Among houses

Conception of landscape in the contemporary art is characterized by rectilinearity and schematism, it is bet on reduction and accidentality. In the backround remain secondarily usual, artistically properer derivations of natural motifs observed from reality.

Subjective, lyric articulation in Marta Kolářová’s work agrees with this older approach from its beginning. As a result of slow process there is restriction of final geometrical form, which could be significantly seen in her work from the last years.

With slight change in space and surface conception in paintings, another typical feature of her paintings is gradually developed – processuality and temporality – the principle of repetition, which is one of the basic principles, that means natural axioms of contemporary art. This has various form and almost anxious repetition in Marta Kolářová’s work in long-term period, which nowadays is going through thorough revision.

In the case of each reflection of Marta Kolářová’s work is necessary to consider an aspect, which maybe obvious, however very fundamental. It is possible to define explicitly range of purely exquisite elements of classical painting. The author is amplifying this in her work by emphasizing graduation of emotional perception of painted object. She is trying to depict inner psychology of things and gentle energy of contact between elementary features of subject and object, that means between the artist and the object.

From this point of view we can consider the major part of Marta Kolářová’s work to be the inheritance of realistic tradition in Czech painting.

Marta Kolářová’s work has significantly developed during last two or three years. Concomitant and the most significant feature of the change in her paintings is innovated colourfulness, which becomes less sophisticated, but it is more pictorial, strictly realized and clearly formulated. Undoubtedly, there is an expression of superior artistic self-confidence bringing certain risks, despite no latent attendance in performance of Marta Kolářová’s work for this moment.

Newly interpreted in two ways is also the space. Older “mechanical” process (Summer I-IV, 2009) started to be accompanied by less progressive and it is possible to say by standard artistic approaches (Beautiful trip I-III, 2009). Marta Kolářová is not an artistic architect - that differs her from the other contemporary landscape painters. Differences in approach are explicit. For creating the other space is not enough to use simple horizontal line and net of vertical lines. Artistic painting, movement and sensorial perception are understandably performed at the expense of emergency simplicity and false mysteriousness, concise claim at the expense of useless drama.

Marta Kolářová speaks the current art language fluently and what is more, she can transform it perfectly and understandably into classical nobleness and unprecedented inner monumentality.
David Majer