Alpy in vranním sluníčky 8
Ateliér Jana Híska plný maleb, grafiky a čeho ješte? Rychlé šípy v malé galerii města Prahy 1 plus starosta Filip Dvořák (sec?). Chodov nákupní centrum a lesní zvěř s pastelkou.
- "Alps Im Der Morning Sunschöne"00:00:03.130
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- With the format so large one can sink into it,00:00:14.963
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- dive in, like into a pond,00:00:18.772
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- surrounded by those creatures that are splashing around.00:00:22.541
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- This here is a "forestine", a forest creture.00:00:28.759
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- I began here in the middle and when I had finished00:00:33.406
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- all these forest flowers, I started doing a different structure00:00:37.847
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- in a different spot, putting a spell over it,00:00:41.606
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- and then added more dark structures00:00:45.767
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- resemblant of forest flowers and creatures, creating a different spell.00:00:49.773
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- And added to that are thousands of tiny little angels,00:00:54.688
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- creatures and forest animals, flying around, drawing you in,00:00:59.154
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- telling you something... It is kind of a rustle, this picture.00:01:03.554
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- The bigger it is, the more you get drawn in.00:01:14.819
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- But I also do very small things, miniatures, even,00:01:18.995
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- that nobody can see, almost, people need a magnifying glass00:01:22.660
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- just in order to see them. I don't need one myself, yet.00:01:26.675
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- I draw outdoors when I travel, but the drawings are different from the paintings.00:01:35.405
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- They are minute initiations that come to me as I sit before a cliff, waves, ...00:01:41.098
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- then suddenly, without looking, I do a watercolour, for instance.00:01:45.427
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- And it is something completely different, touch of the landscape.00:01:50.322
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- The moment. I have hundreds of such drawings.00:01:55.482
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- So far, I have only exhibited a few.00:02:00.188
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- The rest I have kept, like my childhood pictures.00:02:03.010
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- - "Otto, hello, that picture we did has dried, you should come,00:02:09.044
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- take a look... I'm looking at it now...00:02:13.813
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- Happy birthday, too. I'll come down tomorrow,00:02:17.943
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- bring you something... can't wait... Bye"00:02:22.764
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- Prague 1, regrettably, cannot afford a more grandiose exhibition00:02:47.573
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- that Rychlé šípy and Jaroslav Foglar would surely deserve.00:02:52.496
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- This location was chosen deliberately, because this is one of the two places00:02:57.226
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- within Prague 1 where perhaps lay the legendary Stínadla.00:03:01.947
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- The proof that this - according to recent investigations - more favoured spot,00:03:06.520
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- is the location of Foglar's stories, could be the map,00:03:10.681
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- which was used for one of the boys' games.00:03:15.058
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- There, right near the St. Anne's monastery, is the white spot,00:03:20.700
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- with the description "Stínadla" in brackets.00:03:25.757
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- The map, of course, can be viewed in detail as part of this exhibition,00:03:31.874
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- When I was little, I not only read Rychlé šípy all the time,00:03:54.221
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- but I also lived through those stories, growing up near the second monastery,00:03:59.380
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- that of St. Anežka, where the National Gallery resided,00:04:04.517
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- but in times of Jaroslav Foglar, the monastery had been in ruin,00:04:09.399
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- surrounded by the old tenament houses with those back alleys00:04:14.703
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- and narrow streats that feature in his stories.00:04:19.712
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- As for the name, Stínadla (stín - shadow), one of the theories is that00:04:25.863
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- it was derived from the long shadows cast along the narrow streets,00:04:31.488
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- the phenomenon so often featuring in the stories of Jaroslav Foglar...00:04:36.189