Nedovolené delení/Illicit Division
1992
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View on museum website →Medium
color drypoint and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 47 x 33 cm (18 1/2 x 13 in.) sheet: 59.5 x 42.3 cm (23 7/16 x 16 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gerald Cerny
Accession Number
2000.166.76
Art Historical Context
Ludmila Jandová'sNedovolené delen/Illicit Division (1992) is a striking color drypoint and aquatint, measuring 47 x 33 cm on a larger sheet. Created just three years after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, which ended decades of communist rule, the bilingual title hints at themes of forbidden division—perhaps echoing the era's political upheavals, including the impending Velvet Divorce that split the nation into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Donated to the National Gallery of Art by Gerald Cerny, this work exemplifies post-communist Czech graphic art's exploration of identity and ...