On the street (1930)

Decorativity is one of the most important pictorial methods in Judit Beck's works from the turn of the twenties and thirties. 'In the motif placement {...} reassessed, one can discover Rippl-Ronai, the Gödöllő Artists' Group, but most of all a Japanese painting influence filtering through to Europe at the turn of the century', writes Margit Kiss Joakim. In the watercolour Utcarészlet (Street Detail), Beck's composition is bold: he places the two trees in the middle, so that the background is almost completely obscured. While the brilliance of the bright yellow and orange foliage is further enhanced by the complementary purple on the walls of the house.