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Imre Ámos, considered by many the "Hungarian Chagall", was a member of the Szentendre group. He approached Surrealism in a very different way from his contemporary, Jenő Paizs-Goebel. At first he was influenced by Rippl-Róna's "dark period", but later he sought new vistas of painting "by giving visual expression to the innermost life of the psyche... Objects have a separate life of their own. Some of them are surrounded with a special aura with which certain memories of mine are connected. Recently I have been interested in projecting these images imbued with memories," he confessed. He called his own style "associate Expressionism". His lyrical, dreamlike paintings became grimmer, more dramattic and increasingly full of visions during the Second World War as his misgivings increased about his own tragedy.
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