István Csík was born in 1930, graduated from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1954. His masters were János Kmetty, Gyula Pap and Gyula Hincz. The work of István Csík evokes traditional abstract painting – developed at the beginning of the twentieth century. The interaction of carefully painted shapes creates the structure of the images, the viewer can feel the order on the canvas before he understands the space. Csík often relies on landscapes and natural elements, which he then abstracts with the tools of non-figurative painting. The unity of nature is broken by the forms painted on it, which thus become the imprint of human intervention. However, István Csík’s paintings do not shed light on the incompatibility of the two, but create a new unity between the natural and the artificial.