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János Thorma painted a lot of portraits in the 20's. These paintings are the social illustrations, human documents of the small town. Later on, his fantasy was influenced by the surrounding nature. This period is represented by idyllic plein-air compositions.
He often painted the village Giródtótfalu and its surroundings, the valley of Fernezely. Apart from a few other idyllic small compositions, the Picking Violet was inspired by this landscape. The atmosphere of this painting is definitely poetic. The gesture of the two kneeling, flower-picking girls is gentle and slightly stylized. They seem to participate at a religious ceremony, a spring celebration of the awakening Nagybánya landscape before the snowy, steel blue, huge mountains, the Gutin and the Feketehegy (Black Mountain).
Dull, discrete colours and tones that dissolve into each other characterize the symmetric, gloomy, grayish- silverish, sombre composition.
When he was young, his temperament required wide, passionate rendering, dramatic feelings, stormy lines and deep colours. The new view of life is conveyed with dull, discrete, forceless, gentle tones. Besides these, motifs that are related to his childhood are a refugee for him.
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