{"id":1016768,"date":"2025-05-30T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/femuz.hu\/?p=1016768"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:58:46","slug":"structure-from-the-view-i-transformations-of-the-landscape-and-the-body-in-the-art-of-jeno-barcsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.femuz.hu\/en\/structure-from-the-view-i-transformations-of-the-landscape-and-the-body-in-the-art-of-jeno-barcsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure from the View I Transformations of the landscape and the body in the art of Jen\u0151 Barcsay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Zsuzsa Iberhalt \u00e9s No\u00e9mi Szab\u00f3 art historians<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Jen\u0151 Barcsay (1900\u20131988) was a seminal figure of 20th-century Hungarian visual art, an \u2018old-fashioned avant-garde\u2019 with an individual voice, whose oeuvre is characterized by a delicate balance he established between the classical sensibility of form and a modern approach to composition. Over a career of six decades, Barcsay produced a body of work that is wide-ranging and diverse in terms of styles and genres, while adhering to a principle all along with absolute consistency, i.e. the need to re-construct and transform the view\u2014always rooted in the visible world and always generating emotions\u2014in accordance with his own visual order. The need to create order and harmony.<\/p>\n

Stylistic categories provide little help for an analysis of Barcsay\u2019s art, as abstract, constructivist or non-figurative fail to grasp the essential features of his outlook; this exhibition therefore concentrates on the long creative journey that started with the examination of the landscape and the human body and led Barcsay to a figurative abstraction that identified or searched for structure in the view.
\nIn Barcsay\u2019s thinking, the body and the land, these perennial subjects of painting never lose their original function and serve as the starting point or original source for the painterly construction of forms. The buildings of towns\u2014mostly the distinctive structures of Szentendre\u2014the ranges of hills and the groups of human figures often follow similar rhythms in his paintings because, in his drive to create order, Barcsay considered it necessary to find analogies between nature and the human form. This order is neither sterile nor objective: it has an internal rhythm and a sensitive facture that deeply involves the viewer in the logic of the image.<\/p>\n

The discipline of visual thinking is a distinctive characteristic of Barcsay\u2019s painting. Rather than narrating stories, his works communicate a way of looking at things: the way to reconstruct the world according to the laws of composition, proportions and forms. His famous Anatomy for the Artist\u2014which is also explored in this exhibition\u2014is one of the most emblematic examples of this mentality: it is not only a course book but the document as well of a painter\u2019s system-building mindset.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, Structure from the View attempts to show the process in Jen\u0151 Barcsay\u2019s work wherein the view becomes a structure, the organic turns geometric, and the contingent transforms into a consciously constructed order.<\/p>\n

An event of the Barcsay 125 Anniversary Year.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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