Harry Jelinek - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

Harry Jelineck, in his artistic practice, begins with phenomenal reality but completely transfigures it through his gesture. What might be a landscape element still appears in the painting with some trace of its appearance, but the painter's gesture overturns everything, transforming sensitive nature into pure sensibility. Thus, forms are lost in the gestural interpretation of reality, which points directly toward the informal and the material.

Harry Jelineck was an artist of Czech origin, born in Vlašim in 1905 and died in Guarene d'Alba, Italy, in 1986. His work is distinguished by an instinctive interpretation of reality that even goes beyond Expressionism to look towards Informal Art.

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