The subject of October, not coincidentally, is a painting.

On October 6, the painter Árpád Márton turns 85. This is the way the Szekler Museum of Ciuc celebrates artist whose exhibitions have been seen by the general public countless times in the museum's exhibition spaces, and a large number of his works are found in the museum's fine art collection. In recent decades, Árpád Márton has donated almost 200 works to the museum. Thanks to his generous donations, his works form a prominent and defining part of the collection.

The painting "Sons of the Soil", from 1968, presents one of the main motifs and essential characteristics of Árpád Márton's art. There are several versions of the composition, but the piece in the museum's collection is the first version, a work of art made using the egg tempera technique, which replaces oil paint. Peasants with robust and characteristic forms fill the pictorial space that in a certain sense can be defined as a landscape. In essence, man and landscape are inseparable here. His huge figures spread out in the frame in such a way that they themselves become a landscape, their colors and shapes show the characteristics of the familiar autumn landscape. His figures capture our attention, and the landscape would lose its meaning without them. A monumental work whose secret lies in: “the synthesis and metaphorization of grandeur and personality, structure and organicity, heroic and ordinary, practical and ecstatic, assuming each other, dissolving and evolving from each other.” (Zoltán Banner)