A viewer who is used with the famous paintings of Delacroix or Cézanne can be surprised by the violent or erotic "explosions" that sometimes appear in the works of these artists. Kupferstein Imre's Bacchanalia is also an example of an artistic outburst. Strengthening the ecstatic atmosphere of the stage, the artist places his characters in nature, in a space that will be overwhelmed by a storm.

In this work, a mythological theme frequently encountered in the history of art is addressed: a bacchanalian celebration. If traditionally, works of this type had in the center the god Bachus, surrounded by an intoxicated procession, in the work of Kupferstein, the characters lose their mythological aura. They are currently brought to a table, but the dynamics of the compositional lines retain little of the dynamics of the Bacchic processions.

Using the iconographic formula invented by Manet in The Luncheon on the Grass, which so outraged the public, at the end of the 19th century, the Hungarian artist modernized the theme of the Bacchic holiday. Both artists choose to introduce nudes with the bourgeois dressed in clothing specific to the era. If in the case of Manet, there is a certain ambiguity in the scene, in the case of Kupferstein, the scene explicitly turns into an orgy, the provocative nature of the work is even more accentuated since the bourgeois watching are not exclusively men but also women.