painter, has been an ardent environmentalist for years. In his pictures he swears on the purity of nature. The Hungarian painter’s creed is to present the unfailing micro and macrocosm to be experienced. Because the tiniest changes of the world are exactly as exciting as the flow of oceans. He opposes great forms to minute details. The journey to the Pacific Ocean reveals the Hungarian painter’s colours and tints. The colour flares and becomes transparent by applying layers of oil, acryl and glaze. For Igor Prokop bird’s eye view is a divine present. This is why for the second time the artist reflects a sea swallow, “Sterna Fuscata”, a bird that sees the sea, the mainland and the coast. In this outstanding picture the bird witnesses as a hostile firebird consumes a periwinkle with fire. The body of the Nautilus snail is dissipating. The black slimy bulk clots as a big spiral. The scorched pieces of the body are floating deep in the sea among corals and sea weed. They are searching their way in the undercurrents like the leftover oil in the water. We experience dissipation and offset. Igor Prokop gives the firebird radiating beauty and shiny dominance: the plumage wide open, the profusion of the variety of colours as the fire is spreading not conceding getaway. The Hungarian artist describes the unequal fight between the firebird and the Nautilus snail with rich, narrative fantasy. He gives the feathered attacker a weapon that the sea creatures are unmercifully exposed to, i.e. the fire. The fire damaging the world is burning already. The cue is global warming. This piece of art by Igor Prokop is a brilliant masterpiece as a composition with a relevant social background. The renowned environmentalist gives an emphatic warning via the bright firebird who/which consumes the Nautilus snail with heat. He summons us to protect Nature. Der Feuervogel und die Nautilus-Schnecke von Igor Prokop Der Maler Igor Prokop genießt weltweite Anerkennung. Seine Arbeiten wurden und werden in hochrangigen Ausstellungen in Amerika, Asien und Europa präsentiert. Auf der Kunstbiennale in London im Februar 2013 feierten ihn die internationalen Kuratoren „als einzigartigen Formen- und Farbenkünstler“ Seine Kompositionen sind „ Naturpanoramen von unnachahmlicher Gestaltungsintensität“, schrieb die Times in London. Igor Prokop, ein studierter Biologe und begnadeter Maler, ist seit Jahren ein glühender Umweltaktivist: In seinen Bildern beschwört er die Reinheit der Natur. Den unerschöpflichen Reichtum im Mikro- und Makrokosmos erlebbar zu machen, ist das künstlerische Credo des Ungarn. Weil die ständigen Veränderungen der kleinteiligen Welt für den Maler ebenso aufregend sind wie die Strömungen der Ozeane, stellt er großflächigen Formationen winzige Details gegenüber. Reisen in die Südsee haben dem Ungarn Farben und deren Nuancierungen erschlossen. Durch die Überlagerung von Öl, Acryl und Lasuren lässt er transparentes Kolorit aufleuchten. Für Igor Prokop ist die Vogelperspektive ein himmlisches Geschenk. Zum zweiten Male reflektiert der Künstler deshalb die Sicht einer „Sterna Fuscata“, einer Seeschwalbe. Sie überblickt Meer, Land und Küsten. In diesem herausragenden Gemälde wird die Seeschwalbe Augenzeuge, wie ein gewaltiger Feuervogel eine Seeschnecke durch Feuer zerfließen lässt. Der Körper der Nautilus-Schnecke hat sich bereits aufgelöst. Schwarze Schlieren von unterschiedlicher Stärke sammeln sich in einer großen Spirale. Angesengte Körperteile schweben über dem Meeresgrund zwischen Korallen und Seepflanzen. In gegensätzlichen Strömungen suchen sie sich einen Weg wie Ölreste im Wasser. Wir erleben Zersetzen und zerfließen. Igor Prokop verleiht dem Feuervogel strahlende Schönheit und majestätische Dominanz: Sein weit ausladendes Federkleid, das in den variantenreichen Farben des Feuers ausgebreitet ist, gestattet keinen Fluchtweg. Den ungleichen Kampf zwischen dem Feuervogel und der Nautilus-Schnecke reichert der ungarische Künstler mit erzählerischer Phantasie an. Dem gefiederten Angreifer verleiht er eine Waffe, dem Meerestiere erbarmungslos ausgeliefert sind: Es ist das Feuer. Es lodert bereits in weltumspannender Gefahr. Das Stichwort dafür: Globale Erwärmung. Ist das Werk von Igor Prokop kompositorisch ein brillantes Meisterwerk, so ist die dahinter stehende Idee von gesellschaftlicher Relevanz. Der bekennende Umweltschützer setzt mit dem strahlenden Feuervogel, der die Nautilus Schmecke durch Hitze zersetzt, ein betörendes Zeichen. Wir sind aufgerufen, die Schöpfung zu schützen.

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Painting:Mixed Media on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:72 W x 61.4 H x 0.8 D in

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Everything I do can be called a lifelong process of evolvement like everything at nature once evolved within a "natural order". My studies as well as my time as a teacher, but first of all my travels, have formed me. Like everyone I was created by the daily influences: my children, my friends, and all the surrounding social and personal problems. From this daily life originates my creative sense for responsibility: I feel responsible for our planet's imperfect looking future! I sensed our Planet first of all visual, and connected my impressions with my strong interest for biology and my everlasting wish to travel. The urge to discover and the urge to create met at my soul. I traveled through many countries but how many did I not visit? I learned about the elemental, wild power of our oceans, the cradle of life itself. Then I became aware of the destruction by man. I saw the dead corals, the final extinction of uncounted creatures. At the small islands of the Pacific Ocean I became witness to the destruction of everything that should have been holy to us. These wonderful old and life giving reefs that we destroyed inspired me to formulate my feelings in order to oppose the destruction. I traveled further: New Zealand, Australia, and America with its unique New York. I traveled through the old Europe that is connected with my soul and through the hot Africa with its hard but nevertheless human way of life. Indonesia with her unlimited sources of artists and wonders of nature helped me to understand our world, as did the drop of river water under my microscope - or the body of the ant, the blade of grass?all these systems and impressions go through the filter of my brain and everything flows further into my heart and my hands: the forms, the colors, and the connections. Is the blade of grass with its efficiency not superior to any machine? And what kind of wonder is the human being? 23000 breaths does he take each day, and he needs so many liters of pure water - pure water from his small habitat within our universe. You should think that this habitat would be perfect for him. We are all tiny parts within the great, unbelievable and after all not understandable system. Every detail within this system is important, both in the physic as well as in the psychic world. Errors of the system (like my diseases) let me reflect about the connections within the system. Everything is connected - nothing is meaningless.

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