International studio . torial art theyhave developed a school with distinctly nationaltraits amid which but little trace of exotic influenceis now discernible. Perhaps the most representa-tive member of this school at the present day isJoza Uprka, whose painting Saking a Lost Al/igwe reproduce as a supplement. Uprka hails fromMoravia, and there it is that he seeks and finds themotives for his pictures. Writing of this artist ina little brochure issued a few months ago by theLondon Czech Committee, Mr. Prochazka says :Uprkas canvases rebelliously but triumphantlydance in light and colour: the a
International studio . torial art theyhave developed a school with distinctly nationaltraits amid which but little trace of exotic influenceis now discernible. Perhaps the most representa-tive member of this school at the present day isJoza Uprka, whose painting Saking a Lost Al/igwe reproduce as a supplement. Uprka hails fromMoravia, and there it is that he seeks and finds themotives for his pictures. Writing of this artist ina little brochure issued a few months ago by theLondon Czech Committee, Mr. Prochazka says :Uprkas canvases rebelliously but triumphantlydance in light and colour: the artist lives and feelswith the subjects of his paintings: work in themeadows and fields, village life, joys, feasts, dances,prayers. In his art there is nothing melancholy:no shadows, no miseries, no dying, as if in his happyland people never died nor knew of death. Thefiirs and feasts especially have fascinated him, foron these occasions the people assemble in their galacostumes and the villages are ablaze with spring sunlight198 BY ]oi\ UPRKA.
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