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“I do not get inspired.
What I do is paint everyday.
I first put the blank canvas in front of
me. I stare at it.
I see that it intends to stay blank....
I take a deep breath and urge myself to
put a little color on it.
I make a few stokes, then something
comes."
Stephan Lökos
 A shining trajectory in the art field without interruptions throughout a life: painter, violinist, philosopher and teacher. In his early youth he developed the watercolour technique ―under the impressionist influence, reminiscence of Cézanne and Degas― and the portrait during the later years to the Second War building, with the high quality of his work, a solid artistic reputation in Europe and the Middle East.
In 1952, as a result of his determined actuation in favour of the President Camille Chamoun campaign to expand the cultural limits of the Lebanon, Lökos received an invitation from the state chief to live in Beirut. Years later, once immigrated to the United States and inspired by the three-dimensional beauty of the Rocky Mountains and those of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Lökos sets out, in acceptance of a new challenge, the expression of the open space by means of the use of the abstraction language.
Thus, his style reports logical evolution from the naturalism and impressionism towards the abstract and, in the heat of the technical dominion, the obtained reversion to the semi-abstract. Perhaps it was his musical culture and his natural sense of the rhythm which motivated his interest by the tonal harmony, perceivable in excellent works of art in where the pure colours coexist with mixed with all naturalness and fortune in compositions of virtuous balance.
Stefan Lökos, native of Hungary and resident during the last years of his life in Mexico, studied Painting in the Art - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Budapest (1933-37), Philosophy in Pazmany University  (1937-39) and Music in the City Music Academy, Budapest and Conservatory of Vienna (1939-40). The extensive file of exhibitions of his work registers: Warsaw (1936), Budapest (1937), Vienna (1947), Rome (1948), Beirut (1951), Collector's Gallery (1954), Long Island University (1956), Katonah Gallery, NY (1957), Indiana University (1958), Silvermine Guild, CT. (1959, 1985), Kornbluth Gallery, NY (1955-1994), Farliegh Dickerson University, NY (1960), Woodstock Art Association, NY (1961), Ajijic, Mexico, (1971), Gallery UNO, Puerto Vallarta, (1975-76, 1978, 80.82, 1984-85, 1995), Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY (1995), Retrospective, Galeria UNO, 2003 and 2006. An excellent collection of his work is in permanent exhibition at Galería UNO, where also the book of memories "Still Life with Violin", written by Inge Lokos and Martie Lacasse is available.
Ruben Cham – Galería Ocho y más
E-mail: ruben.cham@yahoo.com.mx
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