Miklós Borsos
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Hungary
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sculptor. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism
Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...
with modern
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
elements.
Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania
Transylvania
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(present-day Sibiu
Sibiu
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, Romania
Romania
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), he and his family settled in Győr
Gyor
-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...
in 1921; Borsos and his wife lived in the same Győr house until the end of World War II
World War II
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He became interested in art and particularly sculpture in the late 1920s (although he initially began as a painter, he dedicated his interest to sculpture during the 1930s, and became accomplished in the latter art by 1940). Up to the end of the 1940s, Borsos' art was tightly connected to the modern Hungarian plastic art represented by Fülöp Ö. Beck
Fülöp Ö. Beck
Beck Ö. Fülöp was a Hungarian sculptor noted for his medal sculptures of Endre Ady, Sándor Petõfi, Ferenc Liszt, Mihály Babits and Kelemen Mikes creating over 500 in his career...
, Béni Ferenczy
Béni Ferenczy
Béni Ferenczy was a Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist.Born the son of Károly Ferenczy, he studied art in Munich and Paris where he studied with both Bourdelle and Archipenko His art became mature after he had returned from emigration in Germany and the Soviet Union.After his experiences with...
, and Ferenc Medgyessy
Ferenc Medgyessy
Ferenc Medgyessy was a Hungarian sculptor and physician. After graduating in medicine he studied art in Paris, later he studied Michelangelo's and the Etruscan art in Florence. His art was dominated by folk realism.-External links:*...
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From about 1950 onwards, his developed more intellectual
Intellectual
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, abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
, and experimental approaches. Borsos's form of expression and the subjects of his art were connected with the intensity of his experiences and views.
Borsos made use of all sculptural genres, and enriched them with several new solutions. He developed embossing
Repoussé and chasing
Repoussé or repoussage is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. There are few techniques that offer such diversity of expression while still being relatively economical...
of copper
Copper
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plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places and sepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values). Borsos also became focused on portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
art during the late 1950s and 1960s, where his work integrated aspects of nature, atmosphere, as well as cultural and spiritual traditions into a new genre of sculptural art. Works of this period include the Portrait of József Egry (1952), Sybilla Pannonica (1963), Lighea (1968), The Young Parca (1964), and Canticus Canticorum (1977).
In 1979 Borsos opened the Miklós Borsos Art Gallery in Győr, formerly a courthouse of the Győr Bishopric
Roman Catholic Diocese of Gyor
The Diocese of Győr is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. The diocese is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest. The diocese is believed to have been established in 1009 by King Stephen I of Hungary, along with most of the other Hungarian dioceses.The...
. It is situated in the oldest neighbourhood of the city, near the Saint Michael Chapel.