Introducing George Baloghy, Artist...

George Baloghy is an established New Zealand and Australasian painter artist. His current painting style can be described as realism, although it is a particular kind of realism, hardened and sharpened to be something more dramatic. By heightening colour and contrast he creates a reality not quite like the world that we see, but a kind of hyper-realism. He deals with a number of different themes, and these threads have intertwined over the years of his painting production. There are city landscapes, rural and coastal scenes, appropriated imagery from other artists, often with humour. They are more than paintings, they are also commentaries on how we see, and often with a subtle twist. As such there is generally more to the paintings than meets the eye, depending on your knowledge of art history and sometimes local events. His work is included in the curricula of University Art History Programmes, and he has work in almost all the major public Art museums in New Zealand. George Baloghy has worked professionally as an artist since 1993.

Madame Recamier at the Pa

Based on two paintings made by two different artist living in different hemispheres, both made around the same time (circa 1820). The maori pa was painted by Augustus Earle, an itinerant artist passing through New Zealand. The female figure on the chaise longue was made by the famous french painter David. A collision of paintings as much as a collision of cultures.

1010 x 600 mm

Painting, oil on canvas

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