KAREL KROUPA Elements&fragments of female bodies/ORIGINAL ETCHING 1984, 37/90

Description: KAREL KROUPA Elements&fragments of female bodies/ORIGINAL ETCHING 1984, 37/90 The subject matter is nude female acts depicted as fragments and shortcuts of female bodies. The motive seems to be an original one of this artist. The instant shows a composition of different sorts and kinds of fragments of female bodies. The spiritual content reveals a particular synthesise of cubism and expressionism which is characteristic for this master. It is an illustration of Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil. The form of art is a graphic one, particularly etching Dimensions (in mm //inches) is ca. 250 x 185 // 10 x 7,1 Image (in mm //inches) is ca. 225 x 100 // 8,7 x 3,7 Condition: As a whole, it seems to be appreciated as a good one. There are no pinholes. There are no stains on the front and the back. The paper sheet has some creases and bends which did not damage the image. Artist’s Main Feature: Belonging to the so-called middle generation of Czech artists KAREL KROUPA (*1930) seems to be imbued with a spirit of art which reveals in him an academic painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Between 1949 and 1954 he seriously studied landscape painting at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where his teachers were Jan Bauch and Emil Filla. Kroupa seems to be a Prague artist because he lives and creates permanently in the capital. The mainstream of his work is the field of liberal arts, especially with an emphasis on the depiction of feeling and admiration for the female nude. Kroupa was a member of the Czech Fine Arts Fund (ČFVU) and at one time he was a member of the art association (group) «R club». At the beginning of his working life, Karel Kroupa tries to synthesise cubism and expressionism in his works of art. In the end, he is looking for his expression for the urgent feelings of the urgent pressures of the modern everyday. He was active in several art disciplines. He grouped his works in painting, graphics and sculpture into open thematic units creating cycles dedicated to Prague, Italy and Aesop’s fables. He was also close to the themes of Prague at the beginning of the 20th century (the time of the writers Kisch, and Kafka).A large part of his artistic activities was also devoted to the needs of the every day, which was reflected, for example, in the realisation of posters. For a peace poster, he received the second prize in an international competition in Moscow in the year 1986. The main subject matter of his works of art is the figure of a woman — the cycles «Against War», «Against Violence», «Antique Cycle», «Let the Muses Be Silent», «Family and Woman» and Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil. In the intimate themes related to female nudes, one can find lines of sensual explosiveness but also anxiety and fear. The female body is not depicted as a pleasing aesthetic category but as fragments, a dynamic shortcut or the torso of a Baudelaire poem. Kroupa’s female nudes contain the transience of time and the eternal impatience of female nature.

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Location: Prague

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