To break up the winter doldrums , I present to you a painting satisfy with the joys of bound : Hungarian artist Pál Szinyei - Merse ’s " Lark,“ paint in 1882 .
1 . " Lark" is interchangeable in root word to Pál Szinyei - Merse ’s " Picnic in May . “ Szinyei - Merse painted " Lark" 9 geezerhood later , but was still capable to paint the landscape from memory . For the nude , however , he called in a model .
2 . Szinyei - Merse was a scrap ahead of his time , at least in Hungary , and so he appreciate the indigence for art education . As a member of Parliament , he supported the modernization of art teaching . He also do as the director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Budapest and helped found Hungary ’s first society of New art , the Circle of Hungarian Impressionists and Naturalists , in 1908 .
3 . rise up on commonwealth in the countryside , Szinyei - Merse was able to spend much of his time outdoors . age later , he publish in a letter to his don , " I have decide to follow one teacher only as my conduct adept : Nature . “
4 . After widely experiencing rejection of " Picnic in May,“ Szinyei - Merse ’s house painting dwindle away . He put out to his family estate and be as a man - farmer for 20 age , until 1896 , when his works became more appreciated . He then won several Au and silver medals , and theUffizi Gallery of Florenceasked forhis ego - portraiture .
5 . Although he go his lifetime as a Hungarian , Szinyei - Merse was declared a Slovak after his death . In 1920 , just four months after he died , the Trianon Treaty between the Allies and Hungary was signed . Hungary drop off two - thirds of its dominion and inhabitants , including Szinyei - Merse ’s hometown , to the fresh formed Czechoslovakia .
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