Attila Meszlenyi Explained

Attila Meszlényi
Birth Date:2 May 1954
Birth Place:Budapest, Hungary

Meszlényi Attila (born 2 May 1954 in Budapest) is an ecological writer, painter, animated film director, musician,[1] and composer. His work as a painter and thinker is dominated by the theme of nature and our ambiguous relationship with it.

Attila Meszlényi has lived in seclusion since 2006. He prefers not to exhibit his work, publishing only on the Internet.[2] His more recent works in relation to the ecology topic are available in parts online. __TOC__

Career

Meszlényi graduated in applied graphic arts from Képző- és Iparművészeti Szakközépiskola (Fine and Applied Arts School) in 1972. Against his parents’ and teachers’ wishes, he did not continue his education as he did not want to move away from everyday life. He also believed that self-education was worth more than institutional education. He spent the following years with various, mostly physical occupations, including time as a baker, a stone sculptor, a decorator, and a plumber. He continued his art activities in his free time and began to turn towards films.

Attila Meszlényi took part in a study called ‘A magyar film formanyelve és közleménye’ about film semiotics in cooperation with László Beke, Özséb Horányi, András Lányi and Róbert Vadas led by Péter Józsa. Spotted by Foky Ottó, he started directing animated films in Pannónia Filmstúdió from 1977 to ’79. He mostly worked on parts of the popular cartoon series ‘Frakk, a macskák réme’,.[3] [4]

After the series ended, he began working as a freelance graphic designer. He made covers and illustrations for over two hundred books, drew many slide films, and occasionally took commercial graphic design work orders as well. Since 1980, he is member of Művészeti Alap (Artist Fund) and its successor organisation Magyar Alkotóművészek Országos Egyesülete (National Association of Hungarian Artists).

In 1983, he founded an early music ensemble, Musica Profana, in which he played the Baroque flute and musette until 1993.

Due to the instigation of Muray Róbert and Dr. Zoltán Attila, from 1987, he started painting wild birds and mammals of Europe and occasionally other continents, mixing naturalist depiction with various stylistic elements.

In 1990, he founded (and has been leading ever since) the TARON TÁRSASÁG (called Gondolkodókör after 2001). Between 1998 and 2006, he was a regular participant of national exhibitions, fine art biennales. He continues to paint animals and plants, alive and dead, using watercolour or oil. Since 1999, he has been member of the Magyar Vízfestők Társasága (Association of the Hungarian Watercolour Painters).[5] He co-founded the Unikornis fine art group with Péchy Tamás in 2001. Its members: Csíkszentmihályi Róbert sculptor, Nagy Judit gobelin artist, Nemes István painter and graphic artist, Szemadám György fine artist, Péchy Tamás environmentalist and Sárosdy Judit art historian. In recent years, he has mainly been painting and publishing his writings on ecology and art.

Solo exhibitions

Selected collective exhibitions

Public collections

Public art

Awards

Animated films

Books

Selected publications

Published (musical) compositions

Recordings

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Attila Meszlényi plays on musette. . 1988 .
  2. Web site: Paintings of Attila Meszlényi.
  3. Web site: Frakk, a macskák réme. 2018-07-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20170330084703/http://widgets.imdb.com/title/tt0167595/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm. 2017-03-30. dead.
  4. Web site: Frakk (TV Series).
  5. Web site: Association of the Hungarian Watercolour Painters. .
  6. Web site: Exhibition of Attila Meszlényi. 2017-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20160827145050/http://omvk-zala.hu/hirek97.htm. 2016-08-27. dead.
  7. Web site: Attila Meszlényi: Plaque of Róbert Muray.
  8. Web site: Frakk, a macskák réme. .
  9. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Ez a kapa, ez a kasza – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 1984 . Móra . 9789631132670 .
  10. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Csigakalauz – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 1994 . Macondo . 9789638530806 .
  11. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Emberi tanítás – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 1995 . Mészáros G. . 9789636500863 .
  12. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Nyúlkalauz – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 1997 . Animus . 9789638386410 .
  13. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Sünkalauz – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 1997 . Animus . 9789638386397 .
  14. Book: Meszlényi Attila: A világvége illemtana – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 2008 . Ad Librum . 9789638776952 .
  15. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Olajfestés – vadon élő állatok – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 2012 . Cser K. . 9789632782317 .
  16. Book: Meszlényi Attila: Művészeti állatismeret – Rekord in the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library (Hungary). 2016 . Cser K. . 9789632784625 .
  17. Web site: Meszlényi Attila: Könnyű darabok gitárra 17. és 18. századi művekből.
  18. Web site: The Nature in the art. Thoughts of a painter about nature, painting. Interwiev.
  19. Web site: János Szarka: A Meszlényi-féle aszú... a királyok bora!.