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Pavel Ryška
Jiří Havlíček, Pavel Ryška
The name Pérák was derived from a general word for a spring and the suffix -ák, often used to form an informal name. The name was motivated by his significant feature, i.e. the springs- steal springs on his feet that helped this cartoon character overcome the most difficult of obstacles. Traces of the legendary phantom, who first appeared in 1946, have been apparent in the Czech visual culture for more than seventy years.
Miroslav Barták
Miroslav Barták(*1938) graduated from a naval academy and spent a large part of the sixties on business ships as an engineer. When he could draw in his spare time, he wasn’t so much interested in the motives of exotic lands or the peculiar physiognomy of their inhabitants. He didn’t aspire to prove his skills of capturing the outside world; he was rather interested in discovering what he could tell about it in the lines of his drawings. Quite soon he found the ideal actor for his meticulously directed scenes: a male figure, whose crucial feature was an absent mouth.
Jiří Havlíček, Pavel Ryška
We are used to reading lines of a drawing similarly to how we read physical features of a human face. From those several lines and points we manage to distinguish not only personality but also guess the state of mind it currently finds itself in. Drawn characters has become a common part of our visual environment. In them we will read testimonies about our traits and our acts that are, thanks to the character itself, freed from the weight of fatal determination.