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In this painting Bortnyik does not portray workers in the traditional sense but as a carrier of symbolic contents. The picture is in fact an improved version of "Red Sun" (1919). While the sun represented ideas directly in the earlier picture, in the present one Berény wanted to portray man, as a symbolic realizer of ideas. As for form, he builds his picture on the lessons and structures of his picture painted in 1920. By maintaining structure, he attempted to produce something new in content when he painted a worker of neutral colour in greyish planes with a montage-like city of bluish green in the background. The kneeling and stepping figure becomes similar to the order of building in the background in form, too. By investigating the steadiness of geometrical forms, Bortnyik wants to eliminate everything which might be incidental and unique, he wants to produce order which artists who were forced to emigrate after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic had been longing for, order, which he had thought to create in the harmony of plain constructions a short time before.
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