Lit.: Srp Karel. Václav Boštík. Prague: Zdeněk Sklenář Gallery, 2011, p. 380.
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At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, Václav Boštík's work underwent an important transformation in the relationship between painting and drawing. Drawing,
which had played a more important role in Boštík's previous work, with the exception of the 1940s.
an accompanying role, became an equal medium, or even fulfilled
role of the main source of inspiration for his paintings. Václav Boštík described
painting and drawing as identical means of expressing
space and light in the two-dimensional surface of the work, which cannot be separated from
distinguishable from each other. The motifs of his works in this period are intertwined and mutually
permeate both in paintings, drawings and prints. This is the case in
Boštík's graphic sheets for the bibliophile edition of the short story Evening
Clouds by Hermann Hesse published in 1989. Minor graphic
works depict in small format motifs of nebulae, clouds, with important
themes of division and beginning, full and empty, blurred
and solid shape, which Boštík dealt with in his parallel painting
work. The mass of light, which gained in monumentality in the paintings,
in the chamber format retained its persuasiveness and gained a certain
intimacy.
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