Homesickness

Hungarian artist Endre Bálint worked in a variety of media throughout his career, such as painting and printmaking, as well as—in his more experimental work—collage, photomontage, and poetry. Born in Budapest, Bálint attended the College of Applied Arts there before studying privately with two Hungarian artists, János Vaszary and Vilmos Aba Novák. Early on, Bálint took an interest in the aesthetics of surrealism, constructivism, and Hungarian folk art, all of which influenced his semiabstract, symbolic paintings. In 1947, he exhibited his work at both the International Surrealist Exhibition and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, a show of international abstract art. After the 1956 Hungarian uprising, the artist spent several years living in Paris, where he produced more than a thousand illustrations for the Jerusalem Bible.