Jeníček

Stanislav Podhrázský studied painting 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 in which illusive realism is combined with deformation based on anxious visions and traumas of the unconscious. The embodiment of a horrifying vision in the form of a human fetus with a deformed body, which suffers but also grotesque is unprecedented in Czech surrealism for its urgency and intensity.