BOHDAN LACINA, Surrealistic landscape, Summer, ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVING 1947

Description: BOHDAN LACINA/Summer/view of village /ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVING 1947 Specification Continent: #Europa #Czechoslovakia Motive: #vita rustica #landscape Artist’s Main Feature: #The well-known representative of the Czech surrealism and avant-garde, LACINA BOHDAN (1912–1971) was an academic painter and graphic, book illustrator and sculptor and teacher in many high schools. His artistic style seems to arise during the time of WWII under influence of surrealism on developed further into the avant-garde. Lacina painted fantastic images and figures which were full of lyric metamorphoses and were inspired by landscapes, men, things, and musical themes. Since 1950 he devoted himself to graphic work and illustration of books came back to painting in the year 1958. His lyric painting perception of reality is based on his original poetic and philosophical meditations. His sources of inspiration spanned from sensual experience, imaginative seeking of archetypes of nature, things and human existence to a fascination with landscapes and mythology until he finally united all these elements and made a synthesis of them into cosmic visions and symbols of human destiny Subject: The surrealistic view of a village through the grass. Age: #1947 Medium: #wood engraving Originality: #Original wood engraving. First published in the book Jindřich Marco, O grafice, Praha 1981, 62. Signature: pencil signed by the author Size (in mm): The overall size is ca. 320 x 400. The image size is ca. 185 x 250 Size (in inches): The overall size is ca. 12.6 x 15.74The image size is ca. 7.28 x 9.84 Condition: Grading: Good Corners: GoodWriting to back: YesWriting to front: NoStains on front: No Stains on back: No Creases or bends: NoTears: No Pin holes: No Short biography of the artist: Born in the small Czech provincial village in the family of a master of a bakery LACINA BOHDAN (1912–1971) began to make his artistic career under the influence of his brother, who gave him the advice to try himself in art. Lacina graduated from the High School of Architecture in Prague where his teachers were his countrymen Oldřich Blažíček, a famous master of modern landscape painting, and Cyril Bouda, the artist of supreme genius. Lacina made his debut in art as a member of the so-called Left-Front to keep a balance between the influences of his models such as Josef Šíma, Salvator Dali and other surrealists. But his real apprenticeship was passed under Karel Teige, the Czech modernist avant-garde artist, and through the relationship with the artistic Avant-garde. In the 1930s Lacina belongs to the Group RA, an association of the Czech surrealists. His first exhibition was in the so-called D37, and immediately after finishing WWII he participated in the exhibition of the Czechoslovak Avant-Garde. But his works were present abroad because he was a member of the expedition Art tchécoslovaque 1938-1946 in Paris and in Brussels. It is certainly the acquaintance with František Halas, the most prominent Czech lyric poet and with Oldřich Menhart who was a typographer named «the prince of the Czech book culture» that displayed his relationship to the Czech book graphic. Lacina had illustrated 60 books. Lacina made a solid pedagogical career in Brno. In 1968 he was awarded the title of meritorious artist.

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