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One of Josef Lada’s famous illustrations comes to life. Two beer fans
from Liberec have invented a mobile beer crate that you can drive home, and
the town of Jilemnice boasts a snow sculpture of the legendary Krakonoš
giant. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Czechs in HistoryJosef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs
from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy
tales and children’s readers as he is for his landscapes, which each
Christmas are printed thousands of times over on the front of the
nation’s Christmas cards. Lada was also the artist who gave the grinning,
rotund Good Soldier Švejk his form.
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ArtsMilan Knizak opens solo exhibition at Manes Gallery
Last week one of the Czech Republic’s most important artists, Milan
Knizak - sculptor, painter, poet, head of the National Gallery and
outspoken pedagogue - opened a new solo show (Recent Work) at Prague’s
Manes Exhibition Hall. Dominant themes include Knizak’s take on the
crucifixion as well as the Madonna with child, painted with a fresh, even
punk sensibility and signature irreverence. Paintings include slogans,
which some reviewers have called “urgent”, others “stinging”:
slogans such as “I hate progress” or “I hate nature”, some in
English, some in Czech. The famous artist makes clear he has lost none of
the enfant terrible spark that defined much of his earlier career; now, as
before, Milan Knizak aims to provoke. More
ArtsRediscovering Jan Zrzavy
A large retrospective exhibition of the works by Jan Zrzavy is currently
being held at Prague's Waldstein Riding School. Although his work attracts
large crowds of Czech art lovers, Zrzavy's reputation does not seem to
extend beyond the Czech borders. In this week's Arts, we look at why Jan
Zrzavy, one of the country's best-known Modernist painters, has yet to be
rediscovered abroad.
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Current AffairsNew collection "reunites" author Jaroslav Hasek with illustrator Josef Lada
"The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War" is the
episodic tale of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army whose own
apparent stupidity is used to critique the absurdities of war. Translated
into 60 languages, it is perhaps the best known Czech work of fiction of
all time. Now, over 80 years after its publication, its author Jaroslav
Hasek and illustrator Josef Lada have been reunited in a new collection.
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What's for Sunday dinner? The mum who was treated to a marihuana "pot
roast", courtesy of her son. Who is stealing the famous Prague Castle
cats? And, a Czech brothel goes on-line. You get everything for free but
the whole world will see you at it. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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Current AffairsJosef Lada's paintings an enduring symbol of Czech Christmas
For many readers around the world, Josef Lada's illustrations of the Good
Soldier Svejk are inextricably linked to the famous character created by
Jaroslav Hasek. But Josef Lada did far more than illustrate Hasek's novel,
and his idealized paintings of carol singers and family gatherings are for
many in this country an enduring symbol of Czech Christmas.
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Czechs in HistoryJosef Lada
If you have friends in the Czech Republic and they send you Christmas
greetings regularly, you might have received an idyllic post card
depicting village children sledge-riding, skating or building a snowman.
They are all dressed up in the style of the 1930s, the most fruitful
period of our Czech in History today - painter and writer Josef Lada.
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