Habaděj (Aplenty)

(paintings, 2002-2003)

The first color pencil drawing series signifies Stratil's endeavor for synthesis of his existing drawing experience, and effort to disperse rigidly his artistic expression. Based on a lyrical, poetic matrix he created possible relations of fairy-tale illustration, child drawing, and modern art (cubism, decoratively oriented postwar abstraction). With the Habadej cycle a new period of Stratil's work opened, which mediates the feeling of artistic freedom, the significance of fantasy and emotional communication with the work of art.