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EVELYN ALEXANDRA DOMJÁN, a one-time student of József Domján’s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, his wife, mother of their three children and a life-long collaborator in the woodcut work, first won recognition for her art work in nationwide competitions at age six. “As soon as I could walk I was taken to the museums,” she remembers. Although she was educated in Latin school and at home in music, literature, foreign languages and the arts, according to the traditions of the European intellectual middle class, her preference for the arts was immediate. She learned early the satisfaction derived from creating art and developed the taste and pleasure of looking at art created by others to the point of ecstasy. It is a fact that she fell in love with Domján’s early color compositions years before she met the man. Sharing the dramatic life of the artist with its lights and shadows — to be rich or poor — made no difference to her, since her basic and urgent need to be surrounded by beauty was always satisfied. Medieval and Oriental arts have taught her to be proud of being a nameless member of the universal brotherhood of artists-artisans that reaches through the centuries.

She plans to continue her research work in museums, her work in the woodcuts, her garden and her writing.

She shares Domján’s motto: “Art is my life.”

Provided by the Hungarian Folk Museum, Passaic, NJ — Kálmán Magyar, Sr.

About the Magyar Folklór resource

A “Magyar Folklór” abból a célból jött létre, hogy tevékeny módon támogassa a magyar folklórt gondolatcsere, tapasztalatcsere és ötletcsere révén.

“FOLKLÓR” is to actively perpetuate Hungarian folklore by exchanging thoughts, experiences, and ideas. The Hungarian FOLKLÓR list is a mixed-language (English & Magyar) online resource.

Hungarian FOLKLÓR objectives:

• Increase exposure of the Hungarian Traditional Culture (HTC);
• Offer “on-line” planning, organizing & disseminating of HTC events;
• Strengthen & facilitate a world-wide internet HTC community;
• Invite constructive discussions on HTC-related topics;
• Promote & advance HTC world-wide.

FOLKLÓR célkitüzések:

• A Magyar Népi Hagyományok (MNH) ismertetése, leírása;
• A MNH-hoz kötött események tervezése, megszervezése és közzététele megsegítése az interneten;
• A MNH iránt érdeklődők internet közösségének erősítése és fejlesztése;
• A MNH-hoz kötött témák konstruktív diszkutálása;
• A MNH promótálása világszerte.

From the 1983–1984 exhibition and book at the Hungarian Folk Museum / American-Hungarian Folklore Centrum. Copyright © 1998–2000 FOLKLÓR CENTRUM · AHFC.