Pavel Machotka - Montone, Italy

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Pavel Machotka, born in Prague and educated in the U.S., trained as a landscape painter under Terry St. John, who had revived the plein air tradition in California.  He has painted the landscapes of northern California, southern France, Tuscany and Umbria, and in the mid ‘nineties turned increasingly to the figure. He is also a writer on the psychology of art and a specialist in the works of Cézanne.