Rotterova’s Printmaking Quietly Intense

There are works of art that engage the viewer right away. You look, you see a tree and you think you got it. They might, however, lack mystery or an impulse that triggers your imagination. Romana Rotterova’s unique prints with circles, curves and velvety lines offer you just that – a mysterious story of quietly intense perception.

Romana Rotterova, Relationships I, 1968, intaglio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Beauty of Thought: Jiri Kolar’s Visual Poetry

Strangely enough, I had to move over the Atlantic Ocean to discover many Czech and Slovak artists of the 20^th century avant-garde. Jiri Kolar (1914 – 2002), a prolific Czech poet, visual artist and translator, created a vast body of work, collages, that prompted my recent explorations in printmaking and its application for relief and 3D work.