With these words, the poet and contemporary Milan Rúfus concluded his opening speech at the Young Slovak Art exhibition in early 1957, anticipating formation of the Mikuláš Galanda Group at the first joint exhibition in December of that year in Žilina.
Let us go back twenty years and recall the words of Mikuláš Galanda at the opening of his exhibition in Prostějov in 1937: "An artist usually has a completely different relationship to his paintings than that of the audience or art critics.
Paintings are his love, and he sends them out into the world like his children – wondering if they will endure or fade away in the daily bustle of life. One should also bear in mind that a painting feels completely different in a studio than it does at an exhibition. Typically, it loses intimacy and atmosphere.
