Mikulas Medek — Czech modern painting — Art Informel
“Mikulas Medek (November 3, 1926 — August 23, 1974) was a Czech painter.He is considered one of the most important representatives of Czech modern painting and one of the most important exponents of the post-war period.Medek’s work initially relies on the tradition of surrealism, later it brings new elements of the spiritual dimension. In 1952, he entered his “existential period” with the central theme of the human character in space, and at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s he came to abstract painting. As a result, so-called “prepared paintings” of color matter, arranged in the form of surface symbols and rationally distributed color formations have come into being. He brings the theme of the basic question of the meaning of human life directly to the color of its original image-making techniques”
