Jindrich styrsky biography template

With his friend Toyen, whom he met in 1922, Styrsky was first a member of the Devetsil group that encompassed several avant-garde trend.  Through the group’s events, and the review Red, it kept the Czech public informed on the state of modern thought.  In Red Styrsky defended a conception of painting that he called “artificialism,” later viewing it as the link between cubism and surrealism: “Artificialist painting triggers poetic emotions that are not merely optical, and excites a sensibility not merely visual.  It diverts the viewer from the closed circle of his usual imagination, destroying the mechanism and system of continuous images.”  In Paris, in 1927, he was given an exhibition with a catalog prefaced by Philippe Soupault.  In 1933, along with other members of Devetsil, Styrsky was a cofounder of the Czech surrealist group, for which he illustrated the review Surrealismus.  He attracted notice with his series of colored co