This article is missing information about Banyai's animated works.(December 2018) |
Istvan Banyai (27 February 1949 – 15 December 2022) was a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He was born in suburban Budapest and received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. [1] He moved to France in 1973, then to the United States in 1981. [1]
In 1995, Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, Zoom. [1] Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Zoom was soon published in 18 languages. [ citation needed] He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is Zoom, written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai." [2]
Banyai also produced illustrations for The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and The Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe. He described his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added." [3]
Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, Banyai later lived in rural Connecticut. He and his wife, Kati, had a son. Banyai died from lung cancer at a hospital in West Harrison, New York, on 15 December 2022, at the age of 73. [1]
This article is missing information about Banyai's animated works.(December 2018) |
Istvan Banyai (27 February 1949 – 15 December 2022) was a Hungarian illustrator and animator. He was born in suburban Budapest and received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. [1] He moved to France in 1973, then to the United States in 1981. [1]
In 1995, Banyai produced his first wordless children's book, Zoom. [1] Honored as one of the best children's books of the year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, Zoom was soon published in 18 languages. [ citation needed] He went on to author four more books and illustrate many more in collaboration with other writers and poets. "It's refreshing to encounter a group of virtually wordless books that invite children to consider their world from a point of view they may not have otherwise considered. The most stunning is Zoom, written—or, rather, imagined and then illustrated—by Istvan Banyai." [2]
Banyai also produced illustrations for The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Time and The Atlantic Monthly; cover art for Sony and Verve Records; and animated short films for Nickelodeon and MTV Europe. He described his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette... no social realism added." [3]
Having moved from Budapest to live in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, Banyai later lived in rural Connecticut. He and his wife, Kati, had a son. Banyai died from lung cancer at a hospital in West Harrison, New York, on 15 December 2022, at the age of 73. [1]