As a language of communication, art has to conform to the norms of communication in order to convey most efficiently the message it seeks to deliver. It is for this reason that a recurring critique against art is that the artist has not mastered the skill of proper communication. Much incomprehension in modern art stems from the accusation that the artist cannot paint or draw, implying that he cannot use the language of art properly, hence he is a swindler, trying to deceive

“I am who I am, where I came from, where I took my inspiration from, that is, my homeland, plus Europe. This is what painting means to me, this is my painting.” Dezső Korniss “What we want is …what Bartók and Kodály have already done in music.” Lajos Vajda These two lines describe the ars poetica of Dezső Korniss, also explicit in the title of the exhibition, From the clearest spring, which is identical with the title of a Bartók musical piece. Born in 1908 in Beszterce, Tran