Molnár created a personal abstraction, thus opposing to the impersonality of the geometric pictures appearing within the European painting. Yet there is a painting tradition which has an effect on the "Crystal Pictures": Van Eyck, Vermeer, Jacques Villon; and in the Hungarian art: the art of Csontváry, Ferenc Martyn, Tamás Lossonczy. Martyn and Lossonczy sparingly made crystal pictures, but unlike in the art of Sándor Molnár, they were not made in a period characterizing mainly this type of art.