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HIS inspiration of our peasant art, the true flower of the soil of Bohemia, speaks to us from all the real, sincere art of Czech masters. It speaks through different technic, through different medium. Manes, Hynais, Zenisek, Ales, Mucha, Uprka, are a few representative names of modern Czech art. The Slavonic element in these masters is unmistakable.

The memory of the rich flower decoration of Moravian cottages is so strong in Mucha that ornament becomes in his art an end in itself. In his decorative work "Our Father" he prays through exuberant design. It is not so much the depth of his inventions as the decorativeness of his 52