Village detail (1961)

Hódmezővásárhely is one of the important workshops of modern Hungarian realist painting. The Alföld and the countryside were an inexhaustible source of experiences for painters living in the city and working in the artist colony. Kurucz often depicted the everyday life of the peasants of his birthplace. His figures are usually static, they radiate the balance and tranquility of the meaningful, clear and useful life of the peasants who live together with nature. He was not interested in the colorful whirlwind and busy crowd of the market, the fair, but the inner world, human destiny and way of life. Their life, their state of mind, was composed and formed from natural endowments and centuries of experience.