Activities
Marian Schmidt
- by Arthur Schmidt
A series of video tales realised by Arthur Schmidt about the circumstances in which many of Marian Schmidt’s photographs came to be. The series covers various periods of Marian’s life. Arthur Schmidt also analyses some of his father’s photographs.
Marian Schmidt’s
Phenomenology
of the Image
A series of videos realised by Arthur Schmidt: discussions, statements covering themes taken directly from Marian Schmidt’s book on a phenomenology of the image. The book is currently still in the process of being finalised.
Art LAB
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS & RESEARCH
Research on Marian Schmidt’s methodology in visual arts, conducted by Arthur Schmidt:
Psychological portrait
While living in New York, Schmidt studied the Stanislavsky method of acting. He was accepted as an auditor by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio (1970-71).
Also while working as a lighting designer at ACSTA I, he learned acting techniques from the old Russian theater director Sonia Moore (Sophie Evzarovna Shatzov), a former student of Yevgeny Vakhtangov, in Moscow (the favorite disciple of Konstanty Stanislavsky).
During his lifetime Marian Schmidt applied and taught Stanislavsky’s techniques in portrait photography.
After his Death, some of Marian Schmidt’s students, including his son Arthur Schmidt, continue his legacy in psychological portrait.
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MARIAN SCHMIDT’S PORTRAITS
Expansion of research on psychological portrait
currently conducted by his son Arthur Schmidt
FUTURE EXPERIMENTS & RESEARCH
Research on Marian Schmidt’s methodology, conducted by Arthur Schmidt in collaboration with polish and international scientific institutions:
a) Research on energies affecting us through works of art. The research explores the concept of the energy flowing between a visual, audio visual, sound and musical work of art and the receiver of that energy.
b) Research on various forms of meditation and their influence on the perception of visual, audiovisual, sound and musical works of art by the receiver.