Dialektika revolty Vliv díla Pabla Picassa v Čechách

Without the influence of Pablo Picasso, Czech modern art would not exist in the form it developed after the Second World War.

The acceptance of his latest work was of fundamental importance. From the widespread use of the dove as a symbol of peace in the 1950s, attention shifted from the end of that decade to Picasso's last works, which the public could see in several solo exhibitions (1965 and 1967). At the same time, Picasso was the subject of a major debate over the nature of realism, which was being grappled with by most contemporary artists, theorists and art historians, such as Jakobson, Teige, Kramář, Filla, Hoffmeister, Padrta, Mukařovský, Kosík and Garaudy. If Cubism was becoming a historical phenomenon, Picasso's most recent positions evoked contradictory responses, which always wove themselves so strongly into the living that the opinion arose that he painted with the sex, not the brush. Art historian Karel Sarp's latest work is accompanied by a set of newly discovered photographs by Dagmar Hochová, taken during Picasso's solo exhibition at the Mánes in Prague in 1967.