Salvador Dalí / Alfons Mucha / Andy Warhol

Gallery of Modern Art located in the heart of Prague. A three storey building on the Old Town Square houses three permanent exhibitions of three famous artists on display. Central Gallery is proud to show you works of Salvador Dalí, Alphonse Mucha and Andy Warhol. There is not a specific reason to have these three names under one roof but each artist has some connection to Czech history and you will learn about it while visiting!

• Salvador Dalí was one of the most iconic painters of the 20th century, with a range of imaginative, striking and surrealist work. His repertoire was influenced by classical Renaissance masters but he also enjoyed painting with a new avant-garde approach. As well as painting, he became involved in film, sculpture and photography. Dali had a habit of doing eccentric things which polarised opinions. His eccentric manner was a reflection of his art and vice versa. The fact that he was always in the limelight made his paintings more famous. He could also display a supreme confidence.
• Alphonse Mucha was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters, particularly that of Sarah Bernhardt who made him famous. After this success, he became the face of Art Nouveau movement and personal graphic designer of Sarah's theatre posters. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs which were among the best-known images of the period. Despite his successes, he returns to Czechoslovakia where he pays homage to Bohemian soul in his life work "The Slav Epic", series of large-format canvases on which he worked for almost eighteen years.
• Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s and span a variety of media including painting, silkscreening, photography, film and sculpture. His New York studio "The Factory" became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities. In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview Magazine.

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