Heves megyei aprónyomtatványok 8/I

illustration to the same book are adjusted to this iconography.

And just one more circumstance referring to the influence of Soviet film: on the picture by Trauner mentioned above, Vertov's "Man with the camera" is a montage element, (see picture No 3), and obviously the 1929 photomontage by György Kepes: "To the memory of Rosa Luxemburg" was influenced by Soviet film.

Epilogue

It was Kepes who formulated in words the discontent of the Munka-youth with the possibilities offered by painting. But what they considered to be an adequate means for expressing social tensions, namely film, was impossible for them to make. Several of them try to realize their ideas abroad. Trauner even joins the film profession. Kepes is only experimenting with it and finally arrives at an other branch of mass art making use of scientific-technical means. Vajda in Paris makes photomontages showing the influence of Russian film and collage (e. g. Rodtchenko), Kassák and Lajos Lengyel continue to work here at home in

the 30ies along the same lines when they still can get the opportunity to express themselves.

Éva Körner