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Máttis Teutsch, who used to belong to a group of artists around Kassák and the journal "Ma", painted landscapes of a peculiar world. Trees on hills are swaying in the wind, figures embracing, and lines flowing are whirling in the picture. Human, natural and abstract geometrical forms harmonize with one another and go over into one another. Whirling forms turn into people, they embrace one another, or separate themselves, or become storm-beaten trees, whose roots are frimly embedded in the ground. Iván Hevesy, a critic, said, "Máttis Teutsch created abstract artistic forms out of realistic ones of nature which are no longer symbols of objects, but expressions of emotions." Movements in opposite directions make the dynamics of forms more intensive. Layers of landscape make organic forms identical. Lively movements, pulsation and rhythm are present in this visual vegetation which leads the viewer towards mental contents by stylization and amalgamation of various layers of reality. Hevesy writes that "Máttis Teutsch expresses the movement, pulsation and dynamism and waves of the soul, which are brought about in him after the impression". The structure of colours is particularly striking in his oil pictures. Ivy green, wine-red and shades or purple dominate "Landscape in Dark Colours".
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