Bohumír Matal
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
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| Description | The study focuses on the work of Bohumír Matal, one of the most important figures of Brno post-war painting. After a brief surrealist period, which framed Matal's stay in a labour camp during World War II, the young painter became a member of Group 42. He was close to the group subjects of man in the environment of modern civilization with its special poetics; among his top works are the painting cycles Man in the City, City in Man, Umbrellas and Lovers at the Fence. In the 1950s he was forced to retire to the seclusion of his studio, and only in 1957 was he able to exhibit again. In the early 1960s he went through a brief period of structural abstraction, after which he turned to constructive tendencies and created his own painting cycles entitled The Presence of Man and Bird Actors. Throughout his artistic career, he was also intensively involved in architectural realizations. |