Ilustrace v díle Petra Nikla, Martina Velíška a Františka Skály ml.

Abstract

Doufejme, ze se prostrednictvim teto studie povedlo vystizne a dostatecne obsahlym zpusobem charakterizovat ilustratorske dilo Petra Nikla, Martina Veliska i Frantiska Skaly mI., prestoze by nektere rozsahlejsi soubory, kterYch jsme se zde pouze a doslova okrajove dotkli (napr. serie Skalovych deniku), zaslouzily dukladnejsi zpracovani (pokud by vsak, vzhledem k jejich silne osobnimu razu, byla take vule ze strany samotneho umelce). Urcitym pojitkem, mezi jinak pomerne odlisnou a spise nekonvencni tvorbou techto sveraznych individualit, byla snaha rozvrhnout praci do m zakladnich kapitol, ktere nam snad pomohly lepe pochopit, ze jejich ilustratorske pociny nesouvisi pouze s obrazovYm doprovodem klasickych textu (v takovem smyslu, jak je doposud tradicni ilustrace stale vnimana), ale ze diky rozmanitym zajmum vYtvarniku v podobnych oblastech kulturniho tvoreni (tj. hudby, divadla ci filmu), vznikaji jejich na vysost zajimave kresebne ci ilustratorske experimenty. I kdyz je nutne reflektovat rovnez fakt, ze pristup kazdeho z umelcu je zcela rozdilny, tj., ze napr. Petr Nikl ci Frantisek Skala mohou bYt povazovani do urcite miry take za hudebniky, kdezto vztah Martina Veliska a jeho vYtvarnych navrhu pro kapelu UZ jsme doma je v tomto smyslu spise pasivni, je nezbytne vnimat skrze jejich ilustrace ne pouze...

Petr Nikl and Martin Velfsek began to illustrate books as Frantisek Skala Jr. did during the eighties or nineties of the 20 th century. But the illustration itself made and still makes only a small (but meaningful) part among their extensive artistic activities. However, their generally nonconformal relation to arts brings into whole illustration new and surprising conceptions and breaks standard and classical models of treatment of literary works. The character of artistic realizations is very intimate, inly reserved and painterly in the case of Petr Nikl, which is distinctly confirmed by his illustrations of world-famous melancholy fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. Also VeHsek's conception of the classical Czech novel Babicka, which was written by Bozena Nemcova, represents, for its expressivity and combination of modem contemporary elements with quite different prinCiples of the text, the extraordinary individual experiment. Alhough Skala illustrates some books in absolutely classical style, he is able to react excellently and sensibly on contents of the books, thanks to the change of his drawing. He has used an interesting combination of photography with text and Velfsek has illustrated with subtle humour several delightful books. Especially in the illustrations, which are related to their own text, there is...