Mystery of Design
Contemporary Collection
Artist | |
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Date | 1965 |
Object type | painting |
Medium, technique | canvas, oil, oil pastel, graphite, enamel |
Dimensions | image: 45 × 70 cm |
Inventory number | MM2021.140 |
Collection | Contemporary Collection |
On view | This artwork is on view at the permanent exhibition |
Ilona Keserü was a dominant, idiosyncratic figure in the Iparterv generation that emerged in the 1960s. In 1965, Keserü began to paint gestural pictures, which she numbered in sequence. These works can be regarded as early Hungarian examples of gestural painting. Picture Number Two (1965) is the second in the six-piece series. Recalling this period, the artist explained: “Turning my back on what I had learned, this was the first time I had produced a painting by choosing and inventing the technical components, and by bringing them to the surface…”
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