Marel Q1 2024 Investor Presentation from May 8, 2024
Value Chris Van Alsburg
1. Value
The next element of art!
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2. Value is the light and dark of any object
especially when talking about art.
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3. • Chris Van Allsburg,
A living artist/
Illustrator who did
the drawings for
Jumanji and The
Polar Express.
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4. Chris went to junior and senior high school in East Grand
Rapids. He didn’t take art classes during this time. His interests
and talents seemed to be more in the area of math and science.
His senior year of high school a collage recruiter from
University of Michigan came in and signed eligible students up for
classes. He didn’t know what he wanted to do but saw a college
within the school labeled the college of A and D and wanted to
know what that was. The college recruiter explained that was the
college of Architecture and Design, which included the art school.
It had never crossed his mind that someone could go to college
and make art. He hadn’t taken any art in high school but he liked to
draw and it occurred to him that studying art could be a lot of fun.
He told the admissions officer that art school sounded interesting
and perhaps he’d give that a try.
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5. He majored in sculpture at the University of Michigan, where he
learned bronze casting, wood carving, resin molding and other
techniques. He graduated in 1972 and went to graduate school at
the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to continue his study of
sculpture.
Chris first exhibited his sculpture in New York City in 1977 at the
Alan Stone Gallery. He exhibited elsewhere in New England, and
though sculpture was his primary interest, he had begun drawing
pictures at night in a little room in his and his wife Lisa’s
apartment. He did not think of these drawings as very important,
but others did. Alan Stone showed two of them to a curator from
The Whitney Museum of Art, where they were exhibited in 1978.
Lisa, who used picture books when teaching her 3rd grade
students, encouraged Chris to consider making illustrations for a
story book. A friend of Lisa’s, illustrator and author David
Macaulay agreed with Lisa that the kind of pictures Chris was
making could be effective book illustration. Instead of illustrating
others books, he was encouraged to write and illustrate his own.
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10. • M.C. Esher
(1898-1972) a
Dutch graphic
artist who is best
known for his
tessellations,
drawings,
lithographs and
etchings.
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11. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the
world's most famous graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by
millions of people all over the world, as can be seen on the
many web sites on the internet.
He is most famous for his so-called impossible
structures, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his
Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I,
Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or
Reptiles.
But he also made some wonderful, more realistic work
during the time he lived and traveled in Italy.
M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs,
woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and
sketches. Like some of his famous predecessors, -
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-, M.C.
Escher was left-handed.
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12. Apart from being a graphic artist, M.C. Escher
illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps
and murals. He was born in Leeuwarden, the
Netherlands, as the fourth and youngest son of a civil
engineer. After 5 years the family moved to Arnhem where
Escher spent most of his youth. After failing his high
school exams, Maurits ultimately was enrolled in the
School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem
After only one week, he informed his father that he
would rather study graphic art instead of architecture, as
he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his
graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, who
encouraged him to continue with graphic arts.
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