Worker (1980-as évek eleje)

Győző Somogyi worked in various jobs until 1977, such as assistant pastor in the countryside and in Pest, farm worker, cavalryman, postal loader, and unskilled worker. In 1972 he learned screen printing from an elderly printer. It was then that he started making prints. He joined the Studio of Young Artists in 1973, the Art Fund and the Artists' Association in 1974. In 1977 he won the Grand Prize of the Miskolc Biennale of Graphic Arts. In addition to graphic art, he began painting in the early 1980s. In an interview, he says that it was mainly because he was fed up with seeing the world in a gloomy light that he wanted to beautify it through painting.

The portrait, The Worker, ingeniously crosses the popular subject matter of the time with the bright, neon colours of Pop Art, giving the impression of a negative of a photograph. The contours sharply separate the individual bright areas of colour, which often contrast sharply with each other - hence the colouring-book feel of Somogyi's paintings.