Josef Moravec is a Czech paleoartist and painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 currently living in the USA. He specialises in paintings of dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s and has studied fossils for over 35 years to gain the necessary knowledge about them.

Moravec was born in the former Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 and later moved to the United states, where he still lives and works. He is one of successors to the famous Zdeněk Burian

Zdenek Burian

Zdeněk Michael František Burian was a Czech painter and book illustrator whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions during a remarkable career spanning five decades...

. Along with another Czech paleoartist, Jan Sovák

Jan Sovák

Jan Sovák is a Czech paleoartist and renowned painter currently living in Canada . He has done many paintings for various scientists including paleontologist Phil Currie. Many of his paintings depict dinosaurs and other popular primeval organisms.Sovák was born in former Czechoslovakia and moved...

, Moravec continues in the famous tradition of Czech paleoart.

External links

• http://www.wildprehistory.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=76