Comments on: Matyas Selmeczi, Silhouette Artist https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 08 Oct 2024 08:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Charles Burns https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1632114 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 08:43:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1632114 It was my great pleasure to meet Matyas when he was working at the South Bank in 2011. I still have the cutting he made for me then! Good to see his work is still going strong.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440760 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:27:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440760 Excellent talent

]]> By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440639 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:20:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440639 People who can get a good likeness with scissors and paper or pencil and brush really have an amazing gift. I knew a guy who could, in seconds, draw the perfect profile of anybody; really, it was magic watching him. And they were magical drawings! It’s a special skill, the end product of an unknowable, to me, mesh of neurons and muscle. Quite something.

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440617 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:54:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440617 What a remarkable talent! I may never be fortunate to have my silhouette done by Matyas, but I can always pull up this page to enjoy his work. Thank you, G.A., for finding these extraordinary people and sharing them with us.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440610 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:02:29 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440610 Over the years, you’ve shown us many examples of the various tenacious street vendors, purveyors, hawkers, entertainers, and buskers. (historic etchings, and “Cries”, etc.) Dare I say, this fine gentleman with a gifted eye and uncanny scissors is following in their storied footsteps — in the best possible way. With each snip, he maintains the unique history of your City, and proves that the arts are not only a way of making a living……..they ARE the life force of any great city.

I trust there will be a line of customers, around the block, waiting to have their likeness captured by this singular artist. Have a wonderful Jamboree, all.
Stay safe.

]]> By: keithb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440595 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:57:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440595 Matyas’ anecdote of his meeting Inge Ravilson has me thinking of the cities and the street trades and the way skills and ‘forms of life’ carry on from country to country and time to time.

Cities really are stage sets are they not?

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440593 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:44:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440593 Many, many years ago a silhouette artist made a double portrait of my girlfriend and me. From today’s perspective, indeed, a historical reflection…

Matyas Selmeczi is certainly a great artist in his profession!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/09/matyas-selmeczi-silhouette-artist-o/#comment-1440586 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:48:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189868#comment-1440586 I’m looking forward to meeting him and getting a silhouette done (it could be a novel way to sign my Christmas cards this year!)

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