MILAN GRYGAR

Milan Grygar was born on October 24, 1926 in Zvolen (SK). In the years 1942–1943 he studied at the school of arts and crafts in Brno. After his university education, he moved to Prague in 1945, to the College of Applied Arts, where he studied in the studio of Josef Novák (1945–1948) and then with Emil Filla (1948–1950).

Milan Grygar's work is primarily characterized by an original approach to the concept of the relationship between image, sound and space. After the initial period of abstract form, Grygar focused on the relationship between drawing and sound, which he recorded while creating. In Grygar's work, visual and musical expression are gradually equalized, but it is never an analogy between them, but a "natural relationship given by the unity of movement in time". From the end of the 1960s, he devoted himself mainly to graphic scores, which he followed up with a cycle of "tactile drawings". Since the 1990s, Grygar has focused on the so-called Antiphons, which depict a visual transcription of a sound event. White, black and red play a prominent role in his work. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he participated in the creation of many well-known movie posters. In 2013, he received the Award of the Ministry of Culture for his contribution in the field of visual arts.