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Eva Prokopcová - painting work
KULÍKOVÁ, Markéta
The thesis seeks to introduce the life and work of Eva Prokopcova, a contemporary South Bohemain artist, with an emphasis placed primarily on her paintings while also acknowledging her drawings which represent an important part of her work. It focuses on Prokopcova's artistic career along with its critical reception and on the events in her personal life which heavily influenced her work. The chapters on paintings are presented in chronological order and deal with selected painting series. The conclusion reflects on the position of Prokopcova's work within the larger artistic context and points out its unique features and the individuality of her approach which are yet to be fully appreciated.
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Abstract Tendencies in Czech Art throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
LAZÁRKOVÁ, Simona
The diploma thesis named ´Abstract Tendencies in Czech Art in the 1970s and 80s´ is processed in both, a theoretical and a creative, practical parts. The theoretical part presents abstract tendencies in Czech art during the 1970s and 80s representing the work of artists creating pieces of a ball and a geometrical shape of a circle in both, surface as well as spacial creation. The works of Václav Boštík, Stanislav Kolíbal, Hugo Demartini, Vladimír Škoda and Woody Vasulka are presented and emphasized. The practical part is presented in the form of a graphic creation including a circular theme with a subsequent area solution in gypsum. Everything is accompanied by drawing studies, graphic examinations and gypsum castings of circular objects.
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Compliment to Karel Malich (theoretical-practical thesis)
SVOBODOVÁ, Dominika
The bachelor's thesis Tribute to Karel Malich consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals mainly with the personality, life and work of Karel Malich. It also outlines the historical and social context of Malich's work and, last but not least, deals with energy as an inspirational element in Malich's work. The practical part of this thesis extends the theoretical part by realization of paintings. It also aims to understand Malich's work and sources of inspiration.
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Between Realism and Abstraction: The Creation of Meaning in the Work of František Kupka, Paul Klee and Willem de Kooning
VANDERKOVÁ, Andrea
The main focus of this research is to clarify the relationship of František Kupka's abstract work to reality and his approach to creation and interpretation of visual meaning. In addition to Kupka's work itself, the research is also aimed to create sufficient theoretical background for following interpretation. This part of the research adresses visual communication, especially the significance of the image in relation to (non-)similarity, and the processes of identification and articulation of meaning in abstract image. This theoretical background, inspired by visual studies, include findings from several disciplines, especially semiotics, psychology and neuroaesthetics. The synthesis of these findings is specifically applied to František Kupka's abstract painting, The Cathedral. The interpretation is based on visual studies, František Kupka's own opinions, and the graduate´s own observation and reception, with the focus on the conditions of reception.
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Abstraction in Automata Algorithms
Kocourek, Tomáš ; Lengál, Ondřej (referee) ; Holík, Lukáš (advisor)
Tato práce si klade za cíl implementaci a experimentální porovnání protiřetězcových algoritmů s abstrakcí a bez abstrakce, které testují prázdnost alternujících automatů. Autor také navrhuje vlastní algoritmy s abstrakcí a navrhuje několik optimalizací pro existující abstraktní algoritmy. Práce popisuje teoretické pozadí studovaných algoritmů a navrhuje efektivní způsob implementace datových struktur, které jsou těmito algoritmy používány. Experimentální vyhodnocení na náhodných automatech ukazuje, že algoritmy bez abstrakce vykazují obecně lepší výsledky, neboť nevyužívají náročné operace průniku a komplementace shora a zdola uzavřených množin. V případě automatů s vysokou hustotou přechodů však algoritmy bez abstrakce zpomalují a algoritmy s abstrakcí naopak zrychlují.
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The Cobra Movement in the Context of Art of the 40s and early 50s.
Strasserová, Anna ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Rakušanová, Marie (referee)
This work deals with the experimental art group Cobra which united artists of three countries - Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands, after the World War II. Although this movement was active only between the years 1948 and 1951, the beginning of this group can be traced in the pre-war period when the future members of the group were influenced by the mainstream art movements. Similarly, we cannot see the year 1951 as the end of the importance of this international art formation. Despite the short duration, the group united number of artists from different countries who then influenced many of future artists and art movements. This work therefore mentions the activity of Cobra members before the actual establishment of the group, attempts to describe in detail its work during its existence, and lastly, it indicates its further heading. A special chapter is dedicated to the connection of the group Cobra to the Czech art. The artists of Cobra drew their main inspiration from the work of arts of specific groups, such as that of children, mentally ill, so called primitive nations, or from the folk art. Alongside that, the artists created their own unique style based on collective and spontaneous work and liberal art expression. The plurality of their art expression and their relationship to other art...
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Contribution of social dominance on performance in spatial cognitive tasks in pigeons
Janská, Iveta ; Landová, Eva (advisor) ; Sedláček, František (referee)
Diploma thesis generally compares individual success pigeons in spatial tasks of varying complexity (in a role that requires abstraction of visual stimuli representing spatial relationships on the touch screen using two different strategies and spatial search task the middle plate of a series of plates with different variants of location) with hierarchical status of males and group females. Specifically thesis compares individual success pigeons in spatial tasks of varying complexity. The hardest task requires a certain level of abstraction of visual stimuli representing spatial relationships using experimentally induced two strategies: mapping strategy or specific symbol association with a position in space. The role tests on the touch screen with the help of operant conditionings. Difficulty in various stages of growing, the last stage role does manage only some individuals. Conversely easier task in real space with a bird tasked with finding the midpoint between objects in different variants locations within the arena. The difficulty of the task is not growing, and it can solve some individuals who have not learned operant conditioning if the previous job. Performance in cognitive tasks could be affected by the hierarchical status of the animal in the group. Pigeons position in the hierarchy has...
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Abstract tasks in birds - spatial vs non-spatial tasks
Janská, Iveta ; Landová, Eva (advisor) ; Vlček, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to compare spatial cognitive tasks (radial maze and analogs, geometry and features) and non-spatial abstract cognitive task (concept formation and categorization, transitive inference) in birds. Because each of tasks have different testing methods they are compared according to method types in separate thematic groups, which are discussed each other. The extension of this thesis on theories derived from human psychology such as self-recognition, episodic-like memory, and theory of mind.
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Conception of an Object as a Complex of Perceptions in David Hume's Philosophy
Fršlínek, Jan ; Hill, James (advisor) ; Palkoska, Jan (referee)
Práce pojednává o objektu (jakožto komplexu percepcí) a s daným tématem souvisejícími otázkami v kontextu filosofie Davida Huma, jak je obsažena především v první knize jeho díla Treatise of Human Nature a rovněž s přihlédnutím k dílům Enquiry Concerning Human Undestanding a An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature a dalším titulům primární a sekundární literatury. Tematizováno je v tomto kontextu tedy nejprve Humovo pojetí percepcí jako takové (a to na základě první kapitoly Treatisu, Of ideas, their origin, composition, connexion, abstraction etc.). Poté je v souvislosti s předchozím pojednáno i o Humově pojetí identity (především objektu-tělesa) a jeho koncepce individuace, resp. i stálosti a koherence. (a to na základě čtvrté kapitoly Of scepticism with regard to senses). Na konci práce jsou kontrastovány různé možné typy objektů, jež lze (dle autora této práce) chápat jako komplexy percepcí a poté je nabídnuto schéma hypotézy o individuaci tzv. materiálních těles (bodies) v prostoru.
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Hannes Beckmann (1909-1977). Dessau - Prague - New York
Kuzica Rokytová, Bronislava ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Rousová, Hana (referee) ; Klimešová, Marie (referee)
Hannes Beckmann (1909-1977). Dessau - Prague - New York This PhD thesis is dedicated to an exceptional, though still forgotten personality, an artist of German descent, Hannes Beckmann |1909-1977|. A graduate of Germany's Bauhaus, he was one of the refugees fleeing Nazism to Czechoslovakia, and among many other achievements, he later became the director of the photography department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through his work, he fulfilled avant-garde ideas on the synthesis of artistic fields: he was a painter, stage designer, art theorist and pedagogue, but also a creator of abstract objects moving along the boundaries of minimalistic and kinetic constructions. His fate in life and created body of work began gaining a clearer form in the framework of research on visual artists, who found sanctuary in interwar Czechoslovakia from demagogic political systems. Until that time, Hannes Beckmann had been utterly unknown to Czech art history and elsewhere. This is seen in the absence of his name in Czech technical literature, but also because he was never mentioned even in publications published by the Bauhaus with which he had been involved for some time. There was only sketchy information on his pedagogical and artistic work in the area of Op-Art (optical art) from the 1960s to 1970s in the United...
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