Peter Bartoš
Artistic Beginnings and Education Peter Bartoš is a Slovak conceptual artist born in Prague, Czech Republic. His formal training began at a secondary school of applied arts in Bratislava, where he studied in the graphics department. He continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, studying in the painting studio under professors Ján Želibský and Peter Matejka. Following this, he pursued postgraduate studies from 1966 to 1969 under doc. Ján Matejka. Since 1967, Bartoš has exhibited both individually and in group settings, both domestically and abroad. During the late 1960s…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Peter Bartoš's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.