Béla Farkas was painter who belonged to the decorative movement of Art Nouveau. His pictures made after the First World War during the Depression convey the Art Nouveau attitude to life as regards a desire for a timeless landscape and world (Dream Image, The Two Graciae, Walkers in The Park, Walkers in The Woods, Embrace, Two People and Nature). He studied in Budapest. Farkas, who had been to Nagybánya (Baia-Mare, Romania) and Kecskemét, unlike his contemporaries, did not paint the external visible world, i.e. the ostensible, instead he wandered in the internal regions of the soul, rendering visible moods and narcotic visions and grasping the internal means of escape.

In 1919, separated from Hungary, Béla Farkas took up residence in Szabadka (Subotica, Serbia-Montenegro) with his mother. Owing to this separation, his lost contact with his master, Béla Iványi Grünwald and the Kecskemét colony of artists. In Szabadka the artists founded the post First World War Voivodina Art Association. Árpád G. Balázs, Károly Baranyi, Béla Farkas and the others organised a number of exhibitions not only in Upper-Bácska (Gorna Baèka), but in other towns of Voivodina as well. However, as they did not receive support, the association broke up soon. The artists were scattered but Béla Farkas remained in Szabadka. His mother was a music teacher, so she could cater for her prodigal and increasingly more unreliable son. The highly talented Szabadka artist committed suicide in 1941, one year after losing his beloved mother.