Plastron

Two separate styles crystallized in Zdeněk Dvořák’s work of the 1930s - realism encompassing official commissions and intimate figural sculpture and non-public abstraction representing a unique concentrated research of the possibilities of purely abstract sculpture in the Czech art of this period. Dvořák’s abstract reliefs inspired by the biomorphic vocabulary of the paintings of František Foltýn and likely the reliefs of Hans Arp are composed as sets of concave and convex planary organic forms and dynamic curves that overlap and merge.