la cultura pop eb hungría

1. Pop Art in Hungary
In the 50’s and 60’s ,when
Popart was introduced in
the States and Great
Britain, there was no
Coke , no Campbell tomato
soup , no pop culture in
Hungary. Consumer
society did not exist in our
country ,instead we had
so called ‘shortage
economy’ , ’rationing
system’ and Soviet-style
dictatorship.

3. Csáji Attila: Komplementer színek számokkal /
Complementary colors with numbers (1973 )
After the 56
revolution slowly
but surely things
got a bit better.
In ’65 Hungarian
Pop Art
appeared,
However,the best
works were made
in the 70’s.

4. Csáji Attila: A haladás kettős
szimbóluma / The double
symbol of progression (1970)
So the next difference is
that Hungarian artists
didn’t use everyday objects
of consumer society in
their works, but symbols
of communism ,like red
,five-pointed star or
‘hammer and sickle’ or
even images of communist
politicians.

5. Fogyasztói kultúra fogyasztói társadalom nélkül /
Consumer culture without consumer society
Artists protested
against dictatorship
and communism, as a
result ,most Hungarian
Pop Art artists ‘ works
were prohibited , some
of them were not
allowed to exhibit for
40 years until the
‘Changes’.

6. Veszely Ferenc: Képregény /
Comic (1974)
The techniques
used are the
same: screen
prints,
collages, combin
e
paintings, assem
blage.