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Landscape of "Železné hory" (Iron Mountains) as a painting theme
Holý, Ondřej ; Daniel, Ladislav (advisor) ; Gajdošíková, Pavla (referee)
The diploma thesis is divided into three parts to meet the requirements of the Department of Art Education. The main part consists of an artistic - historical chapter, which discusses the phenomenon of painting in the Iron Mountains as a place for the development of landscape painting at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The work focuses on the analysis of landscape motifs in a given locality. He compares the motifs that inspired painters and seeks their connection to the work of other painters and puts them in the context of open-air painting. The chapter deals in detail with five painters, other painters are mentioned marginally due to the need for context. The choice of motifs does not differ from the motifs painted in other areas. The specificity of painting in the Iron Mountains lies in the simplicity of the landscape and its colors. The motifs here are mainly rivers, the Iron Mountains, rural cottages around Ronov nad Doubravou, Kraskov, and last but not least in stonehouses. Other motifs include motifs with a path, ponds, especially the Utopenec pond near Ronov nad Doubravou, Lichnice castle. The painters often take over the composition of the paintings from their predecessors. The next part - comments, represent their own work based on a comparison of the motif of the images created...
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František Kaván - friendship in correspondence 1894-1941, Kaván's correspondence with František Topič, Oldřich Blažíček and Ladislav Jan Živný
Charvátová, Eliška ; Ebelová, Ivana (advisor) ; Zachař, Michael (referee)
This diploma thesis presents compiled and edited collection of letters from the czech landscape painter František Kaván (1866-1941), a scholar of Julius Mařák's painting school, to the publisher and gallerist František Topič (1858-1941), the painter Oldřich Blažíček (1887-1953) and the librarian and bibliographer Ladislav Jan Živný (1872-1949). The edition is based on 104 letters kept in the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague and the Archives of the National Gallery in Prague. The correspondence describes a life of the painter from the year 1894 to 1941. The diploma thesis analyses and comments approachable literature and deals with relevant sources of material. Editorial comment summarizes principles and methods applied in this thesis, one part is dedicated to the editor Svatopluk Klír. The main parts are chapters based on commentary of selected passages of 104 edited documents with further relevant information in the apparatus. Fulltext edition of mentioned documents is a part of the appendix. A part of the thesis are indices and list of sources and literature. This edition of Kaván's letters from 19th to second part of 20th century reflects till now uncompiled sources and throug them give as a new insight into life and work the significant czech landscape painter and his three friends who...
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