Jaroslav Malátek (13 March 1923, Choceň – 12 December 2014, Ústí nad Orlicí) was a Czech painter. He was a prominent representative of Czech painting from the turn of the century, a legacy of French cubism, reaching to the Renaissance in the 15th and 16th century, when painters attempted to capture the fascinating element of graphical representation, i.e. space, the third dimension, and depth. In his work, the three-dimensionality of objects was replaced by the non-perspective of spaciousness, containing a meaning. This led to the discovery of a new art called “Spatial Metaphors“.