Soft Vision

The paintings of the “Soft Vision” series are produced by superimposing templates and various patterns onto each other. We can find various narrative threads and meanings cross-fading in them. As a rule, they have a “fixed” composition, as well as clear-cut contours. Some of them make use of the maximum possible contrast of colours, as Havlín also uses silver and golden shades placed in contrast against the dark background. The result is a high level of “luminosity”. Combined with some measure of plasticity, i.e. a relief attributable to energetic brushstrokes, the luminosity creates the painting’s variability; in such cases, the illumination of the painting is crucial (as it greatly influences the perception of