TAVIK FRANTISEK SIMON

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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T F Simon (1877-1942) was a Czech painter, print-maker, academician and writer. He studied at the Prague Academy of Arts and later at Dalmatia and Italy. Simon lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914, and in Prague thereafter. From 1928, Simon was a professor at the Prague Academy of Arts and a member of the Czech Academy.

Simon travelled extensively across the globe, New York City, Prague, Czech and Slovak countryside, Paris, London, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Japan. He produced nearly 600 art works consisting of urban landscapes, markets and portraits in various mediums including woodcuts, etchings, mezzoints, dry-points and lithographs. He was impressed by the French impressionists, and many techniques of the Japanese printmaking and Graphics.

Simon was an academician and wrote extensively on all aspects of the arts and published a highly respected manual of the graphic arts.

Simon’s paintings show light in a natural form on the subject from an unusual visual angle. Simon brought his paintings to life using small visible brushstrokes and vivid colours.

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