Gizella Rákóczy is an important figure in geometric art in Hungarian as well as the international scene. Her paintings are often closely related to a strict numerical system.
In 1976, she began to investigate four-armed spirals and its numerical laws, inspired by an illustration she found on an old Scottish grave. Rákóczy established a system with combinatorics, taking the spirals as a base, to interpret its numbers to the language of painting. Her works reflect the mathematical correlations of her theory. After 1998, discovering the aquarelle technique, Rákóczy began to layer the material’s possibilities according to the famous Fibonacci sequence. The several layers on top of each other create homogenous and vivid, yet translucent colours.
