![]() ![]() After years of neglect while Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule, the work of the Cubists was rediscovered towards the end of the 1970s, and Czech Cubism is now recognized as one of the century's most influential design movements. Many Cubist architects turned to applied art as a means of trying out their visions "in miniature", designing startling and vibrant furniture which is characterized by exaggerated angles, cut-off corners and sloping planes. ![]() Artistic form replaced construction, function and material as the most important factor in architectural design. Rejecting Otto Wagner and the Vienna school of rationalists, they sought to create a visionary architecture which animated matter with the creative spirit. Between 19 avant-garde architects in Prague, including Josef Gocar, Pavel Janak, Vlatislav Hofman and Josef Chochol, seized on this new aesthetics and made it their own, translating it into architecture. In Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, a dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque gave rise to a new artistic language - Cubism. ![]()
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