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József Egry was concerned with giving a painterly interpretation of the atmosphere of Lake Balaton and its dazzling glitter of light and colour. Almost all his life and most of his working life, apart from his early period, he was closely connected with Lake Balaton. Egry was one of the original painters of this century. He did not simply seek the evocation of his visual experience of landscape, but tried to capture the light and colour effects of the lake surface, the floating mist and the flood of light. "Everything loses its objective reality in the vaporous light of the Balaton ", he wrote in his diary. He indicated landscape and figures with lines only, but with great expression, and to achieve his intentions he used the unique medium of oil-tempera-pastel.
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