Kamil Lhoták, 1912-1990
Bouda, 1962
Oil on canvas
The painter Kamil Lhoták was one of the founding members of the artistic Group 42, which, since its foundation in 1942, was programmatically interested in city life, the urban landscape and the urban periphery. Its activities lasted into the 1950s and 1960s. She perceived the city as the world in which modern society lives and therefore as a fundamental factor in the process of shaping, forming and finally deforming man. The visuality of the group’s artistic expression was determined by the search for beauty in ordinary, seemingly unaesthetic motifs in the form of means of transport and factory chimneys. The exhibited painting fulfils these aesthetic parameters without fail. It is a raw record of the hut reduced to basic geometric shapes, but the artist has injected a special dreaminess and poetry into it through soft, blurred painting.
