''The New Eve'' (Hungarian: Az új Éva) is a painting by Hungarian artist

Sándor Bortnyik Sándor Bortnyik (July 3, 1893 – December 31, 1976) was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. Life He moved to Weimar in 1922 and was connected to the Bauhau ...

from 1924.

Description

The picture is painted in oil on canvas and has dimensions of 48,5 x 38 cm. The picture is part of the collection of the

Hungarian National Museum The Hungarian National Museum ( hu, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is not to ...

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, Hungary.

Analysis

In 1919, Sandor Bortnik falls among representatives of Constructivism. From 1922 to 1924 he lived in Weimar, where he met artists from the Bauhaus. Painted abstract two- and three-dimensional compositions, which subsequently adds figures and objects. In the composition "New Eve" describes an ironic ideal of "modern" man in the 1920s. Women with fashionable clothes and placed in the showroom, and can be rotated in different directions. In his right hand he holds a green apple. With this and other paintings ironic applied swipe "brave new world" of constructivism. The artist uses precise details, geometric shapes and colors that puts them in an abstract composition. Manages to deride utopian ideals, but can not avoid them because it is an active participant in shaping the "new world".

References

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