Solitude (Birds taking flight) Miloš Alexander Bazovský 1957

Solitude (Birds taking flight)
Miloš Alexander Bazovský 1957
From the collection of
Slovak National Gallery
The non-idealised, expressive and authentic visual style of Miloš Alexander Bazovský strived towards the spiritual core of the Slovak rural life. He examined the eternal principles behind life, work, home, struggle, humility, faith, memory and death.

After clash with dogmatic state power in the 1950's, he retreated to Orava, where his most poignant creative period started. Repeating motifs of lone houses, courtyards, farming tools, birds, cats, solitary figures and heavenly objects, the artist created an enigmatic world of solitude and passing from reality. Bazovský described the almost hallucinatory finale of his creation as – “half-surreal,” and “delirium colorans”.

More information and other artworks by the artist:
http://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.O_2424
Details
Title: Solitude (Birds taking flight)
Creator: Miloš Alexander Bazovský
Date: 1957/1957
Location: Orava
Physical Dimensions: w84.5 x h54.3 centimeters
Type: painting

Slovak National Gallery
Bratislava, Slovakia

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Miloš Alexander Bazovský
1899 - 1968

Miloš Alexander Bazovský was an eminent Slovak painter, often ranked among the most prominent figures of 20th-century art from Slovakia.
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