Miloslav Pluháček

Miloslav Pluháček

Modern Nazis disguised as liberals have stolen the sun and the future from the people. Instead, they have given Europe fascism with a red star on its forehead. Artists used to react to dictatorship with resistance. Today, they bend their backs or directly serve the regime. The few individuals who refused to live in lies and mutilated truth are ostracized and professionally and socially liquidated. One of those who did not allow themselves to be intimidated or broken is the painter, sculptor, graphic artist, creator of reliquaries, monstrances and tabernacles, occasional writer and musician Miloslav Pluháček. (*1953). A vagabond by his fate, a thief of female beauty, an enfant terrible of art and of his time, included in the list of “incorrect” artists for his nonconformity. This makes his work unexhibitable, de facto buried alive.

He created his first painting under the guidance of Othon Coubine, but he was influenced both personally and artistically by the painter Josef Zemánek, a butterfly breeder, fool and persona non gratta, who was the creator of a carefully secret work comparable to the best that was created in post-war Europe. Fragments of Zemánek's life are captured in the short story book BLUES FOR A FUNERAL HORSE.

Miloslav Pluháček is often compared to Ned Ordrum or Lucian Freud for his artistic expression. Art historian Dr. Danielle de Gresse disagrees with this classification and points out the artistic and life similarities between Miloslav Pluháček and the painter Robert Lenkiewicz. Miloslav Pluháček is endowed with an extraordinary creative talent, as well as an extraordinary ability to complicate his life with his work. (Dr. Gresse)

De Gresse was the first to use the term BLUES ART for this type of art - art in the rhythm of the human heart, turned inward, thoughtful, often with a touch of sadness or, conversely, full of irony and a smile of petty bourgeoisie and hypocrisy.

On a similar basis, the artist creates reliquaries. The counterbalance to paintings and shrines are tabernacles, artifacts that entertain and cause laughter until we realize that we are laughing at ourselves. The author's musical compositions and lyrics are in the same spirit of quiet blues.

Miloslav Pluháček is a seeker of the magic formula that opens the door to art. He has become an eternal wanderer from better to worse and from nowhere to nowhere, ready at any time to turn off the light, lock the door and leave. Whatever does not fit on the cart he pulls behind him, he destroys. (Dr. Gresse)

Text by Dr. Ekaterina Iragi

Quotations are taken from the study by Dr. Danielly de Gresse MILOSLAV PLUHÁČEK - ENFANT TERRIBLE

Translated and edited by Dr. Dana Dolníčková