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Szentendre Motif II painted by Dezső Korniss in 1947-48, is one of the most important works of the avant-garde movement which emerged in Hungarian art during the early 1930s, and which was primarily related to the town of Szentendre. This picture was a programme and a conclusion all in one. Korniss and Vajda defined their artistic programme in relation to Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók: "Nothing can be done without tradition, which under Hungarian circumstances means folk art. We want to accomplish the same thing as Bartók and Kodály have done in music..."
Korniss painted several so-called Constructivist-Realist pictures, each of which was entitled Szentendre Motif. From the elements of folklore, naive art and architecture discovered in Szentendre, Korniss created an amalgamation of Surrealistic, Symbolic, Structural and Constructivist compositions which conveyed radically new meanings.
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