International studio (50.1913)

Studio- Talk

sketch (Kiinstlerhaus, Coding) by k. krepCik


Alois Kalvoda depicts
Moravian villages as peace-
ful as those of England,
or broad thickets in which
the juicy greens are lin-
geringly and delightfully
rendered; Stanislav
Lolek’s pictures showed
other villages vibrating
under the midday sun or
in the calm twilight,
painted with subtlety and
fine atmospheric effects;
while Karel Lehotsky and
Zdenka Vorlova-Vlckova
contributed characteristic
scenes of Moravia. Jakub
Obrovsky of Prague sent
some distinguished pic-
tures dealing with village
subjects, chiefly figural;
above all a Madonna, a
woman and child bathed

A few words must be said
about the exhibits. Uprka
contributed some of those
village scenes and fetes for
which he is so justly cele-
brated. For the right ap-
preciation of these, and
especially his colouring, it is
necessary to understand
what this national life is,
how prominent is the part
which vivid colour plays in
it, and how harmoniously
this colour blends with the
surrounding scenery.
Roman Havelka confined
himself to landscapes of
Moravia rendered lovingly
and with refined sentiment;


when he held an exhibition in his own home in the
Moravian village of Hroznova Lhota, the peasants
came crowding from all
parts to see the pictures.
They paid their entrance
money, bought their cata¬
logues ; the money being
for the benefit of the pro¬
posed society, which has
now become a real thing.

in the glow of the midday
sun, and a double portrait of a man and woman, re-
markable for its colouring and the expression of the

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“sunlight and shadow ::

(Kiinstlerliaus, Coding)

BY ALOIS KALVODA