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The documentary “Joza Uprka – Colours and Songs” tells us about the life and art of the Moravian painter Joza Uprka. His art is based on the traditions of the national style and clearly belongs to the turn of the 19th and 20th century. In the late 19th century he brought new life to his paintings with the Impressionist technique. The depicted scenes showing life in the Moravian and Slovak country, presented in a style between the Romantic and Art Nouveau decorativism, have also become of ethnographical importance. The girls wearing the folk costume of Moravian Slovakia who form the central motif of one of his most famous paintings “The St. Anthony Fair”, also remained the dominating motif in his work till the end of Uprka’s life.The narrated life story of this strikingly characteristic painter is interspersed with a series of Moravian folk songs. In many cases their texts are directly connected to Uprka’s paintings and in the documentary film they are mixed into identical live situations in provincial life.
SD | 37´ | © 2002
director(s): Petr Ryšavý
producer(s): Czech Television, Agency Mars
scriptwriter(s): Magdalena Můčková-Uprková
director of photography: Vladimír Křepelka
rights available: TV, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English