Jaroslav Róna: Apocalypses and Visions

Entering Jaroslav Róna’s imaginary world and discovering his inner artistic dreams will help us understand the artist’s goals and decipher the wide repertoire of motifs in his works. In his works, Róna intentionally reflects the social, cultural and political context and addresses to key artistic personalities, contemporary trends and tendencies as well as the current art scene. His paintings can be seen as critical inquiry leading to an existential reflection on the meaning and purpose of human life and social transformations. They are the product of his varied life experience, inexhaustible creative imagination, distinctive style and technical and expressive virtuosity. His pictorial compositions, apocalypses and visions are distinguished by extraordinary insistence, reminding us of potential and actual problems of our world, which may result in the extinction of human civilization.