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Jirí Kolár

Artist

WA-00027965

PaintingConceptual Art

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None documented

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WikidataQ699793 ULAN500029754

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Dream/Reality/Dream

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3198
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About

Why this artist matters now

Jiří Kolár was a Czech artist born in 1914 who worked primarily in collage and assemblage, pioneering techniques that fragmented and reassembled printed matter, photographs, and found materials into densely layered compositions. Active from the postwar period onward, his practice engaged with themes of memory, cultural fragmentation, and the materiality of the image itself. His innovations in cut-and-paste methodology anticipated later conceptual approaches to appropriation and montage.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Movement

Conceptual Art

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Painting

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (6)

Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics

1983 · Lithograph

33 1/2 × 24 1/4" (85.1 × 61.6 cm)

Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

1972 · Screenprint on three sheets from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts

composition (.a): 13 7/8 x 24 7/8" (35.3 x 63.2cm); sheet (.a): 21 15/16 x 29 7/8" (55.8 x 75.9 cm); composition (.b): 24 13/16 x 9 1/2" (63.1 x 24.1cm); sheet (.b): 29 7/8 x 21 15/16" (75.9 x 55.8cm); composition (.c): 9 1/8 x 24 7/8" (23.2 x 63.2cm); sheet (.c): 21 15/16 x 29 7/8" (55.8 x 75.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Stinova (Mrs. Stein)

1960 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper

12 5/8 x 18" (32.1 x 45.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Poem r from Fluxshop

Book with cutout pages

overall (closed): 11 5/16 x 8 1/8 x 1/16" (28.7 x 20.7 x 0.2 cm)

Collage of cut and pasted paper (wood engraving cut in strips to form a college)

14 3/4 x 20 1/4" (37.4 x 51.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Artwork sources (1)

6 published of 12 catalogued · 8 with image

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6 publishedof 12 catalogued8 img

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Images

Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements1

Conceptual Art

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Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Dream/Reality/Dream

New York · 1977