Boštík Václav 1913–2005

Evening Clouds, 5 pcs, 1989

bibliophilia, colour combined technique - 5 pcs, handmade paper, 173/00, 17,5 × 13,1 cm, signed in pencil UD Boštík, A.T./200, box

In the late 1970s and early 1980s. years of the 20th century, the work of Václav Boštík an important change in the relationship between painting and drawing. Drawing, which had played a role in Boštík's in Boštík's work, with the exception of the 1940s, was rather an accompanying role, became an equal medium, or even fulfilled the role of the main source of inspiration for his paintings. Václav Boštík described painting and drawing in this period as identical means of expressing space and light in the two-dimensional surface of the work, which is not indistinguishable from each other. The motifs of his works in this period are intertwined and interpenetrating in both paintings, drawings and graphic sheets. This is also true of Boštík's five graphic sheets for the bibliophilic edition of Boštek's short story Evening Clouds by Hermann Hesse published by in 1989. The small graphic works depict in small format motifs of nebulae, clouds, with the important theme of division and beginning, full of and empty, blurred and solid shapes, which Boštík dealt with in parallel in his painting. The mass of light, which in the paintings in the chamber format retained its persuasiveness and gained a certain intimacy and intimacy. together