Rainbow over Lake Balaton

In the 1930s Csók discovered a new subject for painting: Lake Balaton. With its rapidly changing light and colour effects the lake exercised a powerful influence on the development of modern Hungarian painting. There were painters who devoted practically their whole life-work to the most perfect possible rendering of the lake and the surrounding landscape. The last important phase of Csók's work as an aged artist is associated with Lake Balaton. The landscapes he painted here proved suitable for the expression of great passions as well as of harmonious serenity.