Sedláková Vladimíra *1952

Untitled, from the series Structures and Roughness, 1990 - 4 pcs

mixed media, canvas, 116 × 116 cm, 116 × 116 cm, 116 × 116 cm, 116 × 116 cm, signed on the frame Vladimíra Sedláková 90
Provenance: aquired from the artist's studio. Vladimíra Sedláková is one of the distinctive artistic personalities who entering the Brno art scene in the 1980s, after studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Unlike her artistic peers Vladimír Kokolii, Tomáš Ruller, Petr Veselý and others, she was oriented towards a work based on constructive and geometric artistic tradition. Her solitary artistic outlook shaped painter Robert Hliněnský in the early period, later the artist and theoretician Jiří Valoch, or Igor Zhoř. The path to the artist's distinctive geometric art form led to the early 1980s through works related to urban architecture, in which she made use of her experience from her studies at the Mechanical Engineering School, as well as from her own designing. The purely technical form soon became her unmistakable signature. Precise geometric compositions depicting machine parts, graphs, drawings, did not come from a gradual reduction and simplification, but by transferring technical themes into the field of art. In painting, drawing and printmaking, Sedláková combined the colour composition of the image, in some periods reduced to a monochrome or black and white palette, with scribbled details. In her paintings, often created in series, the artist gradually thematized the principles of mirroring, symmetry, the monochrome quality of the image, lettering, numerical elements, the aesthetics of fine or dense structure, and rasters. Between 1989 and 1992 she dealt with the theme of structure and roughness in her paintings, and between 1992 and 1994 she titled her paintings Characteristics. Since 1994, she has been incorporating new media and working with the computer in the process of creating her work. Vladimíra Sedláková's artistic work is shaped by a concentrated and focused orientation towards geometric creation, creating unique integral work in which, however, there is constant change and variation of the chosen methods and themes, in which the author finds new solutions and impressive artistic representations. Vladimíra Sedláková (b. 1952), Czech painter and graphic artist, graduated from from 1961 to 1967 at the Folk School of Art under the guidance of the eminent Brno painter Robert Hliněnský. In 1967-1971 she continued her studies at the Secondary Industrial School of Engineering in Brno, where she became acquainted with the world of machinery and technology, which played a role in her subsequent work. a key role in her later career. From 1975 to 1980 Sedláková studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the painting studio of Jan Smetana. Concurrently She also studied at the Scene Design School of the Central Committee of the Association of Czechoslovak Amateur Theatre Artists in Prague.