18″ dia. x 6″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015 (SOLD)
18″ dia. x 6″ (deep) x Raku fired ceramic – 2015 Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
18″ dia. x 5″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
18″ dia, x 5″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
20″ x 12″ x 8″ – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 (SOLD)
18″ x 6″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015 – SOLD I am not sure if this painting appeals to you. But I wanted to show that not everything is OK at the end of 2015.
We came so far from the caves of Altamira and the recent news is that the WWIII could star at anytime. How could be that we as a species cannot live in harmony.
Way is that some of us think that they are superior, deserve more, need to be served by the rest of us… because they believe God make them ‘special’ … now you know why I cannot belong to any religion.
What is it that wrongly ’wired’ in our brain…
So, what I wanted to show the harmony we could have by the flower (especially that Poinsettia is representing the holiday season) and the fruits … but should we have a gun to protect ourselves when the system stop to function. Riot, looting, food-shortage, and then I have to protect my home and loved ones. How will I (you) do that? Interestingly this painting was sold and ended up in Brazil.
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015 This is a reoccurring subject to me. I made a few versions of these two old men whom at the end of the story got what they deserved… they got stoned!
14″ x 52″ – red oak – 2015 SOLD
I was 24 years old in 1971 when I finished my university education and started to work at one of the largest engineering firm in Hungary, at Budapest. It was called the ‘Iparterv’ where there were close to one thousand engineer, draftsmen, accountants, project managers etc. I got to know one of my older engineer colleagues very well, whom I love to talk to. He was an intelligent well rounded individual whom I could converse with on many topics. Ones I asked about 1956 ‘counter revolution’. (As you may notice I used the word ‘counter-revolution’ but at that time in Hungary the 1956 up-riser of the people had to be called ‘counter revolution’. One may end up in jail if that heroic action was called ‘revolution’.)
We were still just 15 years from the time when the Hungarians made the USSR move out their occupying forces from Hungary. Yes, the west, and mainly USA gave false hopes to the Hungarian people that they would support our fledging real democracy, but by now you know it was a convenient lie. As it happens today; with the spreading of ‘democracy’ by people in power in the west.
After two weeks the revolution was crushed and many thousands fled the country to avoid the terror that followed it. The Russian tanks supported ‘communist’ – and I place this word in quotation marks because they were not communist but opportunist traitors – raining down real terror. Many thousands disappeared and never to be seen after the internal police took them from their loved ones. Some were under aged, so the Kadar government kept them in prison until they reached age of 18 and then sentenced them to death. Awful things!!
But that is not what I wanted to say…
George, my aforementioned colleague, told me how he was ‘pulled in’ by the events of the day 1956 October, 23rd.
He was a young engineer working 8AM to 4PM. He did not know what was going on in the city. He has noticed that the radio was playing classical music without any interruption since 2:30PM but besides that, nothing was different. So when he was leaving the office, which was in central Pest, he has seen hundreds of university students exuberantly marching on the streets. They sang national songs, which were prohibited to sing during the ‘communist’ regime and the thing that pulled him in to join the demonstrators were the flags.
“Attila, you could not believe it – seeing those flags without the communist crescents were like magnets. I had goose bumps. I could not resist joining the demonstrators. I went to the radio station to have the 16 points of our demands to be broadcasted. And you may know the first point was – Russian forces must leave Hungary…”
That was the beginning of our quiet discussion over lunch, which lasted quite a while…
Since then this discussion has stayed with me – now forty some odd years later – and I always wanted to make a sculpture of those flags that started the Hungarian revolution.
Now here is the result. I know it may not say too much to you but for a Hungarian, the cut out crescent means the fight like “David against the Goliath”.
Sorry for my long-windedness but this ‘political’ work even now resonates with me to my very core…
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015
This is the my first self portrait at age 69
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015
8 1/2″ x 26″ – oak – 2015
16″ X 20″ – oil on canvas – 2015 SOLD
One of my dear friend, Attila Zalanyi, had a drawing of this situation. I liked the idea that the woman seducing the devil, just as a revenge for the ‘original’ sin’. I made this painting based on his concept. I hope he will not mind and you the viewer will understand my intention… PS.: I made this copper frame specially for this picture.
16″H x 20W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015 (SOLD)
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
18″W x 22″H – Silver maple – 2015
I had this piece of wood a few years. It was cut as a side branch from a 250 years old silver maple at the end of our back yard. During the drying process it developed one sizable crack. So I was wondering what to do with it until I remember that when our kids were small in the early 1990s and we were driving up North to some campsite with our pop-up tent trailer all of us were listening and singing along with Leonard Cohen.
Since the first time I heard him I loved Leonard Cohen music, poetry. So this piece of cracked wood brought Leonard’s very strong poem/song the Anthem in to my mind.
Then I just had to carve away the layers to expose him, as I see him.
I hope you recognize him.
4″W x 26″H – Willow bark – 2015 (SOLD)
When I was a kid I always liked to listen to old people as they tell their stories. There are so much wisdom could be learned from them. So I got a piece of willow bark as I was thinking of a storyteller and the following sculpture came out of the bark.
And O Yes, that polished stone represents to me the wisdom…
22″W x 18″H – Silver maple – 2015 SOLD
Someone was criticizing the composition of this sculpture. “Moses head is blocked by the tablets” and yes, they do. I agree with it, but my question is; what is more important – the law or the bringer?
Also, I wanted to have the pose when Moses lifts them up and shakes them as he say “THIS IS IT” … follow them!!
This is the same branch that was cut from a 250 years old tree standing at the back of our backyard.
16″W x 19″H – Silvermaple – 2015
Somehow Hemingway’s short novel made a strong impression on me. Its simple way to express a lonely man’s thinking process is just hauntingly beautiful.
I made a similar image last year in ceramic. That work find a home at England. And this one find a home at Trinidad!
19″W x 22″H – Silver maple – 2015 SOLD
This close to 100 year old branch of a 250 years old tree was cut at our backyard three years ago. I just could not burn this magnificent piece of wood. I was thinking of Noah how he felt after completing the ark. The job was done ‘so where is the rain’ as he looks up to the sky or rather to the Almighty. That is how I envisaged his state of mind.
21″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 ( SOLD) One of these days LA. will have a major earthquake and will split of the continent and the sea will rush in. You may consider that it is a gloomy picture but the colors on this plate really turned out to be outstanding… I hope it will not happen for the sake of my friends…
