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.
