Introducing George Baloghy, Artist...
George Baloghy is an established New Zealand and Australasian painter artist. His current art 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 hyper-realism, more detailed and more intense. 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, and occasionally unusual narratives that are close to Pop Art and Surrealism. These are often more than painted depictions of reality. They are also commentaries on how we see, often with a subtle twist, as well as alternative realities. 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 city landscapes are effectively history paintings of a moment in time. 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.
