
THE POSTWAR WORLD 1950–2000III
MODERNISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE 1950–19796
GYORGY KEPES
AND THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT
RADIO SHACK LIGHT MURAL
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001), Designer
Budapest, Hungary
1950
One of the most influential and visionary minds
of the early modernist era was Gyorgy Kepes
(1906–2001)—a Hungarian-born painter,
sculptor, filmmaker, planner, designer, writer,
and educator.
He initially studied painting at Budapest’s
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, which in the early
1930s was a hotbed of political and artistic
unrest. After the completion of his studies, he
turned away from painting to filmmaking, which
he felt ...