Margit Kovács For me one of the most memorable parts of the Humanities trip to Eastern Europe was our visit to a museum devoted to the works of Margit Kovács in Szentendre.Without our native guide, Réka, we might never have visited Szentendre, and I would never have seen these works. Kovács’s ceramic statues are wonderful and moving. Among my favorites of her works are The Fates and Fishermen’s Wives. The subject of The Fates is familiar to me from other artists’ works, but Kovács portrays the three women in a folk art style. They are dressed in traditional Hungarian clothing, and each represents a different stage of a woman’s life: Clotho is the young maid, Lachesis the matron, and Atropos is the crone. There is a simplicity and innocence to these women that is very appealing and not necessarily the norm in presentations of the Fates. Fishermen’s Wives picks up on a theme of Hungarian life that we also saw in Budapest at the Fishermen’s Bastion on the Danube River. This statue is quite different from The Fates. Here innocence and quietude are replaced by worry. Life is not simple or care free for these women who await the return of their loved ones from the sea. Unlike the women in The Fates, these women huddle together sharing their concern, and at the same time each is wrapped in her cloak isolated from the others. Their worried expressions and tense poses are very moving and their fear is starkly obvious at first glance. This museum provided a wonderful taste of Hungarian art. E-MAIL