Mikolas Ales’ Interpretation o

Ales was born in Mirotice in 1852, and started drawing at a very young age. He became known as the “master of pen and ink,” and he was first noted for his drawings of the Czech countryside and of nature. He studied at the Art Academy in Prague and lived for a while in Italy before returning to the countryside of Bohemia. During the middle ages, life in the Czech countryside became dominated by Catholicism, which clashed with the old peasant ways - superstition and folk magic. (This is still true today.) Ales was commissioned by churches to create religious drawings for holy calendars, and after his work was through, Ales began to capture religion in his own work - but in a very dark way. In our stud

Today, Ales’ work is not very well known, except in his native Czech Republic. He is most noted for capturing “Czech life” - and this could represent many things, but above all, I think it is the clash between the pagan roots and the Christian influence, a clash that is still there today. I think that in the Decadent era, when religious truths were being questioned, Ales’ feelings were reflected in his work. Certainly, the darkest corners of the Decadence perhaps did not reach those high and lonely hills of Bohemia, but it still made its mark.

Another set of drawings, called God’s Trial, from 1900, first shows a man holding an axe holding down some papers - curiously, with the date 1695 drawn on it. The next picture shows a man surrounded by soldiers and a crowd - he is taken prisoner. My interpretation of this drawing is that the prisoner is Christian and will be put to death - hence God himself is on trial. This

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