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Ladies with bob cuts and bare chests, dressed in art deco robes, flirt with the viewers in the paintings of Attila Gyulai, on the walls of Villa Gyetvai in Balatonfüred.
Balatonfüred is a town where people come not only for the beach, but also for fun. And fun can sometimes mean culture. Villa Gyetvai, a few minutes' walk from the centre of the town, is at once a refreshing wine cellar, an ornate mansion and an exciting museum. The villa was built in 1943 by an innkeeper from Budapest, where it was initially a winery and later converted into a corporate holiday resort. The estate then lay disused for ten years, the gardens were overgrown and the building crumbled, before an architect bought it and revived it.
The owners of Villa Gyetvai want to turn the building into a cultural centre, and this is why the exhibition of Attila Gyulai painter "Female Principles" is housed in the villa. The opening ceremony took place on 13 July and the exhibition will be open until 10 August.
Attila Gyulai has been working in various fields of fine art for 16 years, and in 2005 he decided to bypass classical art education and opt for painting.
He decorated children's rooms, Greek and Italian restaurants - in fact, he painted for a living. The talented man soon realised that he was destined for more than just painting walls: his desire for self-expression grew stronger and stronger alongside the need for making a living.
In 2008, he was introduced to the painter András Bereznay, with whom he studied for three years and also trained himself on a self-taught basis. He has mastered many techniques, and his current exhibition mixes elements of art deco with the precision of human portraiture.
"I've always been interested in the art of the 1920s and 1930s, that dazzling yet decadent world, and I spent a long time trying to understand it. I was fascinated by the opulence, the bourgeois swagger and the cavalcade of female figures. It was also the time when women's short hair, drinking, low-cut dresses and even Coco Chanel's first trousers came into fashion. There was such a change in the feminine principle that I could not pass it by without words - and pictures," says the artist.
In the fourteen works on display, the decorative elements are as important as the colours, a legacy of Art Nouveau itself. Archetypes appear in the paintings, the artist endows women with an infinite mystique, while trying to understand their complexity. But there are also (modernised) paintings of Frida Kahlo and Marilyn Monroe, so that you can recognise specific faces - women who belong in the femme fatale niche.
"Out of hundreds of faces, I tried to pick out the few that expressed something. Each of the women exudes a different emotion: one confidence, another sophistication, a third serenity, and so on. Once the character is captured, I would associate the background colour, pattern, visual elements with that quality - they try to enhance the same feeling that the characters exude. This style is not an abstract thing, I show my intention with each pattern. It's no coincidence that some of the paintings have strong angles, curves and ornamental elements. There is also a hierarchy of colours: purple, red, turquoise and certain shades of gold reflect this princely period," says the artist.
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