A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historiae Literarum et Artium, 2. (Szeged, 1999)

Szuromi Pál: Egy földközeli festőpoéta. Lóránt János Demeter munkásságáról

„Most Mezőtúron vagyok - túl a Körösön, de ha megyek pár kilométert a gáton, saját horgászhelyemmel szemben tudok..." pecázni.

16 Ez pedig felérhet egy közvetlen jellegű békésszentandrási üdvözlettel. IRODALOM BOSNYÁK SÁNDOR (összeáll.) 1985 A néphagyomány vonzásában. Bp. Múzsák MEDNYÁNSZKY LÁSZLÓ 1960 naplója. Szerk. BRESTYÁNSZKY ILONA. Bp. Képzőművészeti Alap MENYHÁRT LÁSZLÓ 1982 Vihar előtt. Beszélgetés Lóránt Jánossal. Művészet, 9. sz. SUPKA MAGDOLNA 1998 Lóránt János Demeter. Szolnok, Tisza Kft. SZABÓ С SZILÁRD 1994 Ez a lapos föld ad biztonságot. Délmagyarország, júl. 18. 6. ZOLNAY LÁSZLÓ 1986 Hírünk és hamvunt Bp. Magvető A down-to-earth painter-poet The life-work of Demeter János Lóránt Pál Szuromi Demeter János Lóránt is one of the most genuine representatives of contemporary Hungarian painting. He was still a quite young man when he established a typically concise, monochromatic and lyrical tone of mastery, and he modified his style only in the second half of the eighties. Since that time, his pictorial art has been colorful, full of vigor and irony. The present study sets out to explore the three and a half decades of this artistic career. Biographical moments flare up in his art while he also gets down to elaborating thematic and aesthetic analyses of the major works. He wonders what kinds of relationships are hidden between personal qualities and the developments in artistic mastery. Also, he seeks to identify a system represented in thematic and formal changes of the pictures. The analyses reveal the important role of the austere and industrial environment (that of Salgótarján) in the formation of Lóránt's style. It is also important to point out the great Hungarian masters that he started off to follow (Egry, István Nagy, Berény, László Mednyánszky). His true virtue is his ability to adjust those pictorial traditions to his personality. He has managed to remain laconic and puritan while at the same time maintaining a lyrical sensitivity. It is interesting to note how important the experience of nature and, at the same time, childhood 16 SUPKA MAGDOLNA 1998.1. 168