Pavel Machotka
{{Short description|Czech-born American academic and painter (1936–2019)}}
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| birth_date = August 21, 1936
| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia
| death_date = March 18, 2019
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| education = University of Chicago
Harvard University
| employer = University of California, Santa Cruz
| occupation = Professor of Psychology, painter
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Pavel Machotka (August 21, 1936 - March 18, 2019) was a Czech-born American academic and painter. He was a professor of Psychology of Aesthetics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1970 to 1994. He was the author of several books, including two about French painter Paul Cézanne.
Early life
Machotka was born in 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.{{cite web |title=Professor Emeritus Pavel Machotka dies at 82 |url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/03/machotka-death.html |website=Newscenter |publisher=UC Santa Cruz |accessdate=April 23, 2019|date=March 23, 2019}} He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1948 to escape communist repression, following the communist coup d'état.{{cite news |last1=Jegalian |first1=Karin |title=Czech university honors local artist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/95426253/?terms=%22Pavel%2BMachotka%22 |accessdate=April 23, 2019 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=March 8, 1998|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}} Machotka attended college at the University of Chicago at 16, and he earned a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University.
Career
Machotka was a professor of Psychology of Aesthetics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1970 to 1994. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague in 1998.
Machotka (co-)authored several books about psychology and the arts, including two books about French painter Paul Cézanne. His research showed that Cézanne was a realist, and that Cubists had misunderstood his work.{{cite news |last1=Townsend |first1=Sylvia |title=UCSC Professor's Study. Misunderstanding of Artist Paul Cezanne Is Revealed. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/62875468/?terms=%22Pavel%2BMachotka%22 |accessdate=April 23, 2019 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=August 14, 1980|page=35|via=Newspapers.com}} In Cézanne: Landscape Into Art, Machotka juxtaposed modern-day pictures with paintings by Cézanne, as John Rewald and Erle Loran had previously done, but went further by emphasising Cezanne's realism.{{cite news |last=Sozanski |first=Edward J. |title=Sizing Up Cezanne |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/179289593 |accessdate=April 23, 2019 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=June 16, 1996|pages=Q1; Q9|via=Newspapers.com}}
Death
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Spiegel |first1=John |last2=Machotka |first2=Pavel |title=Messages of the Body |date=1974 |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |isbn=9780029304006|oclc=925720708}}
- {{cite book |last1=Machotka |first1=Pavel |title=The Nude: Perception and Personality |date=1979 |publisher=Irvington Wiley |location=New York |isbn=9780470264263|oclc=877037621}}
- {{cite book |last1=Machotka |first1=Pavel |last2=Spiegel |first2=John Paul |title=The Articulate Body |date=1982 |publisher=Irvington Publishers |location=New York |isbn=9780829002294|oclc=869195344}}
- {{cite book |last1=Machotka |first1=Pavel |title=Cézanne: Landscape Into Art |date=1996 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300067019|oclc=34558348}}
- {{cite book |last1=Machotka |first1=Pavel |last2=Felton |first2=Lori |title=Painting and Our Inner World: The Psychology of Image Making |date=2003 |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |location=New York |isbn=9780306474088|oclc=816123050}}
- {{cite book |last1=Machotka |first1=Pavel |title=Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind |date=2008 |publisher=Éditions Crès |location=Marseille |isbn=9782753700475 |oclc=926034870 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cezanneeyemind00pave }}
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Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters