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OK 1934-38: The Prague Intermezzo of Oskar Kokoschka
Foschiová, Regina ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
OK 1934-38: The Prague Intermezzo of Oskar Kokoschka The bachelor's thesis deals with the Kokoschka's Prague period between years 1934-38. First, it is focused on the cultural and political background of 1930's in Europe and on artist's life and work in Prague. Subsequently, it considers the influence of notable Czech figures on Kokoschka's activity. Kokoschka fled Austria for Prague in 1934 as a 48-year-old man. There his name was adopted by the Oskar Kokoschka-Bund, founded by other expatriate artist, although he declined otherwise to participate. The landscapes that he painted in Prague belong to the greatest of his work. He also met Olda Palkovská there, who was later to become his wife, and painted the portrait of Thomas G. Masaryk, President of Czechoslovakia (1935-36). His work was showed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937 and more than four hundred of his works were therefore removed from German museums. In response, he painted his self portrait as a degenerated artist. A year later the artist immigrated to London, where allegorical subject matter with political thematic overtones began to inform his pictures. In 1953 he founded his summer academy "School of Seeing" at the castle of Hohensalzburg, which he managed as a director until 1963. His thinking was deeply influenced...
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Trends in Exhibiting and Presentation of Contemporary Art in Prague Galleries
Foschiová, Regina ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
The thesis named The Trends in Exhibiting Contemporary Art in Prague galleries deals with the topic of displaying and mediating contemporary art in the galleries and exhibitions. The thesis focuses on the elements of the complex issue and the particular exhibitions held in Prague from 2007 to 2011. Each element is covered in one dedicated chapter - the artwork, the viewer, the curator and the gallery. The chapter about the artwork summarizes the evolution of this term in the 20th century. The chapter about the viewer pursues the biological aspects of the process of seeing and perception and the relationship between the viewer and the image. The chapter about the work of the curator of the contemporary art focuses on the evolution of their part in the galleries' working process from the figure of Harald Szeemann to the term The Crisis of Curator. The gallery is introduced as a three- dimensional term: as a space for exhibitions, an institution and a mediating scope. The examples included in each chapter are derived from the Prague galleries and exhibition spaces and so the thesis also deals with the topic of Prague gallery scene. The final chapter is constituted of ten exhibitions that were held in Prague from 2007 to 2011 and are in my opinion the most important and significant ones for that...
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OK 1934-38: The Prague Intermezzo of Oskar Kokoschka
Foschiová, Regina ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
OK 1934-38: The Prague Intermezzo of Oskar Kokoschka The bachelor's thesis deals with the Kokoschka's Prague period between years 1934-38. First, it is focused on the cultural and political background of 1930's in Europe and on artist's life and work in Prague. Subsequently, it considers the influence of notable Czech figures on Kokoschka's activity. Kokoschka fled Austria for Prague in 1934 as a 48-year-old man. There his name was adopted by the Oskar Kokoschka-Bund, founded by other expatriate artist, although he declined otherwise to participate. The landscapes that he painted in Prague belong to the greatest of his work. He also met Olda Palkovská there, who was later to become his wife, and painted the portrait of Thomas G. Masaryk, President of Czechoslovakia (1935-36). His work was showed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937 and more than four hundred of his works were therefore removed from German museums. In response, he painted his self portrait as a degenerated artist. A year later the artist immigrated to London, where allegorical subject matter with political thematic overtones began to inform his pictures. In 1953 he founded his summer academy "School of Seeing" at the castle of Hohensalzburg, which he managed as a director until 1963. His thinking was deeply influenced...
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