István Nagy B. (1933-2006) was an outstanding art teacher and painter in contemporary Hungarian art.
He was born in Szilvásvárad, attended the Calvinist Collage of Sárospak, then first the Applied Art Academy, and afterwards the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest (1951-1959).

After graduating, he consciously built his career that ended in 2006. During the years of his involvement in art, he ripened his art and developed an approach involving individual forms.

His exceptional intellect allowed him to comprehend and apply various means of painting interpreting his well structured ideas.
His painting art opened up ever recurring opportunities of learning about reality both in the social and transcendent sphere of life.

István Nagy B. often talks about a state when paintings paint themselves, when in a certain aggregate concrete forming of pictures accomplish the basic motif without any control, and when he himself takes places in the message as an instrument. The picture initiatives, as he calls them, are born in this indescribable state of mind, however, necessary for him to create.

"In a state like this man acts as a harnessed horse, with both eyes covered. In this state there is only one important thing: how the picture turns out to be right" - said the artist.

But he is not willing to discuss the secret where it all comes from, what he considers good and bad since this is neither a mapping of fashionable artistic theories, belief systems, learning, nor mysticism.

The review was created by the art historian Ágnes Bakonyvári M.