showing young people at sports and dancing girls, also represented in a graphic manner. The year 1986 proved to be most prolific. That year saw the completion of the "Great Hungarian Painters" and the "Martyrs of Arad" cycles, as well as portraits of great Hungarian writers and poets (Madách, Kölcsey, Berzsenyi), also in the above-discussed style.
ˇ The experiences gained in striking medals were synthesized in 1987-88. A part of the medals of gracefully moving women, African beasts, often birds, were made in silver and, as usual, struck by hand. This is where the singular form of the medals: the cracked edge surrounding the medal, comes from. The hue of silver, the subtle forms, the balanced composition and the manner of striking produced very attractive and artistically high-quality pieces (Gymnast girl, 1987; Cheetah, 1988; Scarlet ibis, 1988).
ˇ Around 1987, a new technique preoccupied the artist: creating medals from forms printed into soft clay. That was not the first time he had applied this method: the Miraculous Stag was made much earlier, in 1981, the Riverbank in 1983, but imprinted medals became more frequent in his crop in the second part of the '80s (Seaside, 1987; In memory of the poet, 1987). The first step in this technique is to imprint a texture - most often a net - upon which distinct objects - a medal, snail, vegetal parts, screw, tool, etc. are pressed.








Viktória L. Kovásznai: A career from struck medals to anti-medals