Biography

Péter Földi studied at the Eger Teacher Training College specialized on mathematics and drawing, where his teachers were Ödön Somoskői, János Blaskó, János Seres and Ernő Nagy. He finished his studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. From 1995 until his retirement he taught in the Esterhazy Karoly College. His is a regular participant in national exhibitions.

His specific mythology which guides his brush, comes from the folk tales and the folk traditions’ world, but inspired by the sincerity and purity of children's drawings as well. The main source of him inspiration the hometown Somoskőújfalu, he re-interpreted the folk traditions. He following the unstudied, cosmic vision of the children's drawings and "neo-primitive painting” as well. At the beginning of his career, the effect of Jackson Pollock and Hans Hartung were felt, he created expressive and lyrical abstract works. From the seventies the flora form naturalistic representation coupled with geometric character, he inquired into the laws of the repeat and eclipse, than he deals with the existence of biologically superior animal - birds, quadrupeds – visualization. For the second half of the decade he found his individual color-form-image world. On his concisely composed works opposite with the anti-colourist conceptual fashion, the strong, clean, uniform color surfaces often appeared, following the children's drawings, the folk art untutored world view and the purity of the "neo-primitive" painting. The absence of the visual perspective is reminiscent of Egyptian art.