For Paul Hartal the heart of poetry is the poetry of the heart. Serving more than one Muse, he writes both fiction and non-fiction and paints in oil and acrylic. He exhibited his work at the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Musee du Chateau Ramezay in Montreal, as well as many other places. Also, an Olympic artist, he represented Canada at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He likes to explore other cultures and traveled through Europe, North-America, Argentina, Australia, China, Japan and Korea. His research concerns the connectivity of art, mathematics and science. He has been involved in interdisciplinary symmetry studies and in 1994 NASA invited him to participate in visionary space exploration projects. In 1975 he published in Montreal A Manifesto on Lyrical Conceptualism, a new element on the periodic table of art, blending the logic of passion with the passion of logic .In the 1980s he formed in Montreal the Centre for Art, Science and Technology, which Clifford Pickover describes as a network that “facilitates the exchange of ideas between various domains of human knowledge” (Mazes for the Mind, ISBN 0-321208165-0, p.277). Hartal was born 171 km south-east of Budapest, in the picturesque city of Szeged (winner of the 2006 Europe Prize award). A Canadian citizen, he attended Concordia University in Montreal and wrote a thesis on Aesthetics and History. He also holds degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a student at the University of Medicine in Szeged, he participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. A few months later he burnt all his poems and papers and escaped to freedom.
PUBLICATIONS:
Postmodern Light: A Collection of Poetry. Montreal: Orange Monad Editions, 2006
Love Poems. Montreal: Galerie Fokus, 2004
The Kidnapping of the Painter Miro (novel). Montreal: Elore Publications, 2001
The Hidden Orchard: Love and Cosmos. Montreal: Galerie Alef, 1999
Rain Drop. New York: Ward-Nasse Gallery, 1994
The Brush and the Compass: The Interface Dynamics of Art and Science. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988
Painted Melodies. Montreal: Galerie Yahouda J. Meir, 1983
A History of Architecture. Jerusalem: R. Mass, 1972
AWARDS:
Poetry Canada., 2005
Hanseo University of Seoul: Painting and Poetry, 2004
International Writers and Artists: University of Toledo, 2000
American Poetry Competition Bronze Medal, 1996
NASA Spaceweek International (Houston, TX), 1994
Olympic Artist, Seoul Olympic Games, 1988
Prix de Paris, Academie Raymond Duncan, First Prize, 1978
