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Item Number: 126203
Title: The Time of Modernity : Hungarian Painting 1905-1925. Il tempo della modernitŕ. Pittura Ungherese tra il 1905 e il 1925
Author: Vasaros, Zsolt (ed)
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ISBN: 9786155304088
Description: Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery & Museum of Fine Arts, 2013. 28cm., pbk., 238pp. illus., most in color. English-Italian text. Exhibition held at Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome. Summary: Through more than 140 between paintings, works on paper, photographs and documents, the exhibition presents Hungarian art during the turbulent period of the first quarter of the 20th century, which corresponds to the country's encounter with modernity: from neo-impressionism to the avant-gardes, passing through the so-called Hungarian Fauvism. Modernity and tradition, Avant-garde and folklore, foreign suggestions and local atmospheres: the exhibition revolves around these two focus and is formed by six sections, each dedicated to one of the prominent moments of the "Golden Age" of the Hungarian Art. These are the years in which the "Hungarian Nabis" József Rippl-Rónai comes back from Paris, the years in which the folk songs collected by Béla Bartók start to be well-known and in which new art and literary magazines are published. At this time, the artists that had followed Matisse's teachings in Paris, and that were close to the experience of painting en plein air fostered by the Nagybánya colony, give life to the "Group of the Eight". The chromatic exuberance of "The Eight" is place side by side with the intellectual rigor of the Hungarian constructivism, which develops outside the nation boundaries after the fall of the Soviet Hungarian Republic. The exhibition also examines the significant relationships with Italy. The most important relation is the one with Futurism, already introduced with a well-known exhibition in Budapest in 1913, while in the twenties, it is the tension towards the revival of classics that combines the researches of many artists of both countries.

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