Small circuit II

The work is part of the concept of "green paintings", which is one of the most impressive landscape projects of recent years. These are endless panoramas of rich greenery and rotten centuries -old oaks, in which Zdeněk Daněk moves the boundaries of the open air. Each of the paintings, even the few meters, were created on the spot in the uncultivated part of the Choltice Field, where it resembles a boubín forest rather than a well -kept forest.

Zdeněk Daněk was repeated with the paintings. He worked on weeks, months and some years. He stopped every time the sun began to shine, continued when it was pulled. Based on the consistency of conditions, weather and seasons. He made a detailed analysis of the subject, including many preparatory sketches. He made sure that every brush stroke made sense and painted systematically from the most important to detail. In other words, the open air, which tends to be fast, brief, spontaneous, devoted the patience of the painting studio and created a series of paintings in the exterior, which can equal with monuments of studio classical painting. At the same time, he focused on the green color, as the eye is more sensitive to it and distinguishes more shades and also specifically painted landscapes without heaven, which is not customary in the landscape tradition.

This image is then inaccessible in "green images". The author has a family link to him and at the same time is part of a several -meter panorama, which is surrounded by viewers at exhibitions. This was the case, for example, in the Václav Špála Gallery - DNA paintings (2018) or in the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice - Green Paintings (2022), where a large panoramic catalog came to the exhibition.

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