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Self-Portrait and its Forms in Works of Famous Photographers and in Works of Younger Generation in the Czech and Slovak Republic
Bričová, Katarína ; Grygar, Štěpán (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
My graduation thesis shows reflections on the phenomenon of the self ? portrait. I am particularly
interested in the answer to the question why most artists have been attracted by the self ? portrait.
At the beginning of my thesis I follow examples of the self ? portraiture in the history of Art. First part refers to the development of the self ? portrait in photography. Then I show how the self ? portrait was influenced from Ancient Egypt to Renaissance and Impressionism and how it is influenced in the present times. The self ? portrait has appeared in photography from the very beginning. Its different aspects are shown in photographic self ? portraits of famous photographers. In next chapter I focus on different features of this phenomenon in works of contemporary photographers such as Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Orlan, Jeff Koons, Gilbert and George and others. The sixth chapter is devoted to a seeking and exploring generation of younger artists from the Czech and Slovak Republics. They are either recent graduates in Art or students of Art at universities. I interview them in attempt to discover a source of inspiration for their photographic self ? portraits and to find out how it started, what goals they wanted to attain by self ? presentation and how they benefit from it. In the last chapter I explain the importance of self ? portrait in my life. Is it a form of art therapy or a form of narcissism? Are intimate confessions of artists really important in the present times?
In conclusion I reflect on the answers from the interviews with some contemporary photographers
and sum up my discoveries from them.
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Significancy of photography in the context of history of art and in the context of visual studies
Stecker, David ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
Do we currently find ourselves at the divide of qualitative change in creative processes? Are we witnessing the end of the grand era of European culture model, the meaning of which has been immense and, in the course of two thousand and five hundred years, capable of reflecting feelings and fates of European nations with unprecendented plasticity? Are we to proclaim final exhaustion of this era and beginning of new aesthetics of postmodernism? Or shall we consider it a mere episode, an enclave with amusing, creative parameters full of freshness and playfulness which, while not guarding the boundaries of authorship, will after some time prepare a return to the once abandoned traditional model, enriched by these newly discovered traces and expanded to follow further adventures of creative search? I love controversial questions, I love dreaming about uncertain destinies, open endings, surprising solutions. Let's step inside this story, then.
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Statesmans portrait developement
Bouška, Ondřej ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
The way of portraying statesmen, that we got intimately acquainted with throughout the 20th century, must be seen in connection with the genre artists have been concerned with since the beginnings of the figurative art. The main topic of this study is the chronological development within which the preceding periods have impact on the following periods. The thesis also reveals significant parallels in the area of formal part of statesmen's and rulers' imaging and the way deities, gods and the God are imaged, i.e. the highest divine authorities, supposing the similarities between these genres are not random. Requisites for portraying leaders of empires and states resulted in defining almost a unified style of such portrayals, which was broken and significantly changed only by the emergence of photography. The new aesthetics and typology of photography imaging brings about new ways of portraying statesmen at the beginning of the 20th century, which are nevertheless influenced by tradition and which thus take the tradition into account.
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Recycling in photography
Veselá, Barbora ; Musilová, Helena (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
The text introduces recycling as one of the main trends of contemporary fine arts that deserves attention, especially in the area of photography. The author explains the term and shows evolution of recycling in the history of fine arts. The author spares a thought for the status of photography and its recycling in post-modern situation from the view of a beholder and the author. She perceives doubts of legitimacy of using unoriginal pieces of art in her own art production. Method of recycling can be useful for creating the new possibilities for expression of feelings and thoughts. The author specializes in physical recycling of photography, not in the one of the content. In the art of photography the author classifies recycling according to the method of processing of taken-over shots. She lists the authors and their specific pieces of art on which she explains creative methods in more details
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Současná politická fotografie
Müller, Kristyna ; Silverio, Robert (advisor) ; Musilová, Helena (referee)
V me bakalarske praci zkoumam fotografy, kteri pracuji s politikou, politicke fotografy. Ty kteri fotografuji zamerne politicky, aby mohli komentovat specificke politicke udalosti. Fotografove jako Alfredo Jaar, Raphael Dallporta a Jean-Christian Bourcart. Jejich praci prozkoumavam s otazkami, jak fotografuji, ktere politicke situace a jak pracuji s pozorovatelem.
Je to siroke tema, a ja zkousim dat ctenari prvni seznameni s tim, co politicka fotografie je.
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