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The Issues of Modernist Orientation of Sculpture Studio Graduates at the Academy of Arts in Prague in 1896-1914
Baborovská, Sandra ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Šámal, Petr (referee) ; Fišer, Marcel (referee)
The main subject of the thesis are the beginnings of the studio founded by J. V. Myslbek at the Academy of Arts in Prague in 1896. Firstly, the personality of J. V. Myslbek and his evolution as an artist since the early sixties of the 19th century are being discussed. This part covers Myslbek's trip to Paris in 1878 and his friendship with Vojtech Hynais, which helped him gain a deeper understanding of the contemporary French sculpture and which was vital to the stylistic formation of his sculpture "Music" (created between 1891 and 1907, during Myslbek's presence at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and at the Academy of Arts). Myslbek's first students at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design were influenced by his lyrical conception; the generation of Maratka's classmates have followed their teacher to the newly established Academy of Arts. Around 1900 sharp controversies between the teacher and his students have arised - these in retrograde seem to be essential for their future success. Graduates of the College of Stonemasonry and Sculpture in Horice were among the students of the sculpture studio at the Academy of Arts in Prague. Their previous training laid an ideal foundation for artistic growth under the tuition of Myslbek, who have stressed the importance of craft, which...
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Inspiration of Cindy Sherman - Photographic Self-portrait as a Way of Searching for Identity
Baborovská, Sandra ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Bydžovská, Lenka (referee)
Anglická anotace Inspiration of Cindy Sherman - photographic self-portrait as a way of searching an identity My bachelor thesis deals with photography and self-portraits like the specific need of human being to look at itself physically and also to get in its inner space. The recognition of oneself in a photography can serve to define oneself, to create identifiable and distinct subject. This is the narcissistic pleasure of the mirror, in which we reassure ourselves in our existence. The fact that photographic means can be employed to create fictions, to promote surreal or fantastic illusions, to create fetishes that are fixed and transfix, is what makes the photography an icon as well. The medium of photography yields also the perfect arena for the play of gender and sexuality. The beginning of existence the photographic self-portraits is associated with "carte de visite" and photographic studios like Mayer & Pierson where these photographs depicted the Countess de Castiglione in various masks and disguises. The surrealistic artists started to experiment with own identity afterwards. They used masks to "uncover" themselves. Here leads the way to my main point of interest in this bachelor thesis: Cindy Sherman. Of course we need to consider carefully terms and contexts that formed Sherman's work, but...
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