03 — ARTWORK
Stud in a Thunderstorm
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 127 x 192 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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On returning home from Vienna where he had studied, the young Károly Lotz looked at the Hungarian landscape and people with a fresh eye. Indeed, his excellent observations were way ahead of his age. Although his paintings depicting the landscape of the Great Hungarian Plains during storm were still rooted in RomanticismA term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect. In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism., their emotional charge, variegated compositional methods and, most of all, their realistic colours justified Lotz's personal ambitions. "Stud in a Thunderstorm", painted in 1862, is an excellent example of these qualities. His depiction of the clouds whirling in the depth of the space, his felicitous rendering of the horses and his ability to capture the feeling and unique world of the people of the flatlands could not be matched by any of his contemporaries.
Lotz was also a renowned frescoWall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a day, and these areas, drying to a slightly different tint, can in time be seen. Small amounts of retouching and detail work could be carried out on the dry plaster, a technique known as a secco fresco. painter; he was the first demonstrate in this lesser known genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. in Hungary how an architect and a painter could work together in order to achieve a homogeneous work of art.
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title = {Stud in a Thunderstorm by LOTZ, Károly},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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