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The Sacred and the Beginnings of Cubism
Jahnová, Kateřina ; Lyčka, Milan (advisor) ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee) ; Vlček, Tomáš (referee)
This dissertation deals with the relationship between the sacred and the cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Through the analysis of images, it shows how the sacred is present in the main inspirational sources of Cubism, i.e., in the work of Paul Cézanne and in primitive art, and how it manifests itself in the early and later stages of Cubism. It also points out the affinity between Husserl's phenomenology and Cubism, which is manifested primarily from the analytical phase of Cubism onwards. The first chapter deals with the sources of inspiration of cubism, namely Paul Cézanne and primitive art. It explores elements of otherness and ugliness, mainly associated with the feeling of tremendum. In Cézanne's work it notes his relationship to the landscape, which it examines in connection with sacred space. Primitive art served as a parenthesis for Picasso, thanks to which he was able to look at things in a new way. The real breakthrough, however, comes with the creation of analytical cubism, for it is a picture of a radically different and new world, a world based on the subjectivity of its creator. The second chapter traces the chronological development of Cubism from the analytical period, through the invention of collage to the synthetic period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to...
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