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His progress shows a tendency towards expressive
Katalin Samu
Puppy style; he, too, abandons naturalistic delineation.
Particularly lately, his own individual idiom is becoming
Tibor Vilt
Centaur pronounced. Several significant statues for public
places were created by him.
1Lajos Barta
Birds An isolated but specifically Hungarian personality is
Miklos Borsos (born in 1906). Recently, in the summer
of 1965, he had a one-man show at Tihany, one of
Hungary's tourist-centres rising above the lake Balaton,
at an old abbey changed into a museum and protected
as an historic building. Borsos' recent sculptures could
be compared to Brancusi's and Arp's form of expres­
sion; still they represent individual and original ideas.
He makes blocky, modern plastic art. His works rouse
intellectual response, similar to a shock, in many
people, in others, however, they don't find response
but rather opposition because of their unaccustomed
character. Borsos has always been a master in stone;
he has been able to produce playful as well as dramatic
moods out of it. Besides his constructional force, he
has a pictorial sensitiveness to the surface. His recent
period rests on organic preliminaries in his own art.
Tibor Vilt (born in 1905) has also shown his recent
works in a country town: Szekesfehervar. If we want
to place him in modern European art, we may refer
mostly to the Swiss Giacometti. Not so much in the
way of modelling but rather in the spirit of the plastic
starting point of modelling are they related. He is a
strongly expressive artist. His sorrows and joys, his
satirical vein are all throbbing in his works. The Latin
plasticity of form-beauty is subordinated to emotional
style, to intensity, that is, he strives for revealing truth
instead of harmony.
Agamemnon Makrisz (born in 1913), a Greek sculptor,
has lived in Budapest and has become an important
figure of Hungary's fine-arts life. Originally he was
influenced by the French Gimond and Laurens; later

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