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József Koszta found subject matters in the loneliness of peasants who live in the scattered pattern of farms on the Great Plain, which filled his art with emotions and tensions. He left Munich for Nagybánya, like many of his contemporaries, yet he considered Munkácsy and László Pál examples to be followed. His colours became brighter as a result of Nagybánya, but in fact he found them when he shared the lives of peasants in a farm on the Great Plain. He presented episodes, figures and landscapes without pathos in beautiful, noisy and harsh colours. The dramatic heat of self-distructive creation hides behind his materialistic art.
"Girl with Red Kerchief" is one of his figures full of life. In addition to an unprejudiced portrayal, the picture is a brilliant example of character portrayal. Reflexes of bright colours radiate the natural freshness of plein-air, but they create a heavier and more condense mass and express reality in a more concrete and less indirect way.
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