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The style of Mednyánszky's early drawings made for the album called. "The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Writing and Pictures" has a dry, rather academic quality. Later, possibly through the technique of water colour and the rapid rendering of new visual experiences during his travels, he discovered a different sort of handling. Forms became looser and the works more colourful. Most of his figures were drawn from the lives of poor people - tramps and down-and-outs in Hungary and Europe. The character and life of his sitters concerned him as much as the world around them. Mednyánszky's art is expecially attractive for its frank and deeply human understanding. His water colours, with layers of light-filled warmth show great technikal mastery and have a place among the best Hungarian water colours of this century.
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