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Responses of Spanish Civil War in Propaganda Art in Czechoslovakia
TOMÁŠ, Adam
Spanish civil war was with no doubt a conflict which affected people around the world , including artists from Czechoslovakia. In my thesis I try to describe the significant influence of the war on some politically interrested Czechoslovak artists, and to present this influence on meaning and visual form of their works. International politics and art context in Europe between the World Wars caused sympathy of many progressive and avantgarde artists of that time towards Spanish antifascist republicans. These artists attemted to actively change or influence the events in Spain via their art and works. Relationships between the most active Czechoslovak artists, and their motivation, was strongly connected to their political beliefs and views (related to the situation in Spain, based on which fraction they supported), more than during any previous time period. In this cause we can find side by side liberal democrat Josef Čapek, 19th century anarchist Stanislav Kostka Neumann or Antonín Pelc, the propaganda star of Czechoslovak communist era after the year 1948. This broad coalition against fascism corresponded to spanish People's front. The main issues of my thesis are political and historical context of civil war, social situation in Europe, Spain and Czechoslovakia, meaning of chosen works and also formal signs, mainly because the form is usually influenced by the unstable 30s and progress of dictatorships in Europe as well.
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