František Drtikol worked between the turn of the century and the mid-Thirties. His lyrical, evanescent nudes, use of non-light, shadows and evocations have inspired and conditioned generations of photographers up to our day.
Drtikol is fascinated by the female body and sees in it the origin of beauty, of thought, of the soul. He uses the female figure with artfully arranged forms and movements to express the sentimental pathos of expressions (which later disappeared in his work) and virtuoso composition. Woman becomes an obsessive vision, bearer of good and evil, saint and virgin, demon and femme fatale.
František Drtikol worked between the turn of the century and the mid-Thirties. His lyrical, evanescent nudes, use of non-light, shadows and evocations have inspired and conditioned generations of photographers up to our day.
Drtikol is fascinated by the female body and sees in it the origin of beauty, of thought, of the soul. He uses the female figure with artfully arranged forms and movements to express the sentimental pathos of expressions (which later disappeared in his work) and virtuoso composition. Woman becomes an obsessive vision, bearer of good and evil, saint and virgin, demon and femme fatale.