Michael Blowhard writes:

Dear Blowhards --

Art find for the day: Balint Zsako, who was born in Hungary and now lives in Toronto.

Balint often works in ink and watercolor, and he seems to enjoy walking the line between fine art and illustration. His paintings and drawings are musing, dreamlike, poetic, and mucho preoccupied with branches and roots, fluids and orifices, and machinery. In their whimsicality and power, they're like a cross between Saul Steinberg and "Eraserhead."

Here's Balint's very rewarding website; here's a very rewarding q&a with him. Great exchange:

Q. If you could pinpoint the characteristics of people who collect your art, what would they be?

A. They generally have a good sense of humour with an appreciation of both the refined and the obscene.

Don't overlook Balint's mindbending, brainstormy journals, which can be found on his website under "Gallery."

I discovered Balint thanks to Drawn!

Best,

Michael

Reminds me a bit of Ralph Steadman, the illustrator for most of Hunter Thompson's stuff. Also, similar to paper artist Kako Ueda. Her stuff is amazing.

Posted by: the patriarch on October 1, 2007 10:37 AM






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