Here are some last pictures from a trip to the Veletrzni Palac in Holesovice, Prague 7. The constructivist structure was built in the 1920s, very progressive for the time. Although its kind of dull and lame-looking now, the supremo of modernist architecture Le Corbusier even gave it a shout-out back in the day.
I went with my friend Jorge, who's taking a looking at the building . . .
It houses a collection of Czech Cubist furniture and architectural design, one of the Czech land's greatest idiosyncratic embellishments on modern art. Here's Jorge with a cubist couch:
It also has some Czech Expressionism. Here is a Filla self-portrait that I wrote my final Czech Art and Architecture paper on, regarding the early creation of Bohemian identities in self-portraits. The employment of a cigarette as a symbol of marginal identity hasn't changed much . . .
2 comments:
i remember that we saw some frantisek kupka that day and i saw some of his paintings in paris too, and i felt smart and very proud of that czech guy that was famous...
anywhoooo....
it sucks you left jake, tomorrow is free wednesday in the museum maybe ill go tomorrow
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