Coat

Stanislav Podhrázský studied at the College of Decorative Arts in Prague in 1945-1950 in the studio of František Tichý, where the youngest generation of post-war surrealists gathered. Podhrázký’s fascination with surrealism is reflected not only in his early enigmatic paintings, but also in several sculptures from the late 1940s. The theme of this sculpture is an everyday inanimate object animated by the surrealist imagination - the surface of a realistically modelled coat standing without support is interwoven with protruding veins. The coat thus resembles a living organism, a kind of second skin for its owner.