Istvan horkay biography

István Horkay (born December 25, 1945, in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, digital artist, member of the HEAA.
István Horkay, freelance graphic artist, poster designer, animator and filmmaker has a great significance in Hungarian cultural life.
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Istvan Horkay

Hungarian painter (born 1945)

István Horkay (born December 25, 1945, in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, digital artist, member of the HEAA^[1]

After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1964, Horkay was invited to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow -Poland, one of the Major Art and Cultural Centers of Eastern Europe, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1968) and did additional Post graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. (1971) Horkay studied under the Internationally known Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor as well as Professors M. Wejman, J. Nowosielski, and Palle Nielsen, Danmark. He received Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation.
He is member of the Alliance Graphique International (AGI), Hungarian Electrographic Art Association.

Horkay's art is epitomic in the double meaning of the word: a fragment, an incised part of something already in existence, and - just because of this inci

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István Horkay, Hungary

AGI member since 2017

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Also noted a painter, applied graphic artist, and filmmaker, Horkay mastered his mature and confident technical knowledge in a pluralistic artistic environment pregnant with a variety of styles and trends. The message of his surreal posters, which move the viewer’s imagination, is carried by the unstable symmetry of compositional elements forced into strict equilibrium situations, but also playfully tilted out of them. It follows from the picturesque inspiration of Horkay’s works that typography never becomes an integral part of pictorial representation. The texts function as a reference field, giving the key to interpreting what is seen. The characters in the posters are typically Central European, Kafkaesque figures who are the heroes of the fictional mythology of our subconscious world. The metaphorical language of the posters is given by the prolific interplay of seemingly contradictory, yet brought into symbiosis, or assmbled like elements of a collage.
His particular graphics, collages, photo transcripts and

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Istvan Horkay was born in 1945 in Budapest, Hungary. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1964, Horkay was invited to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow -Poland, the Major Art and Cultural Center of Eastern Europe, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1968) and did additional Post graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. (1971) Horkay studied under the Internationally know Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor, as well as Professors, M. Wejmann and J. Nowosielski, Poland/Palle Nielsen/Danmark. He received Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation. He has three children Hes spent a lot of time in the USA. Allentown PA., New York NY, Phoenix AZ, Melbourne FL. Between 1976-2001. Studio 9843 N 48th Place, Paradise Valley. Arizona.

Kleist once wrote: The Poet would be happiest if he could express his Thoughts without Words. (What an interesting Admission! wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.) Someone, Somewhere is how I title my Works, thinking o