Among the young artists who in the mid-1970s began bringing new life to the Czech art scene there appeared the name of Vaclav Blaha. Following the series of changes that his highly original work underwent, Blaha became a leading personality not only of his own generation but also of the Czech scene as a whole. Focusing on the intimacy of intense private life, he recapitulated the most personal experiences and expressions, and raised questions about their validity and communicability, perhaps also searching for feelings of restfulness and the innermost security. It seems, though, that the world is pitiless and continually puts man at the mercy of the unforeseeable in order to test him. This theme of man tested by the world has always been a key one in Blaha's work.

For Blaha, the painting has remained a firm basis, whether in the form of a chequered bed cover, or as a barely legible written message covering the entire area of the work into which personal events are woven. This firm, almost rationally detached surface suddenly takes on its own life, however, imbued by the passionate modeling of paint structures. Vaclav Blaha's most recent paintings and drawings are dominated by great tension and excitement; in them, one can feel an impatience to make the next step, as well as fear at the possibility of missing out on something fundamental. Despite the fact that he has seemingly abandoned what could be termed as "the great theme of man", instead turning to purely personal and intimate experiences, the theme of man in the world, man in society has, on the contrary, returned to his work with even greater immediacy and intensity.