Attila Richard Lukacs Overview

Lukacs was born in 1962 was educated in Canada, and spent many years painting abroad before returning to his mother country. He is most known for his work involving skinheads, military personal, cadets and the explicit and violent images associated with the concepts of male domination, sexual power and punishment .Often his work questions the stereotype of males sexuality in roles that would be assumed heterosexual as they involve a battle of physical strength and a wrestling for alpha position which sometimes lead to submission through the use of sexual degradation or that of sexual domination(e.g. Hazing Traditions). Recent events involving soldiers and detainees make his work even more prevalent as he has been working with these subjects for almost twenty years. He is a highly skilled painter and his works are classically rendered and beautiful to the eye because of the juxtaposition between subject matter and painting style.