Szilasi Ágota, H.: Víz - fény-szín-tér. Stílusvariációk egy technikára. Egri Országos Akvarell Biennálé 1968-2004 a Dobó István Vármúzeum kortárs akvarell gyűjteménye (Eger, 2006)

Árpád SZABADOS (1944)

Born in Szeged, he is currently living in Budapest. He studied under Lajos Szentiványi and Sándor Ék and Károly Raszler at the Hungarian College of Art, where he himself has taught since 1984. A Munkácsy prizewinner, his art integrates an expressive and surrealistic outlook with the world of children's drawings, something he later combines with techniques normally associated with conceptual art, and photography in particular. From the end of the 1980s the formal world of graffiti and the tonality of the new wave begin to appear in his paintings and drawings. He has managed to fuse a number of different impulses into a unified approach combining delicate line drawing, a photographic mode of composition, an anguished view of a world weighed down by the perpetual confl ict.

Emil SZEKERES (1934)

Born in Kaposvár. He graduated from the Hungarian College of Art in 1961, where he studied under János Kmetty, György Kádár and Jenő Barcsay. In his early works he persisted with the depiction of the formal appearance of objects and their formal relations, executed in fields of dark colour outlined with thick contours. From the 1970s his paintings began to veer towards the symbolic where his enigmatically cheerful compositions were based on a bright palette. One characteristic element in his art is the use of complementary and contrasting colours, expressing either tranquillity or conflict. He excels in a number of painted media, particularly the watercolour.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1974 and 1984 Imre SZEMETHY(1945)

Born in Budapest, where he continues to live. He attended the Hungarian College of Art where his teachers were Jenő Barcsay, Sándor Ék and Géza Főnyi. A Munkácsy prize winner and Artist of Merit, his pictures contain several detailed figures floating in space. In about 1970 he developed an ironic, absurd, surrealistic mode of magical realism, in which a scattering of material fragments occupied the pictorial space. From the end of the 1980s his compositions become less dense, with the chosen motifs becoming fewer, yet larger and more detailed. In his work one can also detect a process of abstraction, leading to a more conceptual and abstract mode of expression. Apart from his graphics his detailed and subtle ink and pencil drawings and watercolour washes are particularly worthy of note. His numerous prose and poetry illustrations tend to be pictorial interpretations rather than narrative depictions.

József SZENTGYÖRGYI (1940)

Born in Balatonarács, he graduated from the Hungarian College of Art in 1968, where he studied under György Kádár. He is a member of the Hungarian Artists' Association (1968) and the Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists' Association (1974), and is a Munkácsy prize winner. A superb colourist, he has been a regular exhibitor since 1968. His pictures are the icons of an autonomous humanistic mythology. When his artistic vision requires it, he is prepared to venture towards the figurative. It is at this point that the patches of colour light up with the explosive

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