Jakab Elek paints almost exclusively with oil, thickly, modeling with grotesque pleasure his imaginary figures, sometimes even with painting-knife, to which he sticks up topics taken from his environment, inspired by the “combine-painting”-influence. He thinks exclusively in a figurative way, in the human body he seeks for the gestures, symbols, signs, schemes– and finds them in the stressed eyes, in the different parts of the body and in the hands, which have a remarkable inclination for expressivity.