„Festő voltam és vagyok” Gondolatok Kmetty János kései műveiről
“I was and I am a painter” (Reflections on János Kmetty’s late paintings)

Summary/Abstract: The essay’s aim is to familiarize János Kmetty´s personality with the reader primarily by analyzing his self-portraits in old age from the 60´s and the 70´s. However, it also gives an introduction to Kmetty´s entire artistic oeuvre. Quotations from the painter’s autobiographic writings “Önéletírások” provide further help to comprehend the story of a socially sensitive Central-European painter´s struggles to maintain his inner balance and moral stature amidst the turmoil of the 20th century. The esssy also encapsulates Kmetty´s quest for answers to artistic questions of the time.

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