Artwork of the week - Anna Vasvári: The perfect cleansing

Though usually we know Anna Vasvári because of her caricatures, after graduating from the School of Applied Arts (Iparrajziskola), she was working as a fashion designer for several years - it certainly had a great impact on her later work. From her work called Feminine Things, first a two-volume bookseries, then a movie was made and it won an award in the Viennese Filmweek in 1964.

From 1945, she was a permanent caricaturist in Ludas Matyi, but she also drew pictures for Magyar Konyha, Hahota, Béke és Szabadság or Magyar Ifjúság. Vasvári’s cheeky drawings are not only self-reflexive and ironic, but they also have clear and elegant lines and the message behind the content is always exceedingly strict.

As a matter of fact, her figures are as sassy and comical, as they are sincere and gentle.

In 2008, under the name of ‘Fashion and seduxen’, an exhibition was made in kArton Gallery from the works of the Munkácsy-award winner caricaturist.

/Komornik Eszter/