Romana Rotterová

As a child, she had spent a lot of time with her father in his atelier in Malá Strana, where she observed his work, learned the base of visual art, and later on studied sculpture.

While working as a commercial artist in her late teens and early twenties, she met Vratislav Jan Žižka [cs], who introduced her to the art of printmaking and she has created her first prints in his studio.

The graphic work from the mid-1960s still reflects the creative impulses of the informal in the emphasis on surface structures and interprets real landscapes or their material elements in the form of simplified symbols (Blue Cloud 1966).

Reality is replaced by artistic signs, the effect is achieved by creating tension between reduced shapes, depth and density of lines and contrasts of bright surfaces and shadows.

The names of the graphic sheets also correspond to this – from primal reflections of the real world using color accents (Old sun 1965, Little red crate 1968) to abstract feelings expressed only by contrasts of black and white (Hesitation 1968, Concentration 1968).