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From the very beginning of his career, the art of József Nemes Lampérth was influenced by French art, thanks to the mediation of The Eight. "Interieur", an aquarelle painted in 1912, shows that he was most indebted to Cézanne, although at that time he had not yet been to Paris. However, his more expressive and raw colours give an individual character to his works. By the use of dramatic colour contrasts, the artist turned a bourgeois interior into an autonomous composition. The bottle and the woman with her head leaning on the table suggest tragedy; yet, these motifs placidly fit into the homogeneous composition. With this painting, Nemes Lampérth also expressed the feelings of the intelligentsia in reaction to the existential problems of Austria-Hungary shortly before the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The vigorous brushstrokes and the expressive and novel colour scheme and formal vernacular all serve to convey the same feeling.
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