Pavel Machotka

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. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1948 to escape communist repression, following the communist coup d'état. Machotka attended college at the University of Chicago at 16, 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 Cézanne's realism.

Machotka was also a painter in his own right.

Death Machotka died on March 18, 2019, at 82.

Selected works