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

Youth Culture Club in Rybnik invites everyone to enter the 12th International Art Competition for Children and Youth "The Great Well-Known and Unknown Artists".

The term of works submission - until February 29, 2012.

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 2012 EDITION IS: “ALPHONSE MUCHA – ART NOUVEAU FAIRY TALE”

This is one more year of our common journey in the world of art. Together we will get to know another artist and through our paintings will share our knowledge of him. This year’s artist is a Czech graphic artist and painter, one of the main exponents of Art Nouveau – ALPHONSE MUCHA.

Please enter his colourful, fairy-tale world. Get to know the paintings, engravings, drawings and photographs that are the finest examples illustrating the epoch of fin de siècle. Show his adventurous life in Prague, Munich, Vienna, Paris and America. Remember about people he met on his way: Sarah Bernhardt- an actress for who he designed costumes, posters and scenery; Paul Gauguin – a painter that he shared the atelier with; the artist James Whistler, with whom Mucha founded the school of painting. Remember also about his family and friends. Do not forget how important in his work was  commercial design  - posters, calendars, menus, book covers, postcards, magazines’ titles. All the above were the real pearls of Art Nouveau. One should also remember about the great undertaking which was creating the Slav Epic depicting the history of Slavic people.

Present the person who created the Art Nouveau fairy tale.

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: min 30x42 cm - max 70x100 cm

TECHNIQUE: painting, drawing, graphic, mixed flat techniques

DEADLINE FOR DELIVERING WORKS TO RYBNIK: February 29, 2012

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 prize giving ceremony together with exhibition opening will take place in June 2012 in Rybnik.

ALL THE AUTHORS OF THE AWARDED WORKS WILL BE INFORMED BY E-MAIL, POST OR TELEPHONE.

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.

ADDRESS:

MŁODZIEŻOWY DOM KULTURY
UL. BRONIEWSKIEGO 23,
44-217 RYBNIK, Polska

tel. 0-32 4215155, fax: 0-32 4224088,
e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.mdk.hg.pl

The competition is organized UNDER THE HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE SILESIAN CHIEF EDUCATION OFFICER AND THE MAYOR OF RYBNIK.