VLADIMÍR VÉLA

• I have a few friends with whom I talk about art problems,00:00:07.214
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• about those things that I think are interesting,00:00:14.942
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• but there's lot of talk about the art traffic - exhibitions, and projects.00:00:19.696
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• I think I draw on my childhood experiences, the environment I know.00:00:36.954
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• I woudn't really describe myself as a conceptual artist,00:00:43.754
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• I paint things that come to me spontaneously in the process.00:00:54.466
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• It is based on a feeling, the painting itself00:00:59.752
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• must grab my attention, makle me excited.00:01:04.187
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• That's most important.00:01:08.586
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• Currently I paint colour blotches, I see the colour patch as space00:01:12.052
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• into which one can project a feeling, painting being the platform.00:01:16.908
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• There is no system in it.00:01:27.226
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• WHAT IS THE THEME OF YOUR PAINTINGS?00:01:32.172
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• With the blotches, it's mainly figures,00:01:37.791
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• or it is figurative in some way.00:01:41.646
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• The figures are named "Him", something in between,00:01:44.926
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• anonymous figure.00:01:48.254
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• For me, the titles aren't so important.00:01:51.324
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• But I think they can act as a lead, way to get closer to the painting.00:01:54.424
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• Sometimes it is based more on a theme, or the shape,00:02:00.181
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• and then the title is "Triangle", for instance. So it's quite simple,00:02:05.489
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• the main thing is the feeling one has, that which is projected00:02:11.199
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• from the canvas and into the head.00:02:15.602
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• IS THE SIZE OF A PAINTING IMPORTANT TO YOU?00:02:19.874
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• I used to think that it's good to do large paintings,00:02:24.403
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• and it is, sometimes, and sometimes small is good, too.00:02:30.026
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• Lately I've been less interested in the size.00:02:37.891
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• It is not about that.00:02:47.739
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• LOOKING BACK, HOW DO YOU PERCEIVE YOUR REALISTIC PAINTINGS?00:02:54.075
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• It was a period when I enjoyed painting rats.00:02:59.149
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• It emerged out of familiar environment but I didn't want to overdo it,00:03:03.717
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• I wanted to try different way of thinking and processes,00:03:08.694
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• so I changed it.00:03:13.892
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• But I have no problem with it, it's not like I have thrown out those works.00:03:16.943
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• Maybe one day I'll paint realistically again. Why not.00:03:22.077
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• Perhaps what's remained is certain craftsamnship, quality of finish.00:03:27.271
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• DO YOU MAKE A LIVING FROM PAINTING?00:03:39.820
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• Well, I teach.00:03:44.240
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• That's how I make a living.00:03:47.128
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• I will be earning a living one way or another,00:03:50.546
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• and paint in the meantime, that is most important.00:03:53.561
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• Most interesting, too, and totally fulfilling,00:03:56.993
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• so it doesn't bother me that I can't do it as a job.00:04:01.384
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• Usually I go to my studio in the evening.00:04:05.371
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• I get some sleep, then I go to a pub, or the studio.00:04:09.889
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• I think I give it quite a lot of time.00:04:16.706
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• Sometimes I'm there 'till three in the morning.00:04:23.465
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• TO WHICH ONE OF YOUR CONTEMPORARIES00:04:29.097
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• DO YOU FEEL THE CLOSEST AND WHERE WOULD YOU00:04:33.019
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• FORMALLY CLASS THEM?00:04:37.396
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• I find common ground with Pešat, he's really deep into the art00:04:43.821
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• so I enjoy talking to him about those things.00:04:48.315
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• It was no accident that Maňous presented us together in some magazine00:04:52.045
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• together with Ondra Maleček.00:04:56.453
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• I'd class them as expressive painters.00:05:00.133
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• The article in Revolver about us was titled something like00:05:04.726
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• "Possibilities of Contemporary Expression".00:05:08.806
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• But I guess it's the level where the expression has a function,00:05:12.853
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• not like the expression about which people think that it's just00:05:16.814
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• something thrown together on the canvas for its own sake.00:05:20.702
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• That isn't my case either and it's not really my thing.00:05:24.862
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• HOW DO YOU LOOK AT CRITICISM. IS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU?00:05:28.951
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• For years I had painted alone in the basement00:05:32.104
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• where nobody would see it.00:05:35.135
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• so I'm quite used to evaluating it myself.00:05:39.045
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• Of course when it gets to some exhibition I§m interested in people's opinions.00:05:45.272
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• From that one can tell whether it's immediate, or calculated,00:05:53.120
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• I think one can feel those things.00:06:02.000
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• But it's ultimately up to me to decide whether it's good or bad.00:06:06.785
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• Whether I, given a chance, will choose to present it, or not.00:06:13.720
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• If it's crap it should never even come out.00:06:18.489

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