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'''Milan Dobeš''' (1929, Přerov) is a constructivist and kinetic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Bratislava]].  
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'''Milan Dobeš''' (1929, Přerov) is a Slovak artist and pioneer of [[kinetic art]] in the former Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Bratislava]]. He turned away from the imposed call for art to fit into the conventions of socio-realism and began exploring expressionism instead, then cubism, which ultimately led him to constructivism and experimentation with optical illusions. He created paintings, as well as sculptures and optical-kinetic objects. Some of his works were made to improve the public spaces of cities like Bratislava or Osaka. In 1971, he also spent a year touring across the United States with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, putting together an optical-kinetic arrangement to their compositions. He is among the most well-known names in Czechoslovakian art. [http://transatlantic.artmuseum.pl/en/artist/milan-dobes (Source)]
  
Dobeš created dynamic constructivist works, in parallel with the international movement of this tendency by exponents such as [[Julio Le Parc|Le Parc]], [[François Morellet|Morellet]] and [[Jesús Rafael Soto|Soto]]; took part in formative international exhibitions such as ''[[Kunst-Licht-Kunst]]'' (Eindhoven, 1966), ''Konstruktive Tendenzen'' (Nürnberg, 1968) and ''[[New Tendencies#Tendencije_5_-_Tendencies_5.2C_1973|New Tendencies 5]]'' (1973), as well as the ''Documenta 4'' exhibition in Kassel; and which did not go unnoticed by the leading critics and theorists of the day (those writing on Dobeš's work include F. Popper, U. Kultermann and O. Bihalji-Merin).
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Dobeš took part in international exhibitions such as ''[[Kunst-Licht-Kunst]]'' (Eindhoven, 1966), ''Konstruktive Tendenzen'' (Nürnberg, 1968) and ''[[New Tendencies#Tendencije_5_-_Tendencies_5.2C_1973|New Tendencies 5]]'' (1973), as well as the ''Documenta 4'' exhibition in Kassel; and which did not go unnoticed by the leading critics and theorists of the day (those writing on Dobeš's work include F. Popper, U. Kultermann and O. Bihalji-Merin).  
 
 
In 1971, Dobeš toured the United States with his lumino-dynamic programme accompanying American Wind Symphony Orchestra performances of T. Mayazumi and Krzysztof Penderecki.
 
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
 
* [[Media:Dobes_Milan_1973_1994_Svetlo_ako_vytvarny_material.pdf|"Svetlo ako výtvarný materiál"]], 1973; repr. in ''Milan Dobeš'', ed. Jozef Ruttkay, Bratislava, 1994, pp 183-187. {{sk}}
 
* [[Media:Dobes_Milan_1973_1994_Svetlo_ako_vytvarny_material.pdf|"Svetlo ako výtvarný materiál"]], 1973; repr. in ''Milan Dobeš'', ed. Jozef Ruttkay, Bratislava, 1994, pp 183-187. {{sk}}
 
* [[Media:Dobes_Milan_1988_1994_Dynamicky_konstruktivizmus.pdf|"Dynamický konštruktivizmus"]], Bratislava, 1988; repr. in ''Milan Dobeš'', ed. Jozef Ruttkay, Bratislava, 1994, pp 193-194. {{sk}}
 
* [[Media:Dobes_Milan_1988_1994_Dynamicky_konstruktivizmus.pdf|"Dynamický konštruktivizmus"]], Bratislava, 1988; repr. in ''Milan Dobeš'', ed. Jozef Ruttkay, Bratislava, 1994, pp 193-194. {{sk}}
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==Literature==
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* Miroslava Maurery, ''[https://is.muni.cz/th/wtfe3/ Milan Dobeš: medzi pohybom a svetlom]'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 96 pp. Master's thesis. {{sk}}
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Latest revision as of 17:59, 2 March 2022

Milan Dobeš (1929, Přerov) is a Slovak artist and pioneer of kinetic art in the former Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. He turned away from the imposed call for art to fit into the conventions of socio-realism and began exploring expressionism instead, then cubism, which ultimately led him to constructivism and experimentation with optical illusions. He created paintings, as well as sculptures and optical-kinetic objects. Some of his works were made to improve the public spaces of cities like Bratislava or Osaka. In 1971, he also spent a year touring across the United States with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, putting together an optical-kinetic arrangement to their compositions. He is among the most well-known names in Czechoslovakian art. (Source)

Dobeš took part in international exhibitions such as Kunst-Licht-Kunst (Eindhoven, 1966), Konstruktive Tendenzen (Nürnberg, 1968) and New Tendencies 5 (1973), as well as the Documenta 4 exhibition in Kassel; and which did not go unnoticed by the leading critics and theorists of the day (those writing on Dobeš's work include F. Popper, U. Kultermann and O. Bihalji-Merin).

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