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Tihámer Gyarmathy

Tihámer Gyarmathy

Born March 8 1915, Pécs
Died January 9 2005, Budapest

Hungarian painter, graphics, photogram and installation artist. Representative of post-war abstract art in Hungary, member of Európai Iskola (European School, 1945) and founding member of Elvont Művészek Magyarországi Csoportja (Hungarian Group of Abstract Artists) and Galéria a 4 Világtájhoz (Gallery to the 4 Points of the Compass, 1946). Known as an outstanding colourist working with the duality of lyrical abstraction and geometric construction and working in abstract surrealism with works aiming to establish, diversify, make contextual sequences of a cosmic-natural scientific worldview, the reappearing colour and form language, and the kinetic effects are determinative. Gyarmathy’s theoretical writings are also known. After the „Year of Change”, turning his back on the official art politics prohibiting abstract art, he secluded into an inner exile and from the early 1960s he barely participated in the official art world although he kept creating besides his day job. From the early 1960s first abroad, later in Hungary, his work was publicised again, greatly influencing the younger generation as one of the most outstanding representative of the classical Avant-garde.
(Katalin Balázs)


painting, experimental movies, photograms, avant-garde, abstract art, nonfigurative art, graphics, Not in map
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