GADÁNYI, Jenő
(1896, Budapest - 1960, Budapest)

Green Trees, Yellow Lights

c. 1949
Oil and pastel on paper, 43 x 61 cm
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs

In Gadányi's art, his trip to Paris in 1927 meant a significant experience. This was when he recognized the role of pure colours. The rich oevre of the artist in close contact with nature included the experience of reality in a continuously evolving system of symbols. "My artistic imagination is in contact with nature while I am observing it. Naturally, this contact ceases to exist when I am formulating a picture so that I can make my experiences suitable for expression ... my pictures do not originate from nature, but from experience: the deeper the experience, the more reality will change," said the artist in the catalogue of the exhibition held in Pécs in 1958. The picture exhibited here illustrate that experience is linked to reality.

In this landscape in oil and pastel the artist was not interested in the structure of forms but the atmosphere of colours and lights. Problems full of emotions and tasks of a painter to be solved resulted a more descriptive picture closer to nature. The content does not lack in tension independent of view and expression radiating in yellow and green.


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