The end of the fifties in Czechoslovakia. After the trial and executions of intellectuals such as Záviš Kalandra, after the currency collapse, after the state’s complete vassalage to the cruel and despotic regime to the East, distress, greyness and enmity arose everywhere. At that time, even born recluses began to gather in groups simply to have someone to talk to. Today, artists such as Adriena Šimotová, Václav Boštík and Stanislav Kolíbal are usually considered independently, but it was they who founded the group UB 12 together with other artists[1] in the early 1960s and carefully formulated a joint artistic statement. They gathered around the cultivated scholar and talented painter Václav Bartovský, who was a generation older, but who befriended them