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2061 Painting

Igor Eugen Prokop

Hungary

Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 12.6 W x 9.8 H x 0.4 D in

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Book of Prophecies by my Uncle, Illits Gyula, for the coming 120 years I am going to tell you about the short history of this special book. My Uncle, Illits Gyula, and his wife, Auntie, Szakáts Katica were my father’s “foster” parents. My father was born in Temesvár (Timisoara, now Romania). At the age of 18 he was studying law but wanted to become a doctor. That’s why he escaped to Hungary and enrolled, at the medical faculty, at the University of Szeged. My father told us a lot of stories about the hard, determined life of “our Uncle Gyula” who aimed to educate my Father to be a human even if it meant living on bread and water. This way, my father often worked in Hotel Belvedere, in Budapest, at Budagyöngye. There the owners were Uncle Gyula and Auntie Katica just like in other hotels in Budapest and Vienna. They were rich but they respected hard work tremendously. Uncle Gyula travelled all over the word, read a lot, and had a huge library. He was keen on prophecies, he himself made prophecies and told my father tales about these. During World War II the hotel perished in the siege of Budapest and my father could only save some books from the priceless library. The torn, soaked, sometimes burnt books meant “journeys” for me in my childhood. I decided to save some pages from the legacy of Uncle Gyula. I am painting visual “prophecies” on the partially intact pages for the coming 120 years. The pictures are inspired by and based on a lot of memories, sounds, tales and my own journeys. The pictures are waiting for deciphering. Each picture is the summary of a year or is the “description” of a good or bad event by means of pictorial language, or that of the colour and shape. The book was published in Leipzig, Germany around 1880. It was written in wonderful Gothic letters and was illustrated with a lot of etchings. Its title is “Northland Fahren”. Nothing could be done with the book or the pages, they would have perished forever. I am trying to preserve my Uncle Gyula’s stories, prophecies, clairvoyance and his worries about the fate of the world. And I am trying to show these to the “public” hoping that a person or some people will be able to decipher the visual mysteries for the benefit of Nature and the World.

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Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12.6 W x 9.8 H x 0.4 D in

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Everything I do can be called a lifelong process of evolvement like everything at nature once evolved within a "natural order". My studies as well as my time as a teacher, but first of all my travels, have formed me. Like everyone I was created by the daily influences: my children, my friends, and all the surrounding social and personal problems. From this daily life originates my creative sense for responsibility: I feel responsible for our planet's imperfect looking future! I sensed our Planet first of all visual, and connected my impressions with my strong interest for biology and my everlasting wish to travel. The urge to discover and the urge to create met at my soul. I traveled through many countries but how many did I not visit? I learned about the elemental, wild power of our oceans, the cradle of life itself. Then I became aware of the destruction by man. I saw the dead corals, the final extinction of uncounted creatures. At the small islands of the Pacific Ocean I became witness to the destruction of everything that should have been holy to us. These wonderful old and life giving reefs that we destroyed inspired me to formulate my feelings in order to oppose the destruction. I traveled further: New Zealand, Australia, and America with its unique New York. I traveled through the old Europe that is connected with my soul and through the hot Africa with its hard but nevertheless human way of life. Indonesia with her unlimited sources of artists and wonders of nature helped me to understand our world, as did the drop of river water under my microscope - or the body of the ant, the blade of grass?all these systems and impressions go through the filter of my brain and everything flows further into my heart and my hands: the forms, the colors, and the connections. Is the blade of grass with its efficiency not superior to any machine? And what kind of wonder is the human being? 23000 breaths does he take each day, and he needs so many liters of pure water - pure water from his small habitat within our universe. You should think that this habitat would be perfect for him. We are all tiny parts within the great, unbelievable and after all not understandable system. Every detail within this system is important, both in the physic as well as in the psychic world. Errors of the system (like my diseases) let me reflect about the connections within the system. Everything is connected - nothing is meaningless.

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