Lajos Gulacsy was naast schilder ook schrijver en Anna vertelde me dat hij een nieuw land verzon dat Na-conxpan heette. Hij beschreef dat land in zijn teksten, doeken en tekeningen. Hij bedacht zelfs een taal voor de mensen die in Na-conxypan woonden. Over dat taaltje vind ik niet dadelijk iets terug op het web maar deze mooie tekst stond op kieselbach.hu.
"Lajos Gulacsy (1882-1932), with his dreamy, mysterious, and refined paintings, set out somewhat in the manner of the Pre-Raphaelites. Reality did not mean much to him, and the title of a book which he had perhaps not even read, or an odd, strange name would suffice to set off the process of reflection and of creation. His paintings emanated a strange mood, full of enigmatic meaning, while his style did not lose contact with the Art-Nouveau.
As his schizophrenia progressed, he became more and more a stranger to his world, and his work was more and more bizarre and dilettantish. He fled to a self-constructed dream-land, which he called "Na-conxypan." Finally, during the First World War, his work, which showed signs of complete disintegration, was overcome by the oppressive mist of a sick mind.
Whether or not the distortions in the disquietingly grotesque figures and scenes of "Na-conxypan" originate from his illness is a subject of controversy. His paintings have, nevertheless, a unique place in Hungarian art history because of the nostalgic and sometimes Surrealistic atmosphere they suggest."
Paolo and Francesca, 1903, pencil and oil, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
2 comments:
do you like Gulácsy?
I like the painting I've posted a lot. I think his use of colors was amazing and so I liked the bright colorful ones most of all, but he's not one of my favorites :)
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