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Károly Ferenczy played a highly important role in modern painting. Among others, it is due to his determination and disciplined method of work that the Nagybánya art school founded in 1896 and changed the development of Hungarian painting. "Ruthenian Peasant Boy' came from the early Nagybánya period. He united alfresco painting and decorative picture architecture. He broke with the traditional division of foreground-middle-background and divided the picture into vertical planes behind one another. Light is glimmering through trees and appears on light, pink-white patches of the man in the foreground. The artist paid great attention to the shades and richness of the light. The shirt of the boy has a blue-green tinge to it, he is facing the tree-trunks in the background, and holding a violin: his face has the same brownish shade as the trees. Man and nature are depicted in the same spirit. The decorative portrayal of trees and leaves is suggestive of art nouveau. The second plane behind the figure makes one feel the space in the distance.
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