George Baloghy is a prominent New Zealand artist. He is a painter, preferring to paint with oil on canvas.
He was born in 1950 in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 as a refugee. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic He was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and at the University of Auckland from which he graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1977. St Peters College is a college for year 7 to 13 boys and offers a Catholic education to its students The University of Auckland (Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau is New Zealand 's largest University. The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded in 1890 by John Edward Elam is a part of Auckland University. He has had 27 major solo exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia, commencing in 1978.
Baloghy's style can be called a particular kind of realism, where major elements are altared and shifted around for dramatic effect. Some of these paintings are close to fiction, yet attempt to narrate a greater truth of the feeling of place. The realism depicted has been described by John Daly-Peoples as being more like paintings of models of the landscape. John Daly-Peoples is an influential Auckland arts critic and correspondent Heightened edges and colours produce a sharpness of detail and an atmosphere that is at once familiar, yet faintly alien. Many of his works contain references to other painters and paintings.
Baloghy lives and works in Auckland and Hahei Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country Hahei is a small settlement near Cathedral Cove on the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Many of the subjects of his paintings are in those places. In 2007 he completed a major series of paintings of Wellington subjects. Wellington (ˈwælɪŋtən is the Capital of New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area, the
Baloghy is currently focusing on iconic pieces of New Zealand art, producing parodic interpretations of signature New Zealand regional paintings such as Robin White's Mangaweka and Christopher Perkins 1931 painting Taranaki. Robin White may refer to Robin White (journalist, BBC journalist and playwright Robin White (tennis, professional tennis player Christopher Edward Perkins (born 21 September 1891 at Peterborough, England, died Ipswich, Suffolk, 8 April In painting these works Baloghy has intimately studied the painting techniques of several important New Zealand artists such as Colin McCahon, Don Binney, Rita Angus and Bill Hammond and replicated it with himself (and his car) located in their works. Colin John McCahon ( August 1, 1919, Timaru, New Zealand - May 27, 1987, Auckland) was a prominent Rita Angus ( 12 March 1908 - 27 January 1970) was a New Zealand painter William (Bill Hammond (born Christchurch, 1947 is a New Zealand artist Some of the artists parodied have themselves been students of Baloghy. [1]
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Reference Sources
- E. M. Caughey, New Zealand Art Today, Saint Publishing (2002) Limited, Auckland, 2002, pp. 10 and 11.
- George Baloghy, Wellington Pictures 2007, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, 2007.
- Kelly Andrew, Shifting reality, The Dominion Post, Wednesday, 24 October 2007.
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