Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)

Vécsi Nagy Zoltán: Avantgárd törekvések és a népművészet hatása Lesznai Anna (1885–1966) korai képzőművészeti munkásságban

that the icons of Russian folk art and embroidery traditions helped to move the Russian avant garde from a representative view of the world to abstraction and the spiritual. Also Lesznai's rejection of urban civilisation and the nostalgia she felt towards nature (flora and fauna), the rural community, the home and traditional human bonds were by no means unusual or necessarily contradictory to what was going on within contemporary avant garde movements elsewhere in Europe. The stylised forms that can be found in her illustrations, the decorative lineation in her work which was akin to the Secession movement, and the expressive, occasionally surrealist tendencies, in her childlike, deliberately naive approach, can undoubtedly be described as contemporary. 784