The interventionist art of Mihály Biró / Masters of Faits Divers-Painting VI: Conflicts and Flames (Update January )


Feature: The interventionist art of Mihály Biró 
Mihály Biró´s graphic cycle „Horthy“ (1920) has lost none of its explosive nature, quite the contrary. The eponymous Regent Miklós Horthy, who was internationally made responsible for the White Terror and the anti-Semitic pogroms in Hungary is currently vindicated by the ruling party of Viktor Orbán
Feature: Die interventionistische Kunst von Mihály Biró
Mihály Birós graphischer Zyklus „Horthy“ (1920) hat nichts von seiner Brisanz eingebüßt. Der namensgebende Reichsverweser Miklós Horthy, der international für den weißen Terror und die antismeitischen Pogrome in Ungarn verantwortlich gemacht wurde, erfährt mittlerweile im feudal-nationalistischen Klima unter Viktor Orbán eine breite Rehabilitierung
Pictorial: Masters of Faits Divers-Painting VI: Conflicts and Flames
The depiction of social conflicts, of strikes, riots and mobs was one of the main subjects of  special artists and faits divers-painters at the turn of the century. Some of them became masters of pictorial mass choreography and cataclysmic sceneries.