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The composition formula of the picture is rather simple: a group of people whirling under the canvass is surrounded by identical houses in the background as if they had been made of paper. An ordinary church tower melts into the bluish-purple sky of the evening. The figures are deprived of dignity and their faces. Gestures are repeated and identical - this is what makes the whole scene picquant. Adolescent girls and freshly wedded wives, embarrassed by the loudness of the festal occasion as if they were debutantes, are funnily uniform: their stiffness, their hands dropped in their laps in a parallel way and the white triangles of the scarves beside and behind one another repeats the monotony of the houses in the distance. A barker steals into the white patch: he is big-headed and has an amorphous appearance as if her were a monkey. He is grinning with his toothless mouth and apologizing at the same time: the procession is over ... This superb example of Aba Novák's portrayal is added by the slyness of the manipulators. The malicious attitude of the painter makes this hubbub artificially generated into a puppet show to which the stylized potato faces give themselves without any joy. Figures sticking to the vertical posts in angular postures. Bald-headed gangster-like young men who have become red in the face from the light of the red-brimmed roof operate the carousel and the commotion with it as if they were devils playing with puppets.
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