# Market of Kecskemét in Winter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [IVÁNYI GRÜNWALD, Béla]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on laminated paper, 50 x 73 cm ## Commentary Iványi spent the years 1914-15 in Kecskemét.This period can be characterized by attempts to stylize and decorate. "The Market of Kecskemét in Winter" was painted during this period. In the background there are a Franciscan church and a baroque Calvary church inspired artists. Iványi applied this motif in several pictures at the same time \(e.g. "The Market-Square in Kecskemét", "The Market in Kecskemét", a sketch, and "Market-Women among Snow-Hills", etc.\). A more and more abstarct and stylized presentation can be followed in his sketches. Iványi's picture is between naturalism and presentation in plane: perspectives and shadows suggestive of space are still present. The symmetric composition indicates an abstract way of looking at the world: the location of trees without leaves and patches of red in the greyish background on both sides of the picture. The composition is based on rough and wide brush-strokes. Buildings, black contours of figures and their surroundings highlighted with light are suggestive of art nouveau. ## Related artworks - [Drying Clothes]() - [In the Valley]() - [Outing in Spring]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [The Warlord's Sword]() - [View of Nagybánya with Gutin]() - [Watering]() - [Woman by the Water]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()