Julie Kopová↓

About the work

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The diploma thesis submitted by Julie Kopová addresses the subject of infinity – the quantity of immeasurable value, which is greater than all possible quantities of the same category and ranges to both sides of the numerical spectrum, i. e. ∞ / +∞. The subject was later nailed down to the idea of infinity, and it therefore has not become its specific expression. An utmost abstract subject serves the artist to explore the contrasts between the maximum and minimum, the fullness and emptiness on both individual and social levels. Kopová conceived her painting series as a free visual metaphor on a given universal theme, which should work as her very subjective insight into this issue.

We live in an era when the differences between various contrasts multiply and, simultaneously, the intersections of the intertwining of everything gradually condense. The artist’s aim was to create an abstract world full of movement and changes in contrast with calm and stillness. Above all, she wanted to visualize the regrouping and moving positions and the qualities of the contemporary world, whilst the whole remains unchanged. She created a whole that sometimes seems chaotic but works in harmony if pulled together. She tried to express an existence developing on the basis of cyclical changes, which also occurred in the process of painting, relating to another whole in this unity. The principle of unity in Kopová’s works results in both small and large microcosms, thus causing ever-differentiation and expansion.

The artist tried to intuitively and subconsciously incorporate societal archetypes, which are ubiquitous, into the given subject that interweaves entire human existence and forms its integral part. However, she did not want to incorporate any specific elements of everyday life which would disrupt the universal nature of the final expression.