Kolář Jiří 1914–2002
Timetable, 1970
serigraphy, paper, frame, glass, in woodcut
95 × 67 cm, signed on the reverse UD J. Kolář '70
Jiří Kolář was slowly coming to his most important
procedures since the 1940s. From the beginning
he applied the diary method. He collected motifs that
and then used them when the idea matured.
However, he invented most of his own techniques in the period
from the late 1950s to the second half
of the sixties. Their predecessors became
confrontation, reportage and found collage, in which
he arranged reproductions cut from magazines according to
certain relationships and their associated rules.
He once said that the word for him at a certain period
...it lost its original meaning and fell apart,
because it had been misused. Then he realized,
that letters or numbers could be used as a visual
signs without any other content. So he created
what he called obvious poetry, which he thought was
any poetry that was not expressed in words.
He was also always concerned with the blending of different eras
of art history. He linked, for example, motifs
of Baroque paintings with the paintings of the great masters of the 20th century.
century. Principles that he developed in his written poetry,
he also used in his visual expression. In doing so, he did not rely
to a strict order, but he also naturally applied
poetic imagination and playfulness.
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auction 65
starting price
10 000 CZK
€ 410
hammer price
11 000 CZK