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Painting – that´s what interested me in the age of 8 years the most. I painted funerals and above-board, I looked forward to every funeral of any citizen of Plzeň. The whole ceremony was very touching for me though I did not understand much of the pastor ´s speech above the coffin. I always longed for providing comfort to the mourners. And if there was a longer time without any funerals, I found a run-over cat or a frozen crow and I prepared their last ceremonial journey.

My parents thought by that time that I was not normal. So no wonder, that I started my painting career with painting of a funeral. It was oil on canvas and it seemed to me that the picture got quite nice. Behind the coffin, many crying women and children were following and I stood at the graveyard wall and played flugelhorn. My mother stroke my head for my creation and within some days, she brought me a book with reproductions of famous painters, which I copied in some moths. The most succeeded ones were hanging for a long time on the wall in my mother´s bedroom. Shortly, I started to think about painting seriously. I travelled every Sunday with a cardboard and colors out into the nature. I imagined I was a famous landscape painter.

Against the wind, First Kiss - these are names of the paintings by Karel Gott. The singer catches in the oil paintings his feelings: “In the evening I sit down in front of the canvas and until the next morning, my hands call up a picture. Yes, I paint my sorrow, which oppress my soul. The paintings are mirrors of my character,” Karel Gott says and he tells about what he would like to represent by his paintings. And the artistic psychologist Dr. Martin Schuster provides his expressions to five of the paintings – without knowing that the author is Karel Gott.

Paintings by Karel Gott belong in the frame of the works of painting singers or actors to those better succeeded. They are quite good created in the handcraft, they seem sincere and they do not try to reach big gestures. But on the other hand, they are considered and in a wrong way moved to the stream of the current art by the numerous audiences and unfortunately also by some gallery leaders. This damages both Karel Gott and the good taste.