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Koszta painted this picture at the peak of his powers in his best artistic period. His art had been integrated with his surroundings, the world of scattered farm in Szentes, by that time. "... To the question why I live exactly in Szentes, I can only answer that this is the landscape which shows the most universal characteristics of Hungarian landscapes best of all ...".
Interpretation of nature based on colours and a daring directness characterized "Drying Clothes", too. The air is thicker, opulent red, yellow, blue and brown patches are gleaming, their shadows are heavy. It is a sweltering hot day - he elevated this everyday topic where there is no action, to a drama with colours and contrasts. His style originating from rough complementary colours was ridiculed as "sunshine by night". Critics who praised him compaired him with French painters of Les Fauves because of his gleaming colours, linking him to Vlaminck's gleaning shadows.
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