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The Ideal of Human Body and its Portrayal in the Media
Vaněk, Miroslav ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Lorman, Jaroslav (referee)
The ideal of the human body and it's portrayal in the media The bachelor thesis named "The ideal of the human body and it's portrayal in the media" compares the differences between the approach to the human body in the Holy scripture and modern media, how the media presents it, especially in women's magazines. This also points to more serious problems, which can be caused by the portrayal of the human body presented in modern media. Key words: Ideal, human body, person, media, the beauty, the Holy scripture
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Characters in Short Prosaic Works of Jaroslav Durych
Jumrová, Pavla ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The thesis presents a typology of characters in short prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych. In the introduction the readers get acquainted with contemporary approaches of the theory of literature towards the characters and with the ways to make typologies of characters. The author's opinions about art and man are quoted too because Durych's fiction is influenced by his artistic and religious opinions. Next, Durych's prosaic works are characterised in relation to trends in literature. Information about previous works concerning characters in prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych is also given in the introduction. The central part of the thesis is focused on the analysis of characters in short prosaic works. Both female and male characters are analysed by means of the same criteria: character-definition v. character-hypothesis, character-subject v. character- object, name, appearance, soul, death, love to God and their human partner. Within each section, e.g. Appearance, short prosaic works are analysed in chronological order to show how the characters were altered and how they were influenced by various trends in literature, etc. Eventually, differences between female and male characters are named, and two basic types of female characters and two basic types of male characters which can be found in Durych's...
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Antique inspiration, Czech fine art and school education - Alone in Athens
Kulhánková, Vilma ; Špirk, Ivan (advisor) ; Daniel, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis intends to assess various inspirations of Czech art of the nineteenth, mainly twentieth century by ancient Greek tradition. Special emphasis is given to following two viewpoints: travelling on the one side and body and physicallity on the other. The first part concerns itself with artists travelling south to discover new impulses for their work, the second one deals with various approaches to body and physicallity inspired by Greek art. The didactic section presents an application of these topics to the elementary school Art Education. The practical part consists of two series of photos describing the subjective view of the present Greek metropolis.
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Traces of time (changes of artifical textures as an inspiration for creative work)
Blahníková, Jana ; Kornatovský, Jiří (advisor) ; Bláha, Jaroslav (referee)
JANA BLAHNÍKOVÁ Keywords: texture, matter, art informel, existentialism, time, change, traces, beauty, ugliness, imagination Abstract: The Master Thesis concerns itself with changes of artificial textures as an inspiration for creative work. By artificial textures are meant paints and layers on objects, on which time has left its mark. A part of the Thesis deals briefly with the basic categories of aesthetics with special regard to texture change. The Thesis maps out the Czech and the world art scene of the 1950s and 1960s and focuses on the main artists of that period, whose work relates to the subject. The theoretical base is linked with the artists and art schools of thought, which is presented in the didactic section a part of which I used in my practical work and described in the reflection.
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The Concept of Beauty in the First, Second adn Third Edition of Jungmann's Slovesnost
Vinická, Lucie ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with issues of beauty in three editions of Jungmann's Slovesnost. It gradually narrows its focus on the concept of beauty categories in the first two editions. The first part describes circumstances of Slovesnost's origin and Jungmann's era in general. It also briefly presents the secondary literature, goals and methods of the thesis. The second and third part analyse concepts of beauty in the first and second edition of Slovesnost. The fourth part, which is the crucial part, compares these observations. Aim of this thesis is to outline the author's approach, cover the changes that occurred in the second edition in comparison to the first one, and show Jungmann's work with the concepts of beauty.
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Comparison of view on man and the world in art and philosophy of ancient Greece
Bartošová, Martina ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Pelcová, Naděžda (referee)
The aim of this thesis The comparison of the ancient-art and ancient-philosophy views of the man in the world is to discuss ancient man's featuring in the world, both from the philosophical and artistic point of view. The following chapters, comparing both creative activities, deal with the most important topics closely related to the perception of the ancient man and his world. In particular, the thesis focuses on the relation to the divine and the concept of the ideal beauty. This work's goal is to state, by comparing philosophy and visual arts, whether philosophical thinking has always corresponded with visual arts; and how much they have influenced each other. Keywords The relationship of art and philosophy, ancient Greece, God, beauty, movement.
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Romantic Impulses in Victorian Literature
Beran, Zdeněk ; Hilský, Martin (advisor) ; Mánek, Bohuslav (referee) ; Peprník, Michal (referee)
The thesis attempts to discuss the character of late Romantic literature and art as it developed in England throughout the Victorian period. It follows the assertion made by G. Hough that it is possible to identify a continuous presence of Romantic ideas and methods in the writings of some major Victorian authors, and reflects the fact that there was actually no consensus or prevailing unequivocal view of Romanticism at that time, as is evidenced in the contradicting statements of such writers as John Ruskin and Walter Pater. The first objective of the thesis is thus to define the characteristic features of English Romanticism as they can be tracked down in the formative period of the 18th century and the time of High Romanticism of the first decades of the following century, and to see what transforming changes these characteristics underwent during the Victorian era. The sources of Romantic sensibility are located in the revolutionary role of the scientific discoveries of the 17th century and a new focus of the philosophical writings of that period, concerning mainly operations of the human mind. This development resulted in new aesthetic conceptions based on the two prevailing approaches, empiricism and Neo-Platonism. These theories conditioned the main concern of Romantic thought, i.e. an...
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