Sitting outside under a big tree
Harant Jan
Sitting outside under a big tree, 2025
70 x 90 cm
acrylic on canvas
This is a restaurant located in the park. They always let me store my canvases there overnight for safekeeping. They make good tea there. I always used to walk past this restaurant in the snowy atmosphere of winter. This scene, however, is from the summer of 2025.
This past summer, I often came here to draw preparatory sketches from a viewpoint where the café was directly opposite me. I did not draw it from the side, nor from any perspective angle. I drew it as a house from the front, in the sense that one moves from left to right.
I maintained a yellow and grey color scheme. I did not include green, which would dominate these two colors, even though there was greenery on the ground in the foreground. I preserved colors that create a calm impression for this composition. I also used blue on one folded parasol. J. H.
About the artist
Born:
1984, Frydlant, Czech Republic
Education:
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Šervůd, Moon Gallery, Liberec
2021 Náhlé probuzení, ViaArt Gallery, Praha
2020 Udrž mě tam, kde je světlo, Champagneria, Praha, CZ
2017 Za pátou kolonou v Bohnicích, Galerie Goethe, Mariánské Lázně, CZ
2017 Baumax X Bohnice X AVU, Galerie Pod Palmovkou, Praha, CZ
2016 Pul Oneself Together, Kolona 5 Club, Prague, CZ
2015 Miscomprehension and Empathy, Artamira Gallery, Prague, CZ
2014 Jan Harant - Paintings, Studio Alta, Prague, CZ
2011 We're Leaving the World Behind Us, We're learning to Fly, Liberec Library, CZ
2009 Hop or Trop, U rytire Gallery, Liberec, CZ
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 Místa, Galerie Via Art, Prague, CZ
2024 YRA Art Prague, Clam - Gallasův palác, Prague, CZ
2024 Spřízněni volbou, Galerie Portheimka, Prague, CZ
2023 YRA Art Prague, Clam - Gallasův palác, Prague, CZ
2022 YRA Art Prague, Hrzánský palác, Prague, CZ
2021 Subjektivně zakusit, Eli Gallery, Liberec, CZ
2020 Art Prague, Young Real Art, Praha, CZ
2019 Malba III, Galerie Vltavín, Praha, CZ
2018 Internal Dialogue, MKD, Mělník, CZ
2018 CZAS, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Jelenia Góra (Poland))
2016 Vanity Fair - Final Show of the University of Arts in Prague, National Gallery in Prague, CZ
2014 Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung, České centrum, Berlín, GE
2014 I Walked Past an Apple Tree, Nakladove nadrazi Zizkov, Prague, CZ
2014 In a Half, Via Art Gallery, Prague, CZ
2013 Winter Compost, ArtAtak Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 Twelve Years of the Painting Studio of doc. Michael Rittstein, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Wienna, AU
2014 Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung, Czech Centre, Berlin, DE
