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LANTOS, Ferenc
LANTOS, Ferenc
<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Painter, graphic designer, art teacher
(Pécs, 20th February 1929)
Lantos acquired his diploma at the painting teaching faculty of the College of Fine Arts in 1964. By this time however, he already produced a significant artistic oeuvre. He worked in the city of Pécs, and considered Ferenc Martyn his master, who he became acquainted with at the age of 16. 1965: the Artistic Award of the County of Pécs-Baranya; 1977: the Artistic Award of the city of Pécs. 1993: Munkácsy Award; 1998: Pro Civitate Award. Between 1970 and 1972 he worked at the City Design Institute of the city of Pécs, designing primarily façades and interior decorations from enamel for public buildings. He dealt with teaching from 1952. He was the organizer and founder of the fine arts educational faculty of the Secondary School of Arts in Pécs. Among his pupils were the group of new-constructivist and conceptual artists of the 1970’s, and the members of the Pécsi Műhely /Workshop of Pécs/ founded partly by him (Ferenc Ficzek, Károly Halász, Károly Kismányoki, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Kálmán Szíjártó, and many others). He also taught at the Teachers’ Training College and Technical College of Pécs. He led a number of fine arts camps in Tokaj (1969–1979), Paks (1979–1985), and Annamellék (from 1988), and fine arts workshops (e.g.: Pécsi Vizuális Műhely /Visual Workshop of Pécs/ 1979–1985). He presently teaches at the Art Faculty of the Janus Pannonius Arts University of Pécs. He acquired his DLA level in 1997. Lantos is the head of the Free Arts School of Pécs. Together with Mária Apagyi he developed a complex fine arts and musical pedagogical method from 1968. He is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. The oeuvre of Lantos strengthens the autonomy of Pécs, the cultural and artistic center of the southern Transdanubian region. His painting career started during the course of the 1950’s, from the style of “spectacle painting”, then, finding the structure and color compositional possibilities of landscapes, interiors, human figures, and still-life pieces, reached a Mondrian Abstraction during the course of the 1960’s. The variation, combinational, permutation, systemizing, etc., ambitions of international geometric art also had an influence on his works, however his own art the strict consistency of the foreign examples was eased by his systematic, “comprehensible” mode of expression resultant of his didactic, teaching endeavors. The basic theme of his variation system is a square web, in which the traversing of arches and straight lines bring forth a sectioning of the surface which is recurrent, and filled with colors. The rotation of such structures, and their projection onto one another brought forth the “interference” typical of his works around 1980. He did not however stop continuing his reference to the mathematical regularities, which may be observed in organic forms (for instance: the Fibonacci-Line, and his golden etchings). His primary mediums are those of oil and acrylic paintings; however for the preparation of mural works he also makes use of industrial enamel. Lantos also prepares sifter-prints, and continuously draws. He began dealing with the optical effects of dense parallel, horizontal lines from the 1970’s. The series entitled Vibrációk /Vibrations/ (1982) was produced from these experiments, while the further development of these parallels into streaks, and the building of facture layers, placed onto one another, lead to musical structures (Vonal nagyítások /Line magnifications/ 1979-1985; Szólamok /Trebles/, 1992; Hangzások /Resonance/, 1996). Later on in his career the role of the right-angled square-web was repositioned more and more. Slanting lines of different angles crossed over his surfaces, and his orderly motifs were split into segments. The subjective impasto of geometry was mixed with expressive facture. In his final years Lantos reached a liberated, colorful “eclectic” style without giving up his earlier intellectualism.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Painter, graphic designer, art teacher
(Pécs, 20th February 1929)
Lantos acquired his diploma at the painting teaching faculty of the College of Fine Arts in 1964. By this time however, he already produced a significant artistic oeuvre. He worked in the city of Pécs, and considered Ferenc Martyn his master, who he became acquainted with at the age of 16. 1965: the Artistic Award of the County of Pécs-Baranya; 1977: the Artistic Award of the city of Pécs. 1993: Munkácsy Award; 1998: Pro Civitate Award. Between 1970 and 1972 he worked at the City Design Institute of the city of Pécs, designing primarily façades and interior decorations from enamel for public buildings. He dealt with teaching from 1952. He was the organizer and founder of the fine arts educational faculty of the Secondary School of Arts in Pécs. Among his pupils were the group of new-constructivist and conceptual artists of the 1970’s, and the members of the Pécsi Műhely /Workshop of Pécs/ founded partly by him (Ferenc Ficzek, Károly Halász, Károly Kismányoki, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Kálmán Szíjártó, and many others). He also taught at the Teachers’ Training College and Technical College of Pécs. He led a number of fine arts camps in Tokaj (1969–1979), Paks (1979–1985), and Annamellék (from 1988), and fine arts workshops (e.g.: Pécsi Vizuális Műhely /Visual Workshop of Pécs/ 1979–1985). He presently teaches at the Art Faculty of the Janus Pannonius Arts University of Pécs. He acquired his DLA level in 1997. Lantos is the head of the Free Arts School of Pécs. Together with Mária Apagyi he developed a complex fine arts and musical pedagogical method from 1968. He is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. The oeuvre of Lantos strengthens the autonomy of Pécs, the cultural and artistic center of the southern Transdanubian region. His painting career started during the course of the 1950’s, from the style of “spectacle painting”, then, finding the structure and color compositional possibilities of landscapes, interiors, human figures, and still-life pieces, reached a Mondrian Abstraction during the course of the 1960’s. The variation, combinational, permutation, systemizing, etc., ambitions of international geometric art also had an influence on his works, however his own art the strict consistency of the foreign examples was eased by his systematic, “comprehensible” mode of expression resultant of his didactic, teaching endeavors. The basic theme of his variation system is a square web, in which the traversing of arches and straight lines bring forth a sectioning of the surface which is recurrent, and filled with colors. The rotation of such structures, and their projection onto one another brought forth the “interference” typical of his works around 1980. He did not however stop continuing his reference to the mathematical regularities, which may be observed in organic forms (for instance: the Fibonacci-Line, and his golden etchings). His primary mediums are those of oil and acrylic paintings; however for the preparation of mural works he also makes use of industrial enamel. Lantos also prepares sifter-prints, and continuously draws. He began dealing with the optical effects of dense parallel, horizontal lines from the 1970’s. The series entitled Vibrációk /Vibrations/ (1982) was produced from these experiments, while the further development of these parallels into streaks, and the building of facture layers, placed onto one another, lead to musical structures (Vonal nagyítások /Line magnifications/ 1979-1985; Szólamok /Trebles/, 1992; Hangzások /Resonance/, 1996). Later on in his career the role of the right-angled square-web was repositioned more and more. Slanting lines of different angles crossed over his surfaces, and his orderly motifs were split into segments. The subjective impasto of geometry was mixed with expressive facture. In his final years Lantos reached a liberated, colorful “eclectic” style without giving up his earlier intellectualism.
