Lot 231

Jan Hladík (1927 - 2018) STRUCTURAL PRINT

The first drawings and graphic sheets created at the end of the war in high school were studies of Cubist principles of painting and image construction, influenced especially by Kubista. Bohumil Kubišta's monograph was brought to Jan Hladík in 1944 by his classmate Mikuláš Medek. A trip to Paris in 1947 and direct experience with the artworks of the Surrealists, Picasso, Braque and other painters led to a gradual relaxation of artistic expression, and by the end of the 1950s, alongside figurative drawings and paintings, the first abstract prints were created. From the mid-1960s onwards, Hladík's works can be classified as part of the new figuration movement with overlaps towards material abstraction.