Gouache and tempera 1977-2008
Opening Thursday, June 4, 2009 15 am to 21 pm
Exhibition from June 4 to July 11, 2009
Ivan Sobotka was born in 1927 in a small town in Moravia, Moravské Budějovické. In 1946 he began his studies at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Prague under Professor Sychra, then he will join the section of Professor Pukli. He graduated in 1951.
" The face is even easier, the expression is contained in the eyes, the color is monochrome, therefore it only uses three primary colors, white, gray and blue. It will decrease further thereafter. In the mouth there is only a single line, an arch of the eyebrow common nose. Later he also eyebrows, nose, just a line, only the eyes still gain more meaning. From seemingly simple and readable, in effect a gradual climb to the latency, latency invisible at first glance. In the eyes of these faces there is the story hidden in the Old Testament prophets, apostles. The portraits are imaginary only the form, content is in the eye where a story is hidden, a quote from the Bible that has thought long Sobotka, caught and then hidden away. Who has no patience and can not stop in the quiet, without his own ambitions aside, to watch, it will never appreciate the beauty of paintings Sobotka . Placák January
