The Great Well-Known and Unknown Artists (Rybnik, Poland)

Youth Culture Club in Rybnik invites everyone to enter the 15th International Art Competition for Children and Youth "The Great Well-Known and Unknown Artists".

The term of works submission ends on February 20, 2018

AIMS:

• presentation of children’s and teenagers’ creativity
• popularization of art history knowledge and the great artists biographies,
• opportunity to share artistic, methodological and aesthetic experience,
• development of sensitivity to art among the youth

THEME:

THE TOPIC OF 2018 EDITION IS: “WILLIAM TURNER – SUN IN THE FOG”

This is one more year of our common journey around the world of art. Together we will know another artist and through our paintings we will share this knowledge . The hero of this year's edition is English Romantic landscape painter Joseph Mallord William TURNER (1775-1851).

He is known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Suitable inspiration for Turner's imagination were found in shipwrecks, fires, natural catastrophes and phenomena such as sunlight, rain, rain and fog.

No wonder Turner is referred to as "the painter of light".

In his private life Turner was an eccentric person. He had few close friends except for his father, who lived with him for 30 years and worked as his assistant studio. He never married although he had two daughters. His work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.

William Turner, a deeply experimental and progressive artist, whose style laid the foundations for Impressionism is considered one of the greatest masters of British landscape and marine painting. Apparently his last words were "The Sun is God".

DO NOT COPY THE ARIST’S PAINTINGS - let them be an inspiration for creating your own beautiful works!!!

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE COMPETITION:

PARTICIPANTS’AGE: 5 to 21 (The age groups: up to 7, 8-11, 12-15, 16-21)

SIZE OF THE WORKS: minimum 42cm x 30cm  - for painting and drawing, free  size  - for printing graphic

TECHNIQUE: painting, drawing, graphic, mixed flat techniques

DEADLINE FOR DELIVERING WORKS TO RYBNIK: February 20, 2018

Works should be described in Latin alphabet block letters and include:

• Author’s full name and author’s
• Institution’s address, e-mail and telephone number,
• Teacher’s full name,
• Teacher’s e-mail and telephone number.

PLEASE, DO NOT ROLL UP AND FRAME THE WORKS!

The results of the competition will published in April 2018 on the web-site www.mdk.rybnik.pl

The prize giving ceremony together with exhibition opening will take place in May - June 2018.

All the works submitted for the competition will not be returned to their authors; they will remain the property of organizers, who reserve the right to publish them.

See the competition page