The angel puts in embarrassment he torso

Mediums: oil, canvas, collage.
Location: The Collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France).

Like other Surrealists, Styrsky used images from the famous paintings of the masters of the Renaissance. The theme was already developed earlier in the film “Angel Heurtebis” (1926), inspired by the poem of the same name by Jean Cocteau, who was an idol of Czech avant-garde artists. In this large-format work, the angel pursues the torso of a man, thus confusing him. The artist expressed the embarrassment of a man trying to fly away through small multi-coloured spots that covered his naked body. The Czech master was a pioneer in the art of collage not only in his country. At the exhibition in the center of Georges-Pompidou, the concept of which was to present a pair of artists (in this case, Styrsky and Toyen), apart from this work, they exhibited the painting in mixed media “William Tell”.