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The modern art in India - the outline of development
Vítů, Barbora ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis attempts to provide a chronological outline of the development of Indian modern visual arts - from its beginnings to the present. A key determinant for the attribute "modern" used in this thesis, is related to the Indian cultural and historical context in its specifics. The key topics of this thesis are especially various forms of modern Indian art and cultural tradition, eclecticism and universal visual language, as well as the question of effects of cultural globalization. The thesis has been structured in a manner, that each chapter provides in its beginning a general idea and description of the context to which a concrete style of artistic approach responses. There are also key references to the emergence of some major institutions included (such as certain art schools and academies, the National Gallery, Expo, Triennale etc.). The individual chapters deal with representative artists. Their works and life stories may be helpful in approach to further understanding modern Indian art in its complexity. The work is complemented by several short appendices.
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The portrayal of modern India - reflections in the life and art of the painter M.F. Husain
Vítů, Barbora ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Dagmar (referee)
The thesis disserts an outlook on life and Art of the Modern Indian painter M.F. Husain (1915-2011), with a special attention on his art production which reflects some of socio- cultural changes of modernizing and globalizing India of the 20th and 21th Century. The thesis has been structured in chapters dealing with Husain's personal and artistic development, providing also the analysis of some concrete art works which have been involved with the socio-cultural changes being described - from the point of view of their inner message, formal idiom or the way they have or have not been accepted by the public. The culturological paradigm has been chosen as an appropriate one to treat the topic with aim to integrate systematically various notions of the Humanities. With this goal the author of the thesis uses proper bibliographic, biographic and media references, sources from the Prague's National Gallery's Archive as well as the memoirs of the people who came together with Husain's personality and Art in the time of his visits to ex Czechoslovakia. The thesis is also a kind of deepening and specification of the two of previous bachelor theses of the author (The Modern Art in India - an outline of development, 2010 and The Indian Painting - a History of Cultural Dialogues, 2012).
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Indian painting - a history of cultural dialogues
Vítů, Barbora ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Kostič, Svetislav (referee)
This bachelor thesis attempts to dissert about the symbolical (art) reflection of chosen socio-cultural changes indigenous to repetitional situations of acultural process in the historical context of the Indian subcontinent. The changes will be pursued within the temporal range of the Middle Ages, the Colonial Period, the Era of Modern India (since 1947), till the present. The key topics discussed in the thesis are also the postcolonial prospecting of an authentic cultural identity and the cultural challenge of globalization trespassing Indian culture - as well as its art. The thesis will provide the reflection of concrete problems relating religious heterogeneity, social life and social identity, gender and human sexuality, which have been mirroring in fine arts of the historically changing Indian context. The idiomatic dialogue in between single art traditions is also implied within the thesis as a crucial thematic component.
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The modern art in India - the outline of development
Vítů, Barbora ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee) ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor)
This bachelor thesis attempts to provide a chronological outline of the development of Indian modern visual arts - from its beginnings to the present. A key determinant for the attribute "modern" used in this thesis, is related to the Indian cultural and historical context in its specifics. The key topics of this thesis are especially various forms of modern Indian art and cultural tradition, eclecticism and universal visual language, as well as the question of effects of cultural globalization. The thesis has been structured in a manner, that each chapter provides in its beginning a general idea and description of the context to which a concrete style of artistic approach responses. There are also key references to the emergence of some major institutions included (such as certain art schools and academies, the National Gallery, Expo, Triennale etc.). The individual chapters deal with representative artists. Their works and life stories may be helpful in approach to further understanding modern Indian art in its complexity. The work is complemented by several short appendices.
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