Abstract
In 1950s and 1960s Czech artist Vladimír Boudník developed a set of substantially new printmaking methods that left a profound impact on a number of his contemporaries. Technique of structural printmaking has evolved into a phenomenon that now challenges the third generation of artists to search for unorthodox materials and innovative processes of printmaking.
In comparison to collagraphy, a related common term used worldwide, structural printmaking represents a more general category. The article clarifies the principle of structural printmaking and comments the most frequently used procedures.
It also deals with the story of Vladimír Boudník and the story of Czech structural graphic art from 1960s to the end of 20-th century (Čestmír Janošek, Aleš Veselý, Josef Hampl, Oldřich Hamera, Lubomír Přibyl, Eduard Ovčáček, Jaroslav Šerých, Dana Puchnarová, Jan Hladík, Jenny Hladíková, Alena Kučerová, Romana Rotterová). Finally it comments the present-day perspective of Czech structural printmaking (Miloslav Polcar, Ondřej Michálek Lenka Vilhelmová, Šimon Brejcha, Eva Čapková, Robin Kaloč).