Research area and keywords of research:
Aspects of spirit and matter in painting – „status absolutus” in painting
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
- József Tarnóczi
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Visual Culture
Research objectives:
The program I am pursuing (and implementing) aims to integrate the three possibilities of color (natural, soul-based, spiritual, or J. Itten's expressions: impression-based, expressive, constructive), to achieve unity (within the framework of a non-figurative painting program), strictly enforced at the same time, the characteristics of the paint and the color, the sensual character of the materials used.
Description and results of research:
The so-called "basic facts" of traditional painting are still available today, and if we consider the material conditions, they have not changed substantially over the past millennia. The basis of painting (canvas, planks, wall surfaces, etc.) and the paint materials (as well as various painting methods, techniques) still provide the material basis of painting, while the "spirit", the spiritual contnent, which is expressed in the work, is still difficult to define as it was centuries ago, in spite of its highly visible sensual and concrete "traces".
The program I am pursuing (and implementing) aims to integrate the three possibilities of color (natural, soul-based, spiritual, or J. Itten's expressions: impression-based, expressive, constructive), to achieve unity (within the framework of a non-figurative painting program), strictly enforced at the same time, the characteristics of the paint and the color, the sensual character of the materials used.
- color as an expression of natural sensitivity, the color by its natre, reflex, realism, light and shadow, space, vibration, etc.
- the relationship between color and emotionality, the representation of color as an world of emotion and passion. The forces that make up man (deep consciousness), the power and tension of color, issues of harmony and dissonance, etc.
- color as universal reality, immersion in truth and infinity, symbolism experienced and explored (and not bloodless!), Color as an ancient principle, relation of colors to light (in a higher sense), "color metaphysics".
Bearing in mind the deeper unity of these three possibilities and principles, my goal is to create works that combine the content layers of color with personal and specific (often natural) color experiences, making the most of the very different characteristics of materials (substrates and paint materials).
In my conception of painting I am highly motivated by the difference between the painting and the painting of the past and the present. The questions of applicability, is the complexity of the construction in material and color, which is accompanied by the complete absence of the narration of the object and the absence of the image.
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Publications (max. 5):
- 2000-01 “Dialogue - Painting at the turn of the millennium”, Kunsthalle, Budapest
- 2009-2010 "Silver Rectangle", Carpathian Euroregion International Painting Triennial, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary
- 2011 “Parallel Realities” (solo exhibition), Mű-Terem Gallery, Debrecen
- 2012 Center of Life, DMK Downtown Gallery, Debrecen
- 2015 "Here and Now" - National Salon of Fine Arts 2015 /Documents/, Műcsarnok, Budapest
- 2016 “Metamorphosis”, Cork Gallery, Hajdúböszörmény