Lot 178

Jan Koblasa (1932 - 2017) EMOTIONAL LIFE I

From the opinion of PhDr. Mahuleny Nešlehová: "The painting, which is an authentic work of the important sculptor, painter, graphic artist and writer Jan Koblasa (1932 - 2017), belongs to the expressively conceived figural cycle Emotional Life. He conceptualized the figure unconventionally as a flat, silhouetted sign, which in the physiognomy of the individual depicted heads he concretized it with a pattern of energetic and delicate lines and scratches that depicted the tension of emotional movement. With a sense of humor and irony (not excluding self-irony), he more than once turned a figural sign conceived in this way into a grin, or forcibly "took" it out of its environment and turned it into a mere tsar. Not an exception is the unsettling, maba Emotional Life I, which confirms the artist's invention. It is most likely the first painting of the given cycle. Koblasa entrusts the tension and action of emotional life in it to spontaneous scratches and fragile lines that accentuate the physiognomic features of the face of the standing male nude. Also soft pinkish the tones of the naked character silhouette of the body as well as the choice of contrasting colors of the image space specify the given psyc hic situation - they refer to its instability and changeability, to the near reversal of the vivacity of hopes embodied in the blue background in the weight of black, hopeless depression contained in the geometrically defined field behind the figure."