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Vegetable motif in painting at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century.
KOVÁŘOVÁ, Hana
The bachelor's thesis Plant motif in painting at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the motif of plants in paiting at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. It introduces flowers as plants in the layers of meaning that are part of the artwork. As an example is presented the work of P. A. Renoir. The practical creative part presents eight wash drawings with plant motifs, such as: gladiolus, lily, hydrangea, rose, sunflower and zinnia. The presentation includes a series of sketch material.
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With fantasy inborn. The painter Sláva Tonderová - Zátková
ŽENÍŠKOVÁ, Anna
The diploma thesis entitled With fantasy inborn. The painter Sláva Tonderová - Zátková, is based on Anna Ženíšková's long-term interest in the position of women artists through the world of history of art history. In this thesis is Anna Ženíšková focused on the life and work of the painter Sláva Zátková, whose roots are also closely connected with České Budějovice and important ancestors such as Zátka and Havlíček - Borovský. With the help of period diary records, catalogs of exhibitions, local art critiques, literature and the painter's works is Anna Ženíšková trying to closely and biographically analyzes the formation of the painter's personality and artistic creation. Moreover Anna Ženíšková is trying to place Sláva Zátková in the context of her time, she studies the possible influence of all events in the painter's life on her work and tries to define the development and variability of her painting style, attitude towards modern art and her colleagues, her artistic autonomy. The artistic production of Sláva Tonderová - Zátková is divided chronologically into imaginary time periods, which according to the author of the presented work was essential for the development of Sláva Zátková's art and represented the individual phases of the painter's work. Based on a deeper knowledge of the painter's life, art and available sources, the author of the submitted diploma thesis asks herself a fundamental question - " How much was Sláva Tonderová - Zátková a good painter?". Was her success a work of her own talent or perhaps rather the result of her good parentage and influential friends? At the end of this diploma thesis, Anna Ženíšková presents the results of her research and defends her final point of view. In conclusion, the author of the presented work marginally deals with the important issue of the position of women across the fields of art history, in which the legacy of many female authors are often forgotten.
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Katherine Mansfield: a lyrical analyst of mind
MRKVIČKOVÁ, Lucie
The main aim of this diploma thesis is a thematic and textual analysis of Katherine Mansfield´s short stories, which are divided into three groups considered as typical. Though the first and the last of her collections are examined separately, since they fail to fit into any established pattern. Attention is given to Mansfield´s personal life and relationships, from which she derived much of her inspiration as well as to the contemporary literary influences. Special consideration has deserved Mansfield´s poetry, which put the finishing touches to her literary soul. The close study is supplemented by a contrastive analysis of Mansfield´s and Chekhov´s approach to similar literary themes.
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Suggestive impressionism of Elizabeth Bowen
KARÁSKOVÁ, Iva
The aim of this diploma thesis is to interpret the works of fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, both novels and short stories. Attention is also given to her personal life, with due respect to her childhood and adolescence as possible inspiration for her creations. The main emphasis then is on a thorough analysis of relationships between children and young girls and the adult world. Last but not least, the paper deals with Bowen's impressionistic technique of depicting reality through individual perception.
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Commented translation: Les Impressionnistes (Anne Distel, Nathan/Réunion des Musées nationaux, Paris 1988, pp. 3-47)
Ullrichová, Eva ; Belisová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šotolová, Jovanka (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of the Czech translation of a part of the first chapter (Judaism: The Journey of the Soul) from a book edited by Steven Rosen Ultimate Journey: Death and Dying in the World's Major Religions and a commentary on the translation. The commentary comprises an analysis of the source text (using an adapted form of Ch. Nord's pattern), a concept of translation method, a detailed description of translation problems and their solutions and a typology of translation shifts. Keywords translation, translation analysis, translation problem, translation shift, impressionism, impressionists, art
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Microcosm aesthetics
Zahradníčková, Jana ; Šmíd, Jan (advisor) ; Ovčáčková, Johanka (referee)
Jana Zahradníčková: Microcosm aesthetics /Bachelor thesis/ Prague 2011 - Charles University in Prague, Fakulty of Education, Institute development in education. Pedagogy. Combined studies. 56 norm. p. Focus of work: research study, which aims to introduce children to the life forms that surround us every day, but they are not visible to the naked eye. Subject: microworld presentation by means of visual material, visible organisms that may be beneficial to us and dangerous at the same time. Aim: To attract attention by simple game for children's science, which can cause both aesthetic and get them thinking. Benefits, knowledge: based on personal experience, I realized how helpful for a foster home profession of educators is. Key words: aesthetics, a microcosm, biology, medicine, Impressionism, education, advertising, deprivation, microbes.
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Perception of female nudity in the second half of the 19th century in the context of French art
Bažantová, Jitka ; Půtová, Barbora (advisor) ; Soukup, Václav (referee)
The subject of this thesis is to analyze the perception of a naked female body in French society of the 2nd half of the 19th century. The work focuses on discovering, highlighting and interpreting the theme of female nudity in artistic works of this period, which provoked strong reactions and influenced contemporary culture. The first part is consecrated to the position of women in the 2nd half of the 19th century society on historical, social and cultural backgrounds and its changes in the ambience of the first wave of the women's movement. The attention is brought to some significant representatives of early feminism and to the goals and innovations these personalities were aiming to achieve. The second part of the thesis describes and analyzes selected works of art on the theme of female nudity. First, it deals with the works of academic painters who were the bearers of traditional artistic ideals and academic rules for displaying naked female body. Their artistic production is nowadays somewhat underestimated. In art history, however, it plays an important role. Therefore, the value of their work for the study of the perception of a naked female body is not omitted. The interest then turns to the Impressionism, the outstanding 2nd half of the 19th century art movement. In the center of...
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The Genesis of the style of Claude Monet
Buriánková, Adéla ; Jančík, Jiří (advisor) ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (referee)
This thesis offers a look upon the artistic creation of Claude Monet during the period of living in Giverny, the picturesque village in which he bought a house with a garden arranged according his own taste. In the first part, we talk about the aesthetics of the 19th century and we are dealing with artistic and literary movements. These movements are romanticism, realism, naturalism, parnasse, symbolism, decadence, art nouveau and art deco. In the next part, we focus on the painter Claude Monet, his biography and aesthetics of his art. Our attention is devoted to the Giverny period and to the motives, the specific use of spectrum of colours and the technique of Claude Monet's art. For making a total awareness of Monet's period in Giverny, we analyse the concrete paintings on which we demonstrate the characteristic signs for Giverny era. Keywords: Claude Monet, Giverny, impressionism, water lilies, light
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The Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi
Fučíková, Lucie ; Müllerová, Eva (advisor) ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (referee)
This bachelor's thesis aims to find a connection between the fate of painter Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and the exhibited artworks at the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum. It also endeavours to remind the artistic legacy of this French modernist. The thesis is divided into two main parts. In the first part, the life of the painter is mentioned in detail. The second part is dedicated to the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum. Here, the author also used her knowledge from the personal visit of the museum in the process of making. This part is chronologically and thematically arranged in accordance with the exposition. Toulouse-Lautrec's key artworks from each life period are successively described. The emphasis is put on searching for possible analogies between the painter's personal and artistic life. KEYWORDS Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, French painting, Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Montmartre, Albi
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