Goda Gertrud: Tóth Imre (Officina Musei 11. Miskolc, 2002)

generation - also according to the today's judgement of values could teach the very best artists of fine arts. Between the famous masters it was Jenő Barcsay, who made the album entitled "Artistic Anatomy" during this time, which after it was translated into most great world languages, was also used in all academies of art. For the artist-education between 1948 and 1953 the second big achievement was that they didn't insulate the students. They studied general subjects together with the music and acting students. At this time to the artist-education also belonged a so-called "people's college", where were a lot of possibilities for selfeducation. And at the same time they could also practise there working for the community during their most sensitive years. After the excellent pedagogical instruction of the painter László Bencze Imre Tóth came to the painter Béla Bán, but some other famous professors from his college taught him too: István Szőnyi, Aurél Bernáth, János Kmetty, Róbert Berény, Endre Domanovszky. With greedy thirst for knowledge he learnt everything, what the possibilities of the academy provided: sculpture from Pál Pátzay, graphic arts from Jenő Tarjáni Sinkovits. The Transylvanian Szekler and the love for his profession, which he had inherited from his German ancestors - many of them were craftsmen - had already then become characteristic. And in the progress of years Imre Tóth started watching the world more and more with the sensitivity of an artist. The generation of young Hungarian intellectuals graduated after World War II - at the beginning of the Fifties ( 1953) - were being called "bright winds". For them was the will of knowledge, for the building of a better future, an enthusiastic and maybe romantic believe and that the new order will require a new aesthetical value characteristic. In an interesting way this didn't become the official "socialistic-realistic" idea, but a post-expressionism with an aspect of the fine arts. This artistic direction aims at the taking out of the essence, the emphasising of the subject and in Imre Toth's paintings the consistent adaptation of the clear colours obtains the purity characteristic for his individual form. The artistic life is never without doubt, cogitation and revision of possibilities. After he left college he first became a scholar of the