Istvan banyai wikipedia

Istvan Banyai

Hungarian illustrator and animator

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Istvan Banyai (27 February – 15 December ) was a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He was born in suburban Budapest and received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.[1] He moved to France in , then to the United States in [1]

In , Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, Zoom.[1] Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Zoom was soon published in 18 languages.

[citation needed] He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered.

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The most stunning is Zoom, written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai."[2]

Banyai also produced illustrations for The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and The Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe.

He described his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette no social realism added."[3]

Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, Banyai later lived in rural Connecticut.

He and his wife, Kati, had a son. Banyai died from lung cancer at a hospital in West Harrison, New York, on 15 December , at the age of [1]

Books

  • Zoom (New York: Viking, )
  • Re-Zoom (New York: Penguin Group, )
  • REM: Rapid Eye Movement (New York: Viking, )
  • Delzell, Tom.

    The Slang of Sin (Merriam Webster, )

  • Sandburg, Carl. Poems for Children: Nowhere near Old Enough to Vote (Random House, )
  • Minus Equals Plus introduction by Kurt Andersen (New York: Abrams, )
  • The Other Side (Chronicle Books, )
  • Wiedemann, Julius, ed.Illustration Now! (Köln: Taschen, )
  • Park, Linda Sue.

    Tap Dancing on the Roof (Clarion Books,

Awards

  • Ten Best Books of the Year, New York Times Book Review,
  • International Reading Association (IRA) Children's Choices Award,[4]
  • Publishers's Weekly, Best Books,
  • American Illustration Cover, No18, November
  • "Professor Emeritus", Moholy Nagy Academy of Art, Budapest,
  • The Society of illustrators, Best illustrated childrenbook, "The Other Side", Gold Medal,
  • 3x3, magazine of contemporary illustration, Silver Medal,
  • Notable Children’s Books, Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children.[5]

Articles

  • Mark Vallen, "Illustrating War," Foreign Policy in Focus, 18 March [6]
  • Patricia McCormick, "All Things Considered" 12 November , The New York Times[7]
  • Sean Kelly, "Spring Children's Books: Stuff and Nonsense" 16 May , The New York Times[8]
  • School Library Journal[9]
  • Step Inside Design[10]
  • "Hungary: an open book"[11]

Exhibitions

  • "Stranger in a Strange Land", Retrospective solo exhibition in the Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, [12]
  • "Artists Against The War," Society of Illustrators, New York, January
  • "Illuminare" Design Week Budapest.

    Hungary,

  • Wordless book Festival, Kyoto, Japan,
  • “America Illustrated” or the Best Contemporary American Illustrators, Teatrio association together with the Italian Foreign Affairs Department and the Embassy of the United States of America.

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    Catalogue Cover Art, Published by Associazione Culturale Teatrio. Italy,

  • Eastern European illustrators for The New York Times "Op-Ed". SVA, New York,

References