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Pór finished "Longing for Pure Love" in 1911. There are three nudes in the picture. A female figure in Michelangelo's style is reclining on a drape rich in folds, with her back against a broken tree trunk. In the middle, there is a man: he is kneeling and lifting a hand (he had a flower in the hand originally), and there is a male nude standing on the right. The three figures are strongly built, they have strong muscles. Their apparent restfulness hides tension. At first glance, the group can be characterized by a state of balance, only the figure in the middle is doing some movement, thus connecting the three of them. The gesture of the female figure (she is lifting her arm) is taken over by the figure in the middle which then dies out in the arms of the man. The earth and the hills in the background, the clouds in the sky and the broken trees are painted with the same emphasis and plasticity. The colours of the picture are highly interesting: a contemporary critic said that the picture was lacking in colours, or in other words, was too rich in forms to the disadvantage of colours. The painter gave up colours and individual features in order to indicate that this is not a concrete scene. Its message is a more general one. The picture is obviously a symbolic one but its content is ambiguous. The two men can be identified with him, the viewer can see two phases of a series of events. The title can be of some help: "Longing for Pure Love". One must not think of an earthly love, it is psychich affectaion and a mental longing to reach the unreachable. Pór wanted to create new man and an idealized type.
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