Jindřich Procházka

“ His typical figures of humanity — old, grey-haired patriarchs, manly youths, or buxom young peasant women — are all in the daring rythmic colours of the Slav national costume. Uprka's canvasses rebelliously but triumphantly dance in light and colour; the artist lives and feels with the subjects of his paintings: work in the meadows and fields, village life, joys, feasts, dances, prayers. In his art there is nothing melancholy ”

“ It is not so much the depth of his inventions as the decorativeness of his compositions; he forgets all languages; he speaks to God and men only through decorativeness. Much is a true Slav, for in his work there is the essential Slavonic element, a half-savage, half-superhuman mysticism. In Mucha's art the cosmopolitan influences have strangely overgrown the original Slavonic idea; they develop in him a new, spontaneous, and rich decorative expression.
Perhaps the most representative of modern Czech or Slovak artists is Joza Uprka. ”

“ This protest of a suffering and martyred soul I give to human society in return for the artificial care with which she educated my heart to such a sensitiveness that, tremble under any emotion, and the sorrow of others feel above my own. The human Society took away from me even as a child the sweet egotism of nature, which is the child's happiness. ”

“ Bell, Johnson and Allbough, which allegedly called for the organization of an espionage network in CSR. Rude Pravo reports from the court proceedings that the activities of the defendants became well known, when Dr. Bell visited Prague in 1946 and openly admitted that all information gathered by his Czechoslovak colleagues would be passed on to the U.S. Government for appropriate action. ”

“ Prochazka was under fire of the prosecution, because he had spent the war years in the U.S.A., where he was active in the World Baptist Movement and had occasion to meet with its prominent members.
Specifically Dr. Prochazka was charged with having received and carried out orders by Dr. ”