Hann Ferenc: Vaszkó Erzsébet (Szentendre, 1983)

even reaches the point of monochromic painting. Some other time she draws harmonious compositions with warm browns and yellows, based on the bloomy character of crayons.

It scarcely happens that she takes a step towards the playful, jaunty, gay side of art. The nature of Vaszkó’s art is essentially grave and somber, with a rather tragic taste.

This melancholic overtone by no means results in resignation, or in exclusion of wordly pleasures. It means the negation of Idyll at All Cost (in other words: visual cliché, truism or platitude).

You can always discover a starting point from factual reality in her mysterious pictures, but its earth-bound concreteness is transmitted to another sphere, throwing light upon new and new interpretations.

Erzsébet Vaszkó’s artistic attitude is both poetic and objective, ironic and severe, wise and fallible, serious and humorous, intellectual and emotional. Her pictures can be harmonious as well as restlessly vibrating.

She has always aimed at completeness, and an ethical, respectable oeuvre proves this was not in vain.

This booklet was compiled for her retrospesctive show at Szentendre Gallery, in the hope that it can satisfy even an uninformed, unprejudiced visitor that this painter has a significant position in contemporary Hungarian arts.