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The Tree in Art
The South Bohemian Gallery, České Budějovice, Hluboká nad Vltavou, 2024
https://www.ajg.cz/belvedere-na-hluboke-let-it-grow-again/en.html
Does the tree play an important role in the cultural history of mankind? It certainly does. The tree resembles us in many aspects; we can easily relate to it and harmonise with it. We often bestow our human qualities, feelings, and motives on it or compare ourselves to it. This is materialised in paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and architecture, which provide evidence of the extent to which man identifies himself with the shapes of nature and the extent to which he becomes its face. The entire history of the human–tree relationship is anchored in art. The tree should thus be understood as an impulse to the symbolical interpretation of nature and as a continuous inspiration of new forms.
