Between 1925 and 1928, Jindřich Štyrský lived with Toyen in Paris, where they founded their own branch of Surrealism, called Artificialism. With this, they sought to bridge the gap between the Poetism they had come to know in the Devětsil, and Surrealism, the boundary between reality and abstraction. The painting Aquarium is one of the characteristic manifestations of this new artistic movement, which was strongly influenced by contemporary poetry.
PEN, 1923
GIRL / ABSTRACT
COMPOSITION, 1923–1924
AQUARIUM, 1927
PALM FROND, 1931
MAN AND WOMAN, 1934
b. 1899 in Dolní Čermná near Kyšperk, Kingdom of Bohemia
d. 1942 in Prague