Markéta Vaňková

As regards Markéta Vaňková, the concept of action painting needs to be taken literally. One of her more famous acts was throwing balloons filled with paint from the Nusle Bridge (55 metres at its highest point) onto a 10 x 8-metre canvas. This graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague is, besides painting, devoted to ceramics and is usually described as a multimedia artist.