Katonas Imre: Mai magyar kerámia. (A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Füzetei 14. Pécs, 1968)
on the exhibition are interesting besides their artistic features technically, because it is made possible by the application of a fine copper net of plastic formation. His interesting vases of exciting shape as well as his bowls, and his construction composed statically are striking. His so-called ,,coloured ceramic window pane" is also a new way of technical problem solving. The possibilities of this work of art are not completely utilized but they are not difficult to predict. Margit Kovács exhibits her terracottas without enamel. Of the young artists Árpád Csekovszky's works are considerable. He has succeeded to abandon his previous „idol-period", and now he exhibits compositions of many figures, which investigate the differentaspects of form and space. János Németh is to be considered for his full-blooded plastic pieces. His cock-figure higher than half a metre is one of the most beautiful animal figure at the exhibition. János Pap's „matyó" couple is characteristic first of all, with its particular decorated features. Éva Kumposzt's vase-like humorous figures created on disc deserve attention. Gyula Végvári exhibits his bowls reminding of folk pottery, and his coloured ceramic wall-pictures. Gyula Végvári has won the Munkácsy Prize for his works and for his exhibition in Faenza. Gyula Végvári lives in Hódmezővásárhely in the Great Hungarian Plain. Before the liberation, László Németh, the great Hungarian writer, also lived there. He took his themes from the life of this town for many of his dramas (Égető Eszter, etc.). János Tornyai, suggesting the social tensions of the atmosphere of the Great Hungarian Plain, in vivid colours, in his pictures, also belongs to this town. The colours of Gyula Végvári 's ceramics are also characterized by the same tone. The majority of the young ceramists has preserved, as well as the representatives of the first generation, the inspiration of our folk ceramics. The inspiration of this folk art has grown in intensity through the young ceramists who have come to live in the capital from different villages. Beside the influence of the folk art the effects of European art may also be pointed out in our art of ceramics. The influence of European art may be pointed out, first of all, in its summerizing, solid, more composed way of expression, in the clarity of structure and construction characteristic of different Western stylistic currents. The influence of Western style may be observed mainly in the architectural ceramics, which takes its origin from its capability of adapting itself to static elements in modern architecture.
