Plastron
Plastron
3D
Published 2019-07-04T16:10:43+00:00
Sculptor Zdeněk Dvořák was an exceptional figure in Czech fine art of the 1920s and 1930s. While knowledge of his work was confined to just a handful of abstract reliefs preserved in public institutions for decades, he is now recognised as one of the most prominent Czech geometric abstractionists of the 20th century.
Two separate styles crystallized in Zdeněk Dvořák’s work of the 1930s - realism encompassing official commissions and intimate figural sculpture and non-public abstraction representing a unique concentrated research of the possibilities of purely abstract sculpture in the Czech art of this period. Dvořák’s abstract reliefs inspired by the biomorphic vocabulary of the paintings of František Foltýn and likely the reliefs of Hans Arp are composed as sets of concave and convex planary organic forms and dynamic curves that overlap and merge.
| Date published | 04/07/2019 |
| Title | Plastron |
| Date | Around 1935 |
| Dimension | Height 43 cm, width 50 cm |
| Accession | P 5693 |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Record | http://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en/dielo/CZE:NG.P_5693 |
| Artist | Zdenek Dvorak |
| Place | Veletrzni Palace National Gallery, Prague |
