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A PAINTER’S ANALYSIS OF SELF MELTING OPPOSITES.
Sándor Hartung has appeared in the mid eighties of the last century as an artist of traditional way of painting and graphical creation, in a time of
spreading of serious intentions to dissolve the picture and their coming true, in a time of new and newer artistic media. The painter belonging to the
middle generation of the Hungarian artists – since the end of his studies in the college i.e. two decades, - consequently, without any turnovers
builds his oeuvre. Giving an account about his shorter-longer creative periods, he returns the third time with his individual exhibition to the Gallery ’13 in
Soroksár.
His works made in the millenery are traditional oil/canvas compositions, they bound the painter to his classical ideals. Beyond the observance of the
traditional and regular forms and means of painting, his art could be characterized as a figurative style, based on a natural principle. Sándor Hartung,
active in the field of monumental and attendent art on high level too, is related to the tradition of Hungarian masters of diverse and rather weak
surrealism.Having been the father of the Hungarian surrealists, Lajos Vajda - whose oeuvre was so different from the other ones, Dezső Kornis, Endre
Bálint, Imre Ámos, Menyhért Tóth, György Román; in the sixties Tibor Csernus and the surnaturalist and from the seventies on, Aladár Almásy – the star
leading Sándor Hartung can be the two popes of the European surrealism: Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Captivation the phenomena of the so called
reality beyond reality, processing a dream-vision, diving in psychical depth, erotical heat, all this charasteristics made Sándor Hartung a real successor
and developper of his great predecessors. He is not an artist of automatical surrealistical projection. His visions are consciously balanced compositions of
theatrical scenes, (interpreting sometimes concrete performences.) He uses the technics of film-making (montage, cut and so on). He makes it
sometimes incoherently or elaborated, consisting of jam packed in slays. In the world of Hartung pictures, created in a given period, or exhibited together,
one can see an intensive presense of opposite poles resulted by gleaming tenseness of the contents and form, sense and sensuality. These oppositions
are insolvable or solvable in themselves, the picture can be a battlefield of hidden equalization. Reality and dream, features of elementsand persons, -
you can never tell, which is irrational or transcendent?
Sándor Hartung has appeared in the mid eighties of the last century as an artist of traditional way of painting and graphical creation, in a time of
spreading of serious intentions to dissolve the picture and their coming true, in a time of new and newer artistic media. The painter belonging to the
middle generation of the Hungarian artists – since the end of his studies in the college i.e. two decades, - consequently, without any turnovers
builds his oeuvre. Giving an account about his shorter-longer creative periods, he returns the third time with his individual exhibition to the Gallery ’13 in
Soroksár.
His works made in the millenery are traditional oil/canvas compositions, they bound the painter to his classical ideals. Beyond the observance of the
traditional and regular forms and means of painting, his art could be characterized as a figurative style, based on a natural principle. Sándor Hartung,
active in the field of monumental and attendent art on high level too, is related to the tradition of Hungarian masters of diverse and rather weak
surrealism.Having been the father of the Hungarian surrealists, Lajos Vajda - whose oeuvre was so different from the other ones, Dezső Kornis, Endre
Bálint, Imre Ámos, Menyhért Tóth, György Román; in the sixties Tibor Csernus and the surnaturalist and from the seventies on, Aladár Almásy – the star
leading Sándor Hartung can be the two popes of the European surrealism: Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Captivation the phenomena of the so called
reality beyond reality, processing a dream-vision, diving in psychical depth, erotical heat, all this charasteristics made Sándor Hartung a real successor
and developper of his great predecessors. He is not an artist of automatical surrealistical projection. His visions are consciously balanced compositions of
theatrical scenes, (interpreting sometimes concrete performences.) He uses the technics of film-making (montage, cut and so on). He makes it
sometimes incoherently or elaborated, consisting of jam packed in slays. In the world of Hartung pictures, created in a given period, or exhibited together,
one can see an intensive presense of opposite poles resulted by gleaming tenseness of the contents and form, sense and sensuality. These oppositions
are insolvable or solvable in themselves, the picture can be a battlefield of hidden equalization. Reality and dream, features of elementsand persons, -
you can never tell, which is irrational or transcendent?
