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1893-1963
Theme/Style Modernism,
Byzantine subjects, religious subjects
Media Oils, watercolors,
inlaid panels, ceramic and wood sculptures
Artistic Focus Karoly
Fulop’s early paintings and batiks melded medieval influences with
the Symbolist and Impressionist focus of early 20th Century Viennese painting,
as well as the Art Deco aesthetic of the time. His later sculptural work
often depicted religious processions, rituals and practices, and reflected
the emerging trend toward polychromatic sculpture – with his creations
of groupings of figures with colored glazes on ceramic, as well as wood
sculptures featuring gold leaf, ivory inlays and colored pigments.
Career Highlights
• Fulop studied art in Budapest, Munich and Paris
before immigrating to New York around 1920.
• He first worked as a painter, depicting the docks of Gloucester,
Massachusetts, where he vacationed. Fulop also created decorative paintings
and batiks with religious themes during his early years in America.
• By 1927, Fulop had established a residence in Los Angeles,
where he opened a school of Decorative Arts.
• Fulop’s creative attention had turned to sculpture by the
1930s, and he began modeling in ceramics and carving wood and ivory figures
in the round and in low relief. Melding images both old and new, the sculptures
of Karoly Fulop echo the artist's upbringing as a student in a monastery
school in Hungary, where he was surrounded by medieval art, as well as
an adulthood lived among Modernist artists in Los Angeles.

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