Martin Schwarz – The unknown artist…
Posted by flore | Posted in Non classé | Posted on 09-07-2009
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Last week end, i’ve been to the Giger Museum, in Bulle in Switzerland. i’ve never been a huge fan, but like everybody, i’ve LOVED his Alien, which is, for me, one of the best Science Fiction creature in da history.
But there, i’ve discovered an artist i’ve never heard about… Martin Schwarz.
You can have a look on Google, you won’t find anything… that why i though my mission was to make everybody discover his work… after that, you’ll consider nowadays artists a bit differently ;-)
Keep in mind all his work has been done around the 70’s….. so it’s probably one the first graphic “pirate” on photoshop… the concept is always the same: taking a famous original painting & re-interpeting it….. check dat!
Everybody knows this Brueghel Classic (Babel Tower – 1563)
& here’s Schwarz interpretation…
You see what i’m talking about ??
so here are some other stuff….
his version….
& again…..
& the most famous one !!
(these 2 variations are from him).
hope you’ll like it.
oh, & another extra thing from him, which made me laugh a lot ;)
proper swiss graphic ahaha
Glad you posted these pictures. I saw an exhibit of Martin Schwarz’s work in Zurich in 1981 and thought it was brilliant. I still have some prints of his postcards somewhere. Too bad there’s not too much of his work in the web.
Steve
Thanks Steve! yes, i found his work very inovating, especially when you know it was done in the 70s!
it’s a pity pics are not shown correctly, there’s a bug with this version of wordpress, need to sort this out….
I love this guys work. Catastrophe 1 blew me away. I have been searching for a print of his since I went to the Giger Museum. Have you ever come across his work on sale?
Cheers,
Ben