Painting
Anton Jasusch — Mood Landscape
Anton Jasusch was the most important representative of “Košice modernism”[1] and one of the most important personalities of Slovak art of the first half of the 20th century. He created his original painting program that was based on expressionistic-Art Nouveau language, abstracting shapes, captivating play with colour and addressing basic ontological questions…
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Jozef Jankovič — Head VIII.
Hlava VIII./Head VIII. comes from the famous cycle of reliefs created by Jozef Jankovič during 1986-1997 and it is painted using the colourful epoxide paste into the negative form and named Hlavy/Heads. Jankovič shows in this cycle, as well as in all his artwork, the interest in the human figure, which is not represented as a compact unit, but rather split into fragments with the frequent motif of hands and legs…
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Painting
Július Jakoby — Family with Children
The painting titled Family with Children is a part of the author’s late period. Jakoby portrays three figures and thanks to the composition and the actual title of the painting we can safely assume the portrait is supposed to illustrate…
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Ľudovít Jelenák — A Nitra Motive
Ľudovít Jelenák’s works feature balanced compositions, darker palettes where the predominating colour is black with flashing brighter tones, bold outlines and rich brush strokes. His oeuvre includes paintings of nature and the countryside, agricultural motives, urban vistas and portraits, especially of women…
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Michal Jakabčic — Trees
The Nitra Gallery collection contains several paintings created by Michal Jakabčic. He has left behind a significant artistic footprint full of symbolism that would deserve a more serious theoretical response…
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