Noon László Paál

The painter of Transylvanian origin studied landscape painting at the Academy of Vienna. He went on a long study trip to the Netherlands where this picture radiating the joy of the firsthand experience of nature was created. Quick and energetic improvisation, the capturing of large summary forms, the rendering of the exact tone values of the sunny landscape studded with deep shadows fascinated the artist in the first place, who was probably quite at ease in the scenery reminiscent of the flat Hungarian landscape. The small painting is the outcome of an unbiased sovereign painterly approach, one of László Paál’s most up-to-date works despite its apparent simplicity; a direct relative of Camille Pissarro’s and Alfred Sisley’s landscapes painted a few years earlier, but unknown to Hungarian artists at that time. | Anna Szinyei Merse