Záludnosti stylu u Podobenství Evangelia Růženy Zátkové
The Intricacies of Style in Růžena Zátková’s Parable of the Gospel

Summary/Abstract: The cycle Parables of the Gospel by Růžena Zátková was considered missing. Still, it appeared in scholarly literature, and in the 1990s even at an exhibition, but always as the work of the much more famous painter Natalia Gončarová. What were the reasons for this? Was it intention, ignorance, or was the confusion caused by the primitive “Russian” style chosen? Zátková’s unorthodox alternations between different stylistic principles; her returns to the past and at the same time the avant-garde solutions she often mixed interchangeably led not only to erroneous attributions but also to erroneous dating. The parable is from 1920 and formally returns to Russian neoprimitivism. What about his “retrospective” stylistic level? Is it closer to the tradition of conscious returns as we know them from the 19th century, or does it foreshadow a future open relationship to originality and the question of appropriations? From this point of view, how can we place the Parable of the Gospel in the context of European, or even Czech, art?

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