Jiří Kolář
This article needs additional citations for verification. (July 2014) |
Jiří Kolář ⓘ (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art.
Life
Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914, in a working-class environment. His father was a baker and his mother a seamstress, and he himself trained early in life as a cabinet maker (which cost him a finger).
Kolář was one of a group of several artists, among whom
Literary work
Kolář's poetry was first published in 1938 in a private edition; these early poems are not included in his complete work, probably because they are openly erotic, describing oral sex (Ústnice), sex positions (Svícen a trakař) and sex with a prostitute (Růže Večernice).
During the years of
Poetry
- Křestný list (1941)
- Sedm kantát (1945)
- Limb a jiné básně (1945)
- Ódy a variace (1946)
- Dny v roce (1948)
- Mistr Sun o básnickém umění (1957)
- Básně ticha (1965)
- Evidentní poezie (1965)
- L'enseigne de Gersaint (1965, also in English and German, title taken from Watteau's painting)
- Vršovický Ezop (1966)
- Nový Epiktet (1968)
- Návod k upotřebení (1969)
- Očitý svědek (Munich 1983)
- Prométheova játra (Toronto 1985, Prague 1991)
- Roky v dnech (1992)
Translations and re-told stories
- Ezop: Bajky (1957, adaptation of old Czech texts)
- Kocourkov (1959, based on Johann Friedrich von Schönberg, written with Josef Hiršal)
- O podivuhodném životě mudrce Ezopa, který rozuměl řeči ptáků, zvířat, hmyzu, rostlin i věcí (1960, adaptation of old Czech texts, written with Hiršal)
- Enšpígl (1962, adaptation of old German texts, written with Hiršal)
- Baron Prášil (1965, based on Gottfried August Bürger, written with Hiršal)
Plays
- Mor v Athénách (1965)
- Unser täglich Brot (Vienna 1966, translated by K. B. Schäufellen, in Czech Chléb náš vezdejší, Prague 1991)
Visual art
His first exhibitions in 1937 focused on his collages.[6] In the 1960s Kolář first combined painting and poetry but he gradually turned completely to experiments in visual art. In his work he used a scalpel to cut pictures out of magazines. He produced colors in his collages by gluing on printed fragments of paper from various different sources.
His collages were intended to influence the viewer's outlook on life; the technique of using fragments of text and images from various different sources was well suited to achieve the effect Kolář wanted, by showing the destruction and fragmentation of the world Kolář inhabited. Simultaneously, by juxtaposition and contrasting of these different fragments the technique of the collage served to create surprising and visually striking new combinations; for instance, the combination of astronomical maps with Braille writing. Kolář invented or helped to develop new techniques of collage – confrontage, froissage, rollage, chiasmage and others.
From the 1960s Kolář's visual artwork was featured regularly in exhibitions by galleries and museums. Some of the more prominent exhibitions of his work were in the New York Guggenheim museum in 1975, in Prague in 1994 in Dům U Černé Matky Boží,[7] in Madrid in 1996 in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.[8]
-
Jiří Kolář, In full sunlight (1959), collage
-
Jiří Kolář, Cast down face (1960), stratifie
-
Jiří Kolář, Musical Circle (1965), embossed chiasmage
-
Jiří Kolář, Descriptive portrait (1963), collage
-
Jiří Kolář, Lady in love (1967), rollage-cubomania
-
Jiří Kolář, No title (1959–1962), rollage
-
Jiří Kolář, Serve to Muse, at least once (1962), froissage
-
Jiří Kolář, Hommage to Jan Palach (1968–1969), rollage and collage
-
Jiří Kolář, Beautiful hell (1971), prollage
-
Jiří Kolář, P.F. 89 (1988), intercollage
-
Jiří Kolář, No title (1965), scratched collage and chiasmage
-
Jiří Kolář, Lohengrin, comics (1964), collage
-
Jiří Kolář, Sleepers (1952), confrontage
-
Jiří Kolář, W. A. Mozart (60s), chiasmage, collaged object
-
Jiří Kolář, Odalisque (1964), unzipped collage, rollage
Notes
- ^ www.artmuseum.net
- ^ www.theguardian.com
- ^ Panorama ceské literatury, p. 339,
- ^ Slovník české literatury
- ^ "Jiří Kolář | ARTMUSEUM.CZ".
- ^ "Jirí Kolár, objetos y collages | Library catalogue | Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí". www.salvador-dali.org. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- ^ Slovník českých spisovatelů od roku 1945 I. díl, p. 400
- ^ "Jiři Kolář. Objetos y collages | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
External links
- Complete works of Kolář published in 1990s (in Czech)
- Artist Jiří Kolář ARTLIST- database of contemporary Czech art
- The New York Times article
- Jiří Kolář Bibliography