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Construction of identity through self-portrait in social media era
Čermáková, Alžběta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with a photographic and social phenomenon of contemporary society - the selfie. The selfie is a variation of photographic self-portrait taken by mobile photocamera. The selfie is a phenomenon because it has become a part of daily life of a huge number of people and started to influence the society throughout all its spheres. It has started to influence the human existence and the way we perceive ourselves. This work tries to examine this unexplored phenomenon from all possible angles. It observes and examines the selfie from the sociological, psychological and also philosophical point of view. The thesis attempts to describe, characterize and define it by using other important terms that communicate with the selfie. The work implants the selfie to the context of social networks and tries to find out its influence on the human behaviour. The work uses qualitative and quantitative methods to provide the insight into the mind of someone who is a keen selfie photographer and by following the results find out possible motivations and consequences that the selfie could have on the human subject. The work offers wide spectrum of theories that provides different explanations of this phenomenon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Selfies as a tool of gender identity construction
Gejdošová, Iva ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Pavlík, Petr (referee)
Taking selfies is a technique of self-monitoring, gaze and comparison, drawing from its regulatory force upon women. The photo-taking practice marks the surveillance of how individual gender performances fulfill the expectations of existing gender norms. The contemporary postfeminist hegemonic femininity presents woman as owning the right kind of dispositions, such as confidence or sexiness, in which case the area of the body plays a central role. In order to explore how performances of such femininity are constructed, this study uses content analysis to study the visual and textual content of Instagram posts. This master thesis analyses whether the Instagram users tagging posts #zanormalniholky (#fornormalgirls) are responsive through selfies to postfeminist femininity or rather use it as a form of resistance against the postfeminist discourse. Identity, including gender identity, is constituted through acts that purport to be its consequence. Selfies - as the results of this thesis show - have normative potential. Key words postfeminism, selfie, Instagram, social media, gender, self-portrait, self-presentation, feminism, #zanormalniholky, femininity, makeover paradigm
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Meshes
Pec, Jiří ; Moješčík, David (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the artistic processing of the 3D mesh topology. The object is based on a self-portrait 3D scan and its polygon mesh topology. The realization is made in a steel polygon mesh of the developed body surface, in a way that the individual polygons are loosely connected so that the mesh is flexible as well as human hide.
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The Esthetics of the Scream in Albert Camus Opus
Černá, Kristýna ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Fučíková, Milena (referee)
The main topic of this diploma thesis resides in the comparison of the expressionist painting and the existential literature in connection with the motif of screaming. Despite the temporal and geographical distance of the two artistic movements (we are focused more profoundly in the German and Austrian expressionist painting, while the main literary work of this thesis, the existential novel The Fall comes from the great mind of a French writer, Albert Camus), the research aspires to prove the interconnection of the two movements and their common tendencies, based on the analyses of chosen themes, motifs, technics, and structure. We propose the motif of screaming as the main part of the comparison, as it constitutes an essential axis of the occidental art, as well as the crucial contact point between Expressionism and Existentialism. In spite of the bountifulness of the various interpretations this motif offers, we have chosen only selected ideas and concepts. As far as the formal structure is concerned, the work is divided into three chapters, where the first two are focused on the origins, a brief characterization of the main point of the two esthetics. Furthermore, they describe their related counterparts of the visual arts and literature (the Expressionist literature and Existential painting...
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Self-portait in sculpture in Bohemia
Havelková, Tereza ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
There is only limited amount of sculptural self-portraits. Only few sculptors captured their own appearence and they did it only exceptionally twice in their lives. The first known self-portrait is Petr Parléř's bust in St. Vitus Cathedral's triforium. It is a historically unique example and it remained isolated in the Czech area for a long time. During the Baroque, there began a long line of self-portrait effigies within larger iconographic units, so called cryptoportraits. Three- dimensional effigies, as reliefs, occur with the same frequency.The major turning point for the creation of scuptural self-portraits was made by J. V. Myslbek with his effigy from 1902. He prescribed in its entirety the type of respectable person, the type of representative bust. Since then, there can be found the increasing use of sculptural self-portraits appear, the continuous chronological sequence and its development can be traced in the work of his pupils. The sculptors usually portrait themselves as serious persons; they try to capture all their current experience with representative effigies. Even the expressional part of these effigies represent faithful reflection of reality with accurate depiction of human physiognomy and character. Their work with space is consistent but only minimal with extra-portrait...
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Construction of identity through self-portrait in social media era
Čermáková, Alžběta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with a photographic and social phenomenon of contemporary society - the selfie. The selfie is a variation of photographic self-portrait taken by mobile photocamera. The selfie is a phenomenon because it has become a part of daily life of a huge number of people and started to influence the society throughout all its spheres. It has started to influence the human existence and the way we perceive ourselves. This work tries to examine this unexplored phenomenon from all possible angles. It observes and examines the selfie from the sociological, psychological and also philosophical point of view. The thesis attempts to describe, characterize and define it by using other important terms that communicate with the selfie. The work implants the selfie to the context of social networks and tries to find out its influence on the human behaviour. The work uses qualitative and quantitative methods to provide the insight into the mind of someone who is a keen selfie photographer and by following the results find out possible motivations and consequences that the selfie could have on the human subject. The work offers wide spectrum of theories that provides different explanations of this phenomenon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Self-portrait - Vivisection of One's Own Image
Härtelová, Magdalena Jadwiga ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dealing with self-portraiture as genre with concentration on inner processes regarding the concept of one's own individuality. These take place in the course of creation and manifest themselves in the resulting work of art. The essay contains four case studies analysing self-portraits of four artists throughout art history. A hypothesis is presented in the introductory chapter about two levels of self-portrait - a representational one and a latter one of deviations from original plan, where the self-transformation of creative process shows. The next chapter sums up different types of self-portraits as well as evolution of the genre. Instead of specific art works or artists it focuses on factors influencing perception of self, artists' status and the very self-portraiture as genre. In third chapter, ideological stand points are outlined. It concerns with the limits of objectivity, extent of individuality and temporality. Following is the body of the thesis. It is divided according to the three participants of self- portrait: author, object and viewer. Each chapter is sealed with a section regarding one of the tenses concerning work of art: The Past as a Setting, Visions of the Future and The Presence of Art. The part of the author deals with elements of settings prior to...
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