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Pietá in the Czech Art in the first half of the 20th Century.
Jarolímková, Klára ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Rakušanová, Marie (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the motif of Pietà in the painting and graphic by the Czech and Czech-German artists in the first half of the twentieth century. It explores the inpirations and influences of the religiously oriented pieces of this set of painters. At the beginning there is summarized the evolution of the iconographic motif of Pietà which was isolated from the motifs of the Lamentation of Christ and the Descent from the Cross. The thesis has two parts. First one focuses on the Czech artists and the second one on the Czech-German artists belonging to the Czech artistic scene in this period. The chapters are named after the intellectual basis and the similarity of expression of the included artists. In the early 20th century Rudolf Adámek was occupied by the motif of Pietà in the association with the contemporary symbolism. Karel Holý shifted the meaning of Pietà to the formulation of the hard human deal as well as František Tichý in his compositions od the Good Samaritan quite similar to the wooden gothic statues of Pietà. The existentialist ideas appeared in the work of Jan Autengruber. Vojtěch Tittelbach mixed the existentialist anxiety with the joyful circus performances. The theme of Pietà became actual in the wartime. Karel Černý responded with several paintings of Weepers with...
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Mythological subjects in the work of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hájková, Zita ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the production of Lucas Cranach the Elder. After the introductive encounter with the life of Lucas Cranach the Elder the emphasis is put on the mythological subjects with respect to their origin in historical sources and classical literature. The thesis also considers the different influences on Cranach's work in context with contemporary painters and humanism and presents the conditions mainly in the court of the Saxon Prince-electors where Cranach worked.
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Iconography of Rudolf II.
Zlatohlávková, Eliška ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Fučíková, Eliška (referee) ; Seifertová, Hana (referee)
Many portraits of Rudolf II were painted and created during his lifetime, forming a significant component of Rudolfine art, however, they have not received a sufficient art historical attention. They document, at times at stylyzed manner, the transformation of Rudolf's appearance. However, their most important task was to demonstrate and make tangeable Rudolf's authentic appearance to the world and to celebrate his magnanimity and personality. Thus, there are many portraits that represent Rudolf as a good emperor or a brilliant commander, although, as we know, they did not correspond to reality. A special chapter of the portrait iconography also create complicated allegories about Rudolf's reign relying on representations of personifications, mythological and animal symbols using Rudolf's personal impresa. Most of the portraits follow former portrait types typical for the 16th century, as bust, standing figure or equestrian monument. However, the peculiarity for Rudolfine portraiture is the allegorical portrait Rudolf as Vertumnus painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo that combines classical portrait with allegory.
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Life and work of a late Baroque painter Joseph Hager
Lokšová, Pavlína ; Zapletalová, Jana (advisor) ; Oulíková, Petra (referee)
Life and work of a late baroque painter Joseph Hager The thesis outlines artistic work of Joseph Hager, Czech late baroque painter. The author, especially of the wall painting, studied by Jan Karel Kovář and Antonio d'Agostini. Later worked as an assistant of František Karel Palko in a church St. Nicolas placed in Lesser Town od Prague. The illusive painting of architecture was his specialization. He worked primarily in Czech, but for example he decorated also a church in Vranov near Brno or a church in Dresden. The essential part of thesis is catalog of realizations, which contains a lot of extant works, but also a few realizations, which during the ages were destroyed.
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Portraits of Peter the Great. Impact of European art on the development of Russian portrait school
Savchenko, Sofya ; Oulíková, Petra (advisor) ; Vymazalová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores the portraits of Peter the Great and the influence of the European art on the development of the portrait school of the Russian Empire at the time of Peter's reign. The emperor's portraits were chosen due to his status as the main patron of the art in the Russian empire. In the first chapter I discuss the portrait art before Peter's reign. Second chapter describes the life of Peter the Great. The following chapter explores Peter's views on the art and the development of the art during his reign. The last chapter is presented as a catalogue that describes the portraits of Peter the Great. Keywords baroque, painting, portrait, Petr I, Russia, 18 century, Saint Petersburg
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Temples
Pokorná, Pavlína ; Horálek, Vojtěch (referee) ; Malý, Břetislav (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis, entitled Temples, consists of a set of paintings that the author perceives metaphorically as personal inner temples. The inspiration for the author was nature, which she considers a temple of its kind. The title of the work comes from the symbolism and artistic typification that are used on Japanese traditional clothing - Kimono. The series of paintings is not only inspired by nature and its motifs, but also freely paraphrases elements from textile design - such as shapes or repetitions.
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Merleau-Ponty's use of painting experience for critique of perception
Titová, Aneta ; Rybák, David (advisor) ; Pelcová, Naděžda (referee)
The thesis Merleau-Ponty's Use of Painting Experience for Critique of Perception discusses the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his contribution to perception of corporeality and the body, and especially to use of perception in the area of arts, based on the idea that the truthfulness of the object of our perception is not identical with its real image. The aim of the thesis is to outline the issue of living encounter of subject and object of perception. Besides that, it describes the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty's precursors, namely of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, whose work served to him as a source of inspiration. The second objective of the thesis is to describe life and work of the French painter Paul Cézanne, whose art and specific world view inspired Merleau-Ponty's essay named Eye and Mind. The crucial influences on Paul Cézanne's life and artistic evolution were his unbalanced nature, reactions of the society to his work, and the scenery of Provence, the region where he spent major part of his life. The thesis also compares Cézanne's work with some artistic movements, among them impressionism, which he first followed and later abandoned to be able to create purely on the basis of a careful study of nature and his environment, which he attempted to imitate accurately in his...
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Landscape and space in the work of the Master of the Litomerice Altar
Šindlář, Ondřej ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Ottová, Michaela (referee)
My bachelor thesis will be devoted to formativ of space and landscape in the paintings of the Master of the Litoměřice Altar, an important landmark in the history of Czech painting. This is very clear not just in the figural komponent but also in his approach to space and landscape formation. All existing researchers have pointed it out. The landscape component of the image is closely related to its space construction, for this reason I will discuss this matter in the Master of the Litoměřice Altarpiece more complexly. The prerequisite is the study of the Master's available paintings, art-historical literature, and a summary of previous research in the first part. To put it in the context of the period, a brief excursion into landscape component in the Czech painting preceding the Master of the Litoměřice Altar will follow. The main content of my work will be an analysis of landscape and space in the variol works of the Master of the Litoměřice Altar from the point of view of his possible origins as well as his ways and means of space construction. As the thesis will deal with aspects primarily related to the formal side of the work, mainly formal and comparative approaches will be applied. Also the technical and technological aspects will be taken into account.
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