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Farkas painted this tragic picture, a confession on a secluded man and his hopeless protest, during his last stay abroad. A red-bearded lonely man lift his hand as if to warning people. Black sea water invading land, a smoking vulcano and a deserted house can be seen in the background. He symbolizes protests against the assassination of Archimedes, the old scientist of Syracuse, and dangers threatening 20th c. man This is emphasized by the fact that the figure is in the middle, that he is oversize and that lighter colours contrasting those of nature on the coast recur in front of the white road. Colours and forms are reduced to enhance the expressiveness of the vision and deliberate composition makes the message of the picture more definite. This work of Farkas expresses the loneliness of modern man.
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