The future of civilization Part 3

The Sixties

Člověk a vesmír(The Man and The Universe), about 1960-62, oil, canvas, 300 x 500 cm, there is a second name on the reverse side – The Man and Eternity.

Father´s narration over unfolded canvas has remained somewhat  obscure to me because he was talking about philosofical questions of life,something like harmony between mankind and the universe,a miracle of nature,the miracle mankind should not breach…  „look,there are distant worlds out there,the stars and the planets floating through the space…and down her there is an earthbound humankind…“  I suppose that this complex work is  striving to insinuate a question:

Is mankind able to learn from experienced war horrors and political processes, or not ? 

Z řetězů poroby (From Chains of Subjection), year  ca.1960, oil, canvas, cca 240 x 180 cm

Father told me about this painting ,that it was supposed to symbolize disintegration of colonies in Africa.It should have expressed a way to freedom …

The Seventies

The anti-war works of the Seventies are rather different from all the anti-war works from years  39-68.The fine art conception is changing partially too.The essential change of my father´s way of seeing the  world  was caused by the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.Father did not understand when  given books of Vaculík,Kundera and  of other writters from my mother in period of The Prague Spring.Only the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia changed my father´s  world  view  completely.

There were no more liberators and bad capitalists here…I was arrested and convicted of taking part on anti-occupiers manifestations in 1969,in year of the 1st occupation anniversary.Only after that, my father started to get interested in literature of present authors.In literature ,supplied by our mother, was also Solzhenitsyn – particularly samizdat issue of  „Archipelag  Gulag“ book.

Okupace 1968 (The Occupation ), oil,canvas ,canvas, ca. 110 x 140 cm

Normalizace 1969 (The Normalization ), oil, canvas, ca. 120 x 160 cm