Female artistic celebrities in Czech creative culture in the 50's and 60's of the 20th century

The era of the years 1948 - 1968 in Czechoslovakia was full of historical reversions and events. Also sociocultural scene passed in this period through important changes. From the repressions of the fifties through "the golden sixties" to the "normalisation" of the seventies; all in the shadow of communist totality. Beside the official art under the dictate of socialist realism the antinomic movements occured here; connecting at prewar modern and avantgarde at the beginning. After enforcing the abandoning of the interdict of art groups, the artists began to associate themselves to different groups, based on friendship or collective artistic opinions. Many of these artists (as Václav Boštík, Stanislav Kolíbal, Adriena Šimotová, Eva Kmentová, Karel Malich, Karel Nepraš) are considered as ones of the most outstanding artistic personalities of the Czech art of the second half of 20th century. A specific phenomenon in art of the fifties and sixties was the onset of expressive women artists - both in Europe and America and Czech lands. On the Czech scene these artists were mostly associated in art groups, but several authors who created independently on these groups have appeared. The main part of this work are the portraits of these women artists and an attempt to find some common themes and artistic activities..