The Budapest
Nights SeriesBy Marjorie
Pratt- Rosenberg and Aida Abou El Hesen
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Paintings
above, are a part of the “The Budapest Nights Series” a famous
work of the artist representing his avant-garde neo cubism genre.
This series consisted of a set of 14 ultra modern paintings
influenced by several historical and social events that happened in
Hungary and surrounding countries during the Soviet Regime. The
artist has spent some time in Budapest and mingled with local
artists, debated with historians, visited forgotten monuments and
shared the feelings and memories of the Hungarian people whom he
loved very intensely. The artist devoted years of life studying the
music of the great Hungarian composer and conductor Baltock. It was
noted in essays and articles that de La Croix ultra modern neo
cubistic creation originated in the studying of the work of Kassimir
Malevich and the Hungarian Gypsy Music of Hungary.
The fourth painting
is very interesting because it shows the influence of
the minimalism art movement of New York back in the sixties. De La
Croix’s paintings are known to be very intense and intellectually
complex but in many cases we see quite the opposite. A simple
composition, a few lines, or no lines at all in some of his Malevich
conceptual work. But always, intellectually conceived and
constructed. This style appears to attract the attention of American
students of the art and modern art posters collectors. European
students of the art and modern art lovers preferred the heavily
charged and intellectually condensed paintings of de La Croix. Two
different approaches to understanding the artist. But, frankly, who
really does understand art. Is art a question of learning and
teaching or a“ from within” feeling and indirect invitation to feel
one with the artist’s painting? This question remains without
convincing answers.

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