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Hungarian austerity, Baroque flamboyance
"I would go to church with the family maid and I still see angels in my dreams...
and later, I pondered Baroque works in the Budapest Museum," says this Hungarian refugee, who came to Paris after the 1956 uprising.
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 - "Dormition of Mary", by Tiepolo, Budapest Museum
Her family, like many cultured Hungarians, was of Jewish origin. Heir to a tradition that forbids portraying human beings, that elite was closer to music and writing than it was to the graphic arts.
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 - "Youth"
Such visual austerity may explain why a Jewish child should be fascinated by Baroque art's drama, with its drapery, turbulence and hallucination.
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- She exhibits internationally...
and appears in the latest Benezit (1999). A recent Parisian exhibit took place at the Luxembourg Museum.
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