{"id":47111,"date":"2019-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vandorfeny.hu\/spring\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:00:00","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vandorfeny.hu\/en\/spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling, clinging, scrabbling, but we all feel that this winter will soon be over. Slowly the snowdrops and the goldenrod are coming, the buds are bursting, the migratory birds are returning<em>(and we&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed that the brandy trees don&#8217;t freeze&#8230;)<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe are lucky to have the Carpathian Basin as our home, because we can enjoy the beauty of all the seasons and for many of us spring is the most beautiful of all. <\/p>\n<p>With the arrival of the new season, we can feel the general improvement in our mood, and that of our fellow human beings. Cleaning, sorting, tidying up gardens and other preparations can begin<em>(but<\/em> <em>our regular customers already know that this shouldn&#8217;t be at the expense of our weekend exhibitions!<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p>In our current post, we focus on the spring, we would like to present the blossoming and renewal that can be felt in the V\u00e1ndorf\u00e9ny Gallery, thanks to both our creative community and our small team. Moreover, we are in the unique position that, due to the nature of the artworks, this season and its positive, soul-warming effect is always present in our exhibitions and in our gallery<em>. Our aim is for you to experience it in your home, so we can only encourage our readers to buy the art!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any decent review will look back to Roman times. Well, for the ancient Romans, March was the first month of the year, and the beginning of the New Year coincided with the Ides of March. The god of Mars, by the way, used to celebrate military festivities. The April ceremonies had a completely different purpose, because it was a month of fertility: they were celebrated and sacrifices were made for the abundant harvest of grain, the reproduction of livestock and the reproductive capacity of women. May was a time of subsequent growth and anxiety about the harvest, with atonement ceremonies, fasting and various prohibitions (such as marriage).    <\/p>\n<p>With a little jump in time and space, let&#8217;s take a look at the main spring traditions in Hungarian folklore and Christian festivals. The old name for the month of March is Lent<em>(you can find it in our annual desk calendar, alongside the many works and biographies<\/em>), which means that it is the second month of the forty-day Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday, a time of religious reflection. Flower Sunday commemorates Jesus&#8217; final entry into Jerusalem. To commemorate this, a baptism of Bark is celebrated with a procession. According to popular tradition, the procession of the bark is held on Palm Sunday, during which girls dress a straw doll in women&#8217;s clothes, carry it through the village and throw it into water or burn it. The well-known song &#8220;Hide, hide the green branch&#8221; is also originally a folk tradition following the planting of the branch, a song of carrying or forking the branch. It is also an old folk tradition to put up a maypole. The tree, decorated with ribbons, is mainly set up by the suitor for the girl, but sometimes the community has its own maypole.       <\/p>\n<p>Spring is a favourite theme of Hungarian lyric poetry, inspiring many poets, including Mih\u00e1ly Csokonai Vit\u00e9z, S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi, Endre Ady, Mih\u00e1ly Babits, Attila J\u00f3zsef, Mikl\u00f3s Radn\u00f3ti, S\u00e1ndor K\u00e1ny\u00e1di; but it was mainly the representatives of impressionist mood lyrics &#8211; Gyula Juh\u00e1sz, Dezs\u0151 Kosztol\u00e1nyi, \u00c1rp\u00e1d T\u00f3th and Lajos \u00c1prily &#8211; who favoured the ancient topos.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at how this time of year is represented in painting, paddling our own waters. Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s 15th-century work Primavera is a highlight, depicting a Roman mythological scene from the Renaissance with Venus and Flora, the goddess of spring, swaying flowers. (Floralia was the ancient Roman celebration of spring, held in April-May with flowers and dancing in the spirit of renewal.) The harmony, elegance and beauty of the picture make it a true masterpiece. Its interpretation is still disputed (it is interpreted as an allegory of fertility, of the lush growth of spring, but also as an expression of the Neoplatonic idea of love), and it is not clear for what occasion it was painted; some explain it as an allegory of the love of Giuliano de Medici and Simonetta Vespucci or of the death of Simonetta. The garden and Flora&#8217;s dress, which is completely unshaded and suggestive of eternity, are adorned with countless flowers; some five hundred species of plants have been identified in the painting, including one hundred and ninety species of flowers.      <\/p>\n<p>Among Hungarian painters, K\u00e1roly Lotz also created his cycle of seasons. The allegory of spring is a painting on a mythological theme with the aforementioned Flora, who is typically depicted scattering flowers. <\/p>\n<p>He was fond of allegorical figures, exemplified by the wall paintings of the Hungarian National Museum, among others. His pupil Istv\u00e1n Cs\u00f3k, and more generally the impressionists of the turn of the century, J\u00f3zsef Rippl-R\u00f3nai or Lajos Kunffy, often painted and used the symbolism of spring as a tool. <\/p>\n<p>We are now at the home stretch, it is time to talk about the rich material of our own artists!<\/p>\n<p>Still life, landscapes, and relevant life and religious images (Easter) are all popular themes for the season.<br \/>\nThousands of works by more than 150 artists abound in spring-inspired art.<br \/>\nTo give you an idea, we can think of Attila Boros&#8217;s loving prints and oil paintings;<br \/>\nL\u00e1szl\u00f3 Budai&#8217;s lovely, spring-like maidens;<br \/>\nZolt\u00e1n K\u00e1rp\u00e1ti&#8217;s blossoming, beautiful female figures;<br \/>\nAng\u00e9la Micsik&#8217;s singing birds of spring;<br \/>\nTarasz Tabaka&#8217;s fragrant flowers;<br \/>\nand of course Zolt\u00e1n Benda&#8217;s and Attila Endrey-Nagy&#8217;s captivating landscapes<\/p>\n<p>On this link <a href=\"https:\/\/vandorfeny.hu\/muveszek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/vandorfeny.hu\/muveszek<\/a> you can choose from a selection of other artists or use our thematic filters (at the bottom of our main page) to search for still life, landscape, etc. <\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you again in the spring in our downtown gallery and at our travelling exhibitions around the country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling, clinging, scrabbling, but we all feel that this winter will soon be over. Slowly the snowdrops and the goldenrod are coming, the buds are bursting, the migratory birds are returning(and we&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed that the brandy trees don&#8217;t freeze&#8230;).&#8221; We are lucky to have the Carpathian Basin as our home, because we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fresh-from"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spring | V\u00e1ndorf\u00e9ny Gal\u00e9ria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vandorfeny.hu\/en\/spring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spring | V\u00e1ndorf\u00e9ny Gal\u00e9ria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Struggling, clinging, scrabbling, but we all feel that this winter will soon be over. 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