# Shelling Beans [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FÉNYES, Adolf]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 86 x 79 cm ## Commentary "Shelling Beans" is one of the most beautiful of Fényes's sunny pictures. It is a good example of the painter's Impressionism. He enhanced the subject matter, an everyday one of three figures husking beans in a village yard, to an ecstatic spectacle. In the delicately tinted picture, reflexes of colours, greyish, bluish and pinky shades are clearly visible which divide the canvass into patches of colours. Due to the sunshine which can substract colours and make even shadows colourful, the picture is rich in colours: shades of red, ultramarine and blues are mixed with grey. His composition is not based only on forms arranged in space, but on the ability of the sun to change colours. Independently of painters of the Nagybánya school, Fényes was engaged in similar problems as e.g. Ferenczy in the colours of "October" or "Sunny Morning". <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 3 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/brahms\_hungarian\_dance\_5.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 5</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Brother and Sister]() - [Forenoon in a Provincial Town]() - [Peasant Girl Bringing Basket]() - [Poppy-seed Cake]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()