Čekání na Vánoce (Waiting for Christmas)

Description

The title of this painting evokes in most people an atmosphere of bliss, joy and happiness. But if you look more closely, existential horror awaits you. It is sad that sacrifice has become commonplace – the seller-executioners, the invisible buyers, and the carp victims themselves, gazing wearily with a human gaze, as if offering no objections. The composition of the cutting board, knives, and gloved hands, the unfinished appearance of some objects, and the fully vivid coloration only intensify the massacrality. Thousands of years of religiosity have changed nothing in t