Zdeněk Ozzy Chlumecký

My name is Zdeněk Chlumecký.I come from Pardubice, East Bohemia.I got into drawing as a little boy, around 8 years old. I first encountered the technique of painting with oil paints on canvas when I was 20 years old. It was then that I understood that it was exactly what I wanted to work and create with.More than 30 years have passed since then and canvas and oil have remained in my life. You could say that I can't live without painting anymore. In the early days, my great role model was the brilliant painter Salvador Dali whose perfect, sophisticated and absolutely fascinating technique of capturing the whole, but especially the detail, completely captivated me. I tried to paint in a surrealist-realist way and so paintings like Analytic Geometry, For a Friend, Point of View, Stairway to Heaven with Robert Plant and Chess were created.This period was then replaced by the painting technique WPAP (Wedha Pop Art Potrait), invented by Wedha Abdul Rasyid, a graphic artist from Pekalongan, in 1990. As a former printmaker, the combination of painting in oil on canvas and the use of geometric shapes with the use of colour contradictions, excited me. The final appearance of the transformed object is clear and resembles the original, making it easily recognizable. If the client's wish is to paint a famous person in music, film or politics, I use sources from the internet - Mr Google will find everything.However, when it comes to private portraits, I go back to the computer and have to create everything in a graphics program to prepare the background for the painting. This is followed by a few hours of work at the monitor before I can step up to the canvas again and start painting. Since there is still a piece of the artist in me that likes to work with proportions, transitions, shadows and contours, I add realistic elements to some of my paintings that closely correspond to the subject matter. I call this painting technique WPAP-R (Wedha Pop Art Potrait Realism).I also like to paint backdrops on wooden panels and wall paintings. Here I use acrylic paints. Nowadays I am almost only painting because it is a process that fulfills me and gives me meaning.