Vladimir Komarek

Saskatchewan NAC Auction House Biography and Notes

Czech painter, illustrator, graphic artist and lecturer Vladimir Komarek was a leading figure in Czech fine art of the 20th century. While his early works are characterized by considerable expressiveness, for his paintings from his mature and crucial period, the characteristic lyricism is solemn and captivatingly poetic. The mosaic expression was mainly gentle colors and blurry contours, which brings a unique atmosphere to his paintings. He painted ordinary things, objects that surrounded him inside and outside his home. His poetic motifs of flowers, clouds, trees, secluded places, swans, angel creatures, and ordinary items - windows, doors, facades, ladders, and figures, faces and biblical themes emerge in his paintings as blurred silhouettes out of imaginary space.