Hann Ferenc: Paulovics. Kántor Lajos és Kocsis István írásaival (A PMMI kiadványai. Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága – Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre, 2008)

Hann Ferenc - The artist's career: an overview

Among the new oil paintings, one should note the one called Fates (2007). The three goddesses of human life (in Greek mythology, the Moiras) spin, measure and tear the thread of life, since the beginning of Time. The tripartite composition and the sculpturesque posing of the goddesses awaken the sensation of eternity. Behold the set of drawings portraying some prominent characters of Hungarian culture: Dezső Szabó, Sándor Gellért, János Bartalis, Albert Wass, Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók (with a whole scene from the opera Bluebeard's Castle) and a very close friend, Vilmos Varga, one of the last strolling players, who performed on virtually every stage of Transylvania and the Partium (and visited lately Szentendre, too). Lines seem to fade away on most of the nudes painted recently (Twosome, 2005), or to put it more exactly, they melt into :he vortex of picturesque spots {'Bea', 2003). The newly painted, extremely dynamic Paso dob le (2007) is a unique work, which recalls the perception of the young Nagybánya painters who, after visiting Matisse, came home at the turn of the twentieth century. Moreover, it has some similarity to Ernő Jeges's picture showing a garden restaurant. On the wall of the artist's studio on the Pismány hill, across from the easel, there is the Green nude (2007) showing the impact of the Ecole de Paris, that of the 'neo' artists of Nagybánya, and the new figurative efforts of the end of the century, comprised, by the sensitive psychological filter of László Paulovics, into a coherent structure. Do not be misguided by the many-sidedness of a nearly fifty-year-long career. The 'Peacock Garden of Art' (to use Géza Perneczky's expression) is enormous, and those who walk around in it, cannot see the wnole garden. Some artists walk along one or two paths. Paulovics walks freely, smiling or sorrowfully, in this vast empire. His rich and exciting oeuvre is a proof of his freedom.