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János Kass: Triptichon
Mozaik Publishing House, Szeged, 2005
120 p., full with illustrations
As we look at the etchings of ?The Tragedy of Man?, following the taste and embracing of the lines, the place and level of stress, we can feel the fragrance of the dark-brown wax sheet that was laid on the copperplate. We think we can see the elegant line glistening in golden light that shines forth behind the etching-needle ? the mark of the Master.
The drawings of ?Bluebeard's Castle? are Bartokian value on graphic sheets. It is Kass? graphic toolbox: as the decoratively thundering forms, blacks, reds and blues mark out the white field on the sheet to conjure up ? like pieces of jewellery ? elegant drawings.
On the pages of the ?Psalmus Hungaricus? he raises us up to the atmosphere of psalms as he writes on the pure-white surface of the dignified silence and highlights the graphic strength of the dynamic, deliberately compressed forms. Over the black lines of the drawings, he flicks the mark of the glowing red pastel chalk as a summary of artistic message and vision.
Ferenc Deák: Letter and Drawing
Mozaik Publishing House, Szeged, 1999
204 p.
A surprising exchange of functions has happened here between the written word and the scribbled picture, because while in other books the illustrations accompany literary texts, in this publication the drawings play the main roles.
The graphic author, due to the character of the venture, in his own style, makes confessions about the book designer?s trade in drawings and transforms interested people into ?spectators reading pictures?.
This publication also contains book plans and their variations conceived while work was in progress, variations which remained hidden among the rest of the artist?s sketches after publishing the final versions. If we examine them, however, the whole procedure and rate of designing can be observed, in which not only the successes, but also the detours and dead-ends can serve as lessons with an intention to restart.
