Motives from Rural Environment in Fine Art of the 19th Century in Upper Hungary

• Authors: Beňová Katarína

Title variants

SK

Námety z vidieckeho prostredia vo výtvarnom umení 19. storočia v Uhorsku

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on various aspects of the use of the motives from the rural environment in the fine art in region of Upper Hungary during the 19th century. Important source of those motives, quite often in the context of national representation, was the folk culture. The most common contribution to its depiction was the folk clothing, which identified regions rather than objects of daily need. Motives from folk environment are represented at the examples from fine arts, as illustrations or so-called Trachtenbücher or Trachtenblätter (depictions of figures in folk dress), then romantic depictions (applied especially at the work of Jozef Czauczik and Peter Michal Bohúň), and nevertheless foreign rural subjects (Italian and Dalmatian countryside) and their popularity in genre painting. The second half of the 19th century is associated with the adaptation of motives from the folk environment in realism and naturalism, in salon painting and at exhibition presentations, selected examples of folk art manifestations that captured the interest of the time and had an aesthetic effect on society. Even after 1900, the trend of grasping the monitored issue in the intensions of the development of modern art continued. Several artists remained interested in capturing the Slovak landscape and people.

Keywords

EN

countryside; folk dress; fine arts; folk; Upper Hungary; 19th century

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 39 - 55

Contributors

author

Beňová Katarína