GYERMEK- ÉS FIATALSÁGSZEMLÉLET KOSZTA JÓZSEF LEÁNYGYERMEK-ÁBRÁZOLÁSAIN
THE IMAGERY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN JÓZSEF KOSZTA’S VISUAL PRESENTATION OF GIRLS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I attempt to give an iconological analysis of the visual presentation of girls from the standpoint of historical research of children imagery. My objective is to look into the visual and notional imagery of children in the period of crisis of dualism present in small-town environment, through the motifs of young girls’ lives and metaphors of existence such as geraniums, cats and reading. My methods of research combine several forms of visual approach, however in the present review only the hermeneutical approach was possible. On course of paintings analysis – beyond interpreting and comparing symbols and attributes – I emphasize the forms of social consciousness and experience, for which my starting points are the works of Norbert Schneider and Arnold Hauser. I draw conclusions on the realization of the so-called expressive realism and folk painting, the social-cultural features present in the visuals, as well as the stereotypes and perceptions regarding young girls’ lives. The given anthropological space, symbolism of colours and metaphors of existence allow us to say that Koszta’s girl characters carry the stern ways of small-town life; their being projects ahead the mature women’s shyness and humble obedience to “fate”, or conditio humana, ruled out for their social class.

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