As a year ago, when a member of parliament demanded the immediate closure of his exhibition, and his social networking site was blocked and he was banned from other places, drMáriás decided to go straight and, like other artists, he no longer paints pictures that are capable of causing unrest, anger, indignation and scandal, but rather pictures that calm us, make us think, fill us with valuable thoughts and have a beneficial effect on our sense of beauty.
But what should the emigrated painter paint? drMáriás has created portraits and stories of artists who have themselves been forced into internal or external emigration, or even imprisoned for their creative work.
Some were put in front of a firing squad, yet survived, were thrown into prison, where they wrote the most important work of their lives, were philosophical about being driven to a warehouse position, were revolutionaries, but too revolutionary for other revolutionaries, he was a bourgeois who refused to live under socialism, a doctor who used morphine to escape reality, or a sophisticated dreamer who was beaten to death because of his origins.
This is how the Marquis de Sade, Oscar Wilde, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Sándor Márai, Antal Szerb, Béla Hamvas, Lajos Kassák and others appear in the studios of Csontváry, Rippl-Rónai, Berény, Baselitz, Basquiat, Adami and others.
No politics, we would say, only to find that it is everywhere and in everything.