Talk:Mihály Zichy

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hi yeah, sorry it's not that im retarted or anything but my spelling is real bad; i'm gonna come back and fix it all nice for you real soon, in the mean time if you want to tidy ir up be my guest.

oh and i wanna split it up into cool catagarys like 'early life' ; 'major artworks' ; 'erotica' ; that sorta thing.

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Mihály Zichy was a Hungarian painter born in 1827 in Zala. In 1842 he started studying law in Pest while also studying art under Jakab Marastoni, who later went on in 1846 to established the First Hungarian Academy of Painting and efectively launched art training in Hungary. Then in 1844 he studied in Vienna under Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, not only a renouned artist in his own right, said to be 'second to none in depicting nature in delicate colours.' He was also a published authority on art education. It was under his tutalige that Zichy produced his first major work, titled "Life Boat" a fairly standard depiction of panic at sea in which all the action is subtaly focused towards the holy cross which is held aloft by an elderly clergyman in the center of the picture. The subtle but powerfull visual metaphore of all hands turning towards god in desperate times is depicted with such grace and candor it leaves no doubt that Zichy had attained already a masterfull grasp of both theoretical and practical art techneque.

With such a brilliant education behind him he could hardly help but continue to turn out beautifull works who's grace and eligant compasiosion would instantly mark them out as masterpieces. Eventualy he went on to become an art teacher in St. Petersburg and impressed Czar Alexander II so much with a series on the 'Gatsina hunting' he was made a court artist. It couldn't hold his attention for long however because in 1871 he left to travel europe for three years before settaling down in Paris and doing some of his most well known work.

His work took a pornoghraphic turn, mainly pencil illistrations made to accompany erotic literatire. The subjects tackled are varied includein; two lesbians engaged in a variety of playfull and loveing embrases, an artist engaged in acts with his model, while many others depict a hetrosexual couple engaged in the many stages and diffrent acts of intercource; these works are in gerneral so graphic that even by todays standards there too explicit for display anywhere but the discreetest of museums. He also painted graphicly on many subjects which we would be even less willing to accept, one famous image depicts two young boys laying on a sofa performing a mutual autoerotic act while anouther image shows an even younger boy being forceibly mollested by a much older man, presumably his teacher.

Strangely enough when he left paris in 1881 it wasn't his erotica which had caused controvasery but rather "The Victory of the Genius of Destruction" painted for the Paris Exhibition and banned by French authorities because of its daring antimilitarist message. He traveled around europe again for a while before returning to St. Petersburg and turning his hand back to illistration, this time though he chose a more pious subject working on Madách's "The Tragedy of Man" and some of János Arany's ballads. He died in St. Petersburg in 1906 the creator of a wide a emesely varried collection of art. --Jahsonic 00:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)