SZABO KLARA PETRA
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Szabo Klara Petra is an Artist/Designer from Eastern- Europe. She was born in Hungary, in 1981. In 1997 she was admitted to an art school where she made mainly graphics, linocuts and etchings. She started her career as a painter in 2002. Most of the time she works with watercolor, brush-pen and ecoline. The feelings she illustrates on the paper vary according to her moods and depth of her emotions. She always tries to visualize her feelings, her environment, her friends and life on her paintings. They are small, complex designs attempting to reflect her sense of the times we are living in. She likes the combination of her watercolor paintings with design ideas, too. She studied applied arts at the University of West-Hungary, Institute of Applied Arts in Sopron. In the first year she designed a carpet for Sotex carpet factory. In her fourth grade, she won the silver prize in Graniph Design Award with the TiGirl t-shirt. In the same year, she went to Denmark with The Royal Danish Ministry of Education Scholarship. Her new project is a painted street-fashion blog. She explores the styles of the street. Fashion can describe what a city is like, so she takes photos of what stands out and captures the spirit within them. She is creating a series of watercolor paintings by which her aim is the documentation of the clothing habits of youngsters and reflecting the atmosphere of the given subculture. This project receives publication mainly on the Internet, on the basis of a weekly expanding data collection and its transformation into paintings. Street fashion and ’blog’ itself as a way of expression are major sources of inspiration for her. This fashion blog is part of a painting action. It is a continually expanding collection and it’s processing. Street fashion and the blog itself affect her inspiringly, as a form of presentation. She paints people whose appearance is exciting for her. She doesn’t strive for the accurate rendering of the sight, instead, she tries to grasp their mood. So far, there have been 82 paintings worked out but it is her intention to have a collection of 100 pieces
