#1392 1970s Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Fodor Levente

Surrealist painting by Hungarian artist Fodor Levente, signed and dated, 1974. Hungarian artists began to explore surrealism after 1945. Under drab conformist communism with its championing of tedious socialist realism, surrealism offered a way for countries like Hungary to celebrate the inner worlds of the imagination and feel like they were maintaining a connection to the West. Levente Fodor is considered to be one of the most important figures in Transylvanian art of the mid-20th Century.