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Artists
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Ladislav Hanka About the Artist: "My artwork is based in a sense of awe before nature; the desire to know and record it intimately and to do the creation honor. It was this that originally brought me to art and it is through a constant renewal of this relation in solitude and careful observation that I continue to be effective. As an artist one is naturally selective and there is an abstraction and stylization inherent in any activity recording the complexities of this earth. It is however through faithful observation and identification with subject matter that one sees as ensouled that this interpretive activity gains the credibility to be persuasive. The bundle of sticks that means tree or the stick figure denoting man are mere signs with relatively arbitrary and limited meaning. A more universally evocative symbolic power must come from a deeper understanding of the particular which has evidently been observed and internalized." |
