Kovács Zita, N.: Baky Péter. Találkozások - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 37. (Baja, 2020)

place before our eyes in a sometimes logical, sometimes illogical order. This playful and bizarre drama defines the art of Péter Baky in a fundamental way, its most essential feature up to this day. Cheer and humor, faith and hope, literacy and imagination, objective observation and emotional adventure are associated with each other in his oeuvre, testifying to the inexhaustible spirit of their author. They express the natural desire of the creative man: his aspiration to collect his personal memories and experiences on paper.

The contact of Péter Baky's painting with figurality, surrealism and symbolism can also be interpreted as an anachronistic phenomenon. In his graphics and colourful pitt chalk panels we can discover that the human body is not only an anatomical 'entity', but also the seat of inner spiritual and mental centers, an infinite range of signs and symbols, a divisible, sometimes almost immaterial consistency surface, and the signs and ornaments defining the space are written on it in a montage-like manner.

In one group of his paintings he goes back to one of the main themes of symbolism: the image of the Eros dominated Woman appears, but with his subsequent reminiscence - quoting the erotic heated figures of Gustav Klimt or Egon Schiele - it becomes a poetic, idealized representation

of beauty and femininity without ostentation. The other group of his works consists of the scenes of Old and New Testament of Scripture, its symbolic, contemporary transcripts, visual interpretations, accompanied by lyrical respectful memories, paraphrases, personal confessions as they become symbols. Works created in memory of great actors, poets, musicians, and artists, are sometimes conceived at a turning point in personal destiny, sometimes they are merely a respectful artistic gesture and create new dimensions.

The real essence of his works, his thoughts, his pictorial world, his symbols usually lies in the fact that the meaning fluctuates between the decipherable and the indecipherable.

Symbolist Odilon Redon is quoted as saying: "a picture teaches nothing; it attracts, surprises, fevers, and imperceptibly and purely out of love makes us demand to learn to live with the beautiful, to uplift and to straighten the human spirit, that is all."