Pražák Palacecurators Ivo Binder, Kaliopi Chamonikola
entrance fee Adult 40 CZKR
Reduced 20 CZK
Group 15 CZK/pers.
Family 90 CZK
Free entry every first Friday of the month.
The most comprehensive exhibition from the collection of Czech art of the 20th century is to be found on the third floor of the Prazak Palace. Its title, The Fire of Prometheus was inspired by one of crucial works of modern Czech art owned by the gallery, Prometheus by Antonin Prochazka. The Moravian Gallery collection amply documents the period in which the founding generation of Czech modernism worked, and the inter-war avant-garde.
Visit this exhibition on-line.The most comprehensive sections at the exhibition are those featuring the work of painters Antonin Prochazka and Frantisek Foltyn and sculptor Vincenc Makovsky. Avant-garde groups such as Osma [The Eight], Tvrdosijni [The Obstinate] and The Group of Visual Artists are represented by selected works of Bohumil Kubista, Emil Filla, Antonin Prochazka, Josef Capek, Vaclav Spala, Otto Gutfreund and others.
Paintings and sculptures by the representatives of Czech cubism are shown side by side with graphic and applied art: ceramics and furniture designs by Josef Gocar, Vlastislav Hofman, Pavel Janak and Antonin Prochazka. One part of the exhibition is devoted to imaginative art between the wars. Several outstanding paintings by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen reflect artificialism; Czech pre-war surrealism is represented by works of Frantisek Janousek, Josef Sima, Frantisek Muzika and others. The specific contribution of the Brno artistic environment between the wars is demonstrated, towards the end of the exhibition, by a selection of abstract paintings by Frantisek Foltyn, sculptures by Vincenc Makovsky and pictures by Jaroslav Kral, as well as by sample works of applied art of the generation between the wars, architect Jan Vanek, Ludvika Smrckova, Ladislav Sutnar and others.
Exhibition layout:
Faces
Osma - The Wave of Expressionism
The Struggle for Shape - Czech Cubism
Life among Sharp Angles
Tvrdosijni and Individual Variations on Cubism
The Imaginative Approach - Poetism and the Surrealists of the 1930s
Brno between the Wars
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