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Paizs Goebel was a founder of the Szentendre art school, to which his mature artistic period is connected although he worked in Paris and Barbizon in 1925-35. In his works painted in the early 1930s, there is a world of strange vegetation, myth and magic: the world of dreams represented an asylum for the painter who lived in a Europe drifting towards war. The peculiar and decorative quality of his colours is a result of his studies of glass painting. As if he were a naive painter, he depicts the vase - the axis of the picture - on a table covered by a table-cloth. There is an exotic bunch of flowers in the vase, their petals look like tongues of flame. The orange-red of the petals is enhanced by the blue of the background. The rich colours of the upper half of the picture are counterbalanced by peaceful planes in the upper one. The tree trunk behind the vase and the branches repeat the contour of the bunch in a decorative playfulness. The peculiar colours, the composition of the picture, and the dazed dance of butterlies around yawning petals create an atmosphere of myths and magic, which are suggestive of human passions and feelings.
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