03 — ARTWORK
Clothes Drying
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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Like many of his other works, Szinyei painted this picture in Munich, but it has none of the spirit of the Academy there. It is a brilliant picture sketch inspired by a Hungarian scene. It shows the maids hanging out the washing in the garden in the summer sunlight, with the "young master" looking on. (The picture was also exhibited under the title "Young Master"). As in his picture sketch "The Swing", Szinyei was primarily concerned with translating light into colour. He disregarded the academic rules and painted his visual experience in carefree composition. He grasped the essence of ImpressionismA style of painting that became prominent in the last quarter of the 19th century as a reaction to the ossified doctrine of the Academy and the content-oriented atelier, historical, and genre painting. The name is derived from the 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, and first was used by art critics as a mocking description for a group of artists excluded from the official Salon, but who had their own first group exhibition in 1874 at the salon of the Parisian photographer Nadar. Impressionism, as a new type of naturalism, negated classical pictorial methods; based on contemporary theories of physics, it indicated the natural object in a revolutionary fashion - entirely as a manifestation of colour. Their supreme principle was "plein-air" or open-air painting, through which the painters tried to capture a direct, spontaneous impression of what they saw., although he had no knowledge of the similar endeavours by French artists, had never been to Paris, and had only seen the realist paintings of Gustave Courbet and some very early works by Edouard Manet at the International Exhibition at Munich (Claude Monet painted his firs Impressionist painting in Grenoble in the same year.)
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Clothes Drying by SZINYEI MERSE, Pál},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/szinyei-merse-pl-r46823a7821c41a/clothes-drying-r17528accbab8a6},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
