14.10-14.30

Csaba HEGYI (Pécs University, Hungary)

Face of God on the Hungarian ornament


The uneasy symbiosis between evil eye and beauty that has characterized some aspects of Hungarian folk ornaments. Traditional and modern Hungarian textile motifs, cross-stitch embroidery and digital pixel images. Mosaic pictures and icon paintings in relation to the age of digital photography. Deep understanding of aniconism over idolatry and iconoclasm. Axis and fields and the hyperbolic geometry as symbolic form. Some pictures: aquarelles of József Huszka; homespun of Erzsébet Bódis and Erzsébet Kozma; drawings of Béla Veszelszky; “photo mosaics” of Miklós Erdély; paintings of Dezső Korniss and Ilona Keserü Ilona.

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