Běla Kolářová
Běla Kolářová née Helclová (born 24 March 1923, Terezín - died 12 April 2010, Prague[1]) was a Czech artist and photographer.[2]
Běla Kolářová belongs to the generation which touched off an iconoclastic revolution and "rearmament" in Czech art during the 1960s. This new wave hit the scene with a program of objective tendencies, proclaiming that art can exist as a process, concept, method, experiment and language, or as something "concrete"—such as a found and designed object.Kolářová’s training is in photography, and her role in the 1960s reversal was associated with this medium from the beginning. As with many of her contemporaries, she arrived at the conclusion that it is not possible to photograph the world, i.e. to use classic methods of representing reality.
She therefore invented her own method and technology, the artificial negative.She pressed small objects into layers of parafin on small pieces of celophane, or she actually applied small fragments of natural and artificial materials. Instead of choosing the world that it is possible to photograph and represent as an exterior appearance, she chose the world that is possible to accept, to appropriate as an assemblage of material fragments, using light to transfer them into an autonomous picture on the sensitive surface of photographic paper.
In 1949 she married Jiří Kolář. In 1985 she followed her husband in exile in Paris.[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- Kolářová, Běla (1999), Objekty a asambláže, Praha: Torst, ISBN 8085639157
- Kolářová, Běla (2003), Běla Kolářová, Praha: Arbor vitae, ISBN 80-86300-38-2
- Valoch, Jiří (2006), Běla Kolářová, Praha: Národní galerie, ISBN 8070353244
- Kolářová, Běla (2008), Běla Kolářová, Praha: Museum Kampa, ISBN 9788025425022
[edit] References
- ^ "Výtvarnice Běla Kolářová zemřela. Většinu života tvořila ve stínu manžela Jiřího" (in Czech). Hospodářské noviny. 2010-04-13. http://kultura.ihned.cz/c1-42489120-vytvarnice-bela-kolarova-zemrela-vetsinu-zivota-tvorila-ve-stinu-manzela-jiriho. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ a b "Běla Kolářová" (in Czech). Centrum pro současné umění Praha. http://artlist.cz/?id=1467. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
[edit] External links
- Artlist Běla Kolářová
- National Gallery in Prague Běla Kolářová
- Daily Journal of International Exhibitions
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