Sopko Jiří *1942

Rat, 1977

acrylic, canvas, frame, 22 × 19,5 cm, signed bottom right SOPKO 77
Jiří Sopko is undeniably one of the most important representatives of the Czech progressive painting of the second half of the last century and the beginning of this century. His expression is characterized from an early period by a sense of expression the grotesqueness of life around us, for subtle irony and black humour. His his paintings are marked by a distinctive poetics, a sense of simplified forms and a distinctive colour chords.