Stormy Landscape

The early drawing Stormy Landscape is the most dramatic of Tkadlík’s landscape drawings. The trees may be bending down in the gusts of wind, but the sky and vegetation in the background appear calm, as if detached. The same timeless calm also prevails in majority of his landscape studies, even when his attention is attracted by an unusual rock formation or dramatic mountain outline. Romantic representation of nature as a violent and destructive element is alien to Tkadlík, in his landscape studies he continues to prefer the „moderate“ nature over the „dramatic“ one.