BERÉNY, Róbert
(1887, Budapest - 1953, Budapest)

End of the Village

1935
Oil on canvas, 69 x 90 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

With regard to the subject matter of the painting, it is as quiet as a still life, its geometrical and structural emphases make it full of tension. The painter decided for a viewpoint which allows for an overlook. The figure of the woman on the right suggestive of thoughts and emotions is in intimate realtionshipwith nature flourishing lively even in its stylized form on the one hand, and with a laconic, almost geometrical definition on the other. Movement and rhythmicaltake turns in a balanced way to the extremes. The arrangement of squares, triangles, oval forms, the quiet and lively patchesproduce an almost musical effect. The painter co-ordinates a flood of broken colours with the help of geometrically simple forms. He images nature, sunshine, air and vapour in colours and forms but he creates the order of planes, masses and space as well, while he is reacalling a disciplined world of imaging, the quietness of tales, and a kind of human and creative attitude to life.


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