{"id":9765,"date":"2011-08-03T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:29:21","slug":"the-art-of-leonidas-kryvosej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/08\/03\/the-art-of-leonidas-kryvosej\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And\u011bl z\u00e1padn\u00edho okna.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej is a contemporary Czech Surrealist whose work I’d known for a while from an exhibition catalogue. I’d always wanted to see more so it’s a pleasure to discover a substantial set of paintings<\/a> on the website he shares with Lucie Hruskov\u00e1<\/a>. A biographical note tells us that:<\/p>\n

Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej was born 14th May, 1957 in Moravsk\u00e1 T\u0159ebov\u00e1. He lives in Ondratice near Prost\u011bjov. He has been a member of the surrealist group in Sternberk (later A.I.V) since 1986. Since 1997 a member Czech and Slovak surrealist group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of the text on the site is Czech-only but the green painting above was one of the catalogue works whose English title, The Angel of the Western Window<\/em><\/a>, we can no doubt assume is borrowed from Gustav Meyrink’s occult novel about Elizabethan magus John Dee. Occultism and alchemical symbolism seem to fuel Kryvo\u0161ej’s art, and I like the profusion of wings and mutated bird-like creatures. There’s a lot of work on his gallery pages, all of it worth seeing for anyone who favours this kind of imagery.<\/p>\n

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Ptac\u00ed hra.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And\u011bl z\u00e1padn\u00edho okna. Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej is a contemporary Czech Surrealist whose work I’d known for a while from an exhibition catalogue. I’d always wanted to see more so it’s a pleasure to discover a substantial set of paintings on the website he shares with Lucie Hruskov\u00e1. A biographical note tells us that: Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej was … Continue reading “The art of Leonidas Kryvo\u0161ej”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16,44,18],"tags":[559,358,766,2781,2782],"class_list":["post-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-occult","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-alchemy","tag-gustav-meyrink","tag-john-dee","tag-leonidas-kryvosej","tag-lucie-hruskova"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}