The basis of the 20th-century Czech art collection is a series of works acquired at the beginning of the 1960s. The museum’s founders and first collectors were enabled by the favourable social atmosphere of the day to create one of the finest collections of Czech modern art at that time in this country. Led by the attempt to reflect the development of art in its structured form and period context, their efforts focused on classical modernism of the 1920s and ’30s, the art of the war years, the emergence of new art groups at the end of the 1950s up to the contemporary trends of the 1960s. This stage of dynamic collecting activity was brought to an end by the hard-line post-1968 regime, accompanied by the replacement of the gallery’s administration. The continuity of the gallery’s collecting programme was thus irreversibly disrupted. During the 1970s and ’80s, the gallery’s collecting programme focused instead on forms of artistic traditionalism. The collection was enhanced with several high-quality acquisitions of 19th-century art, art from the turn of the 20th century and a series of examples drawn from realist trends. It also purchased works of tendential art, however, and art that was merely acceptable to the regime of the day. The supplementing of the collection with modern art stagnated.
Language:Czech, English
Digital Format:JPEG/JFIF, TIFF Image
Digital Type:Text, Still image, Map (raster image)
Subject:Culture > Art
Culture > Art > Contemporary art
Culture > Visual arts
Culture > Visual arts > Plastic arts
Culture > Visual arts > Graphic arts
Culture > Museums
Modern and contemporary > 19th century
Modern and contemporary > 20th century
Modern and contemporary > 21st century
Modern and contemporary
Eastern European, Middle European, Western European
Spatial Coverage: Famous People:Robert Rauschenberg
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