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Czech Art of the First Half of the 20th Century in Context
FaVU-1CU20st-ZAcad. year: 2017/2018
Overview of art styles, personalities and tendencies in painting and sculpture in the Czech lands in the 20th century. The attention is paid to the phenomena which incorporate or follow expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstraction, as well as to the transformations in the landscape painting and to period decorativeness or retrograde tendencies.
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2, The "Osma group" in context. Munchian painting in Czech art. Neoclasicism. German members of the group.
3. The Fine Artists Group. The Cubism Dispute. The Art Monthly. The Comparison of exhibition activities of the Manes and Group 4 activities. Second Wave Symbolism. the SURSUM group, other personalities.
5. The sculptors Jan Štursa and Otto Gutfreund. The question of monumental art in Czech sculpture of the early20th century.
6. The "Obstinates" group. Futurism, bergsonism. The Almanach of 1914. S.K.Neumann, Josef Čapek. Václav Špála. Rudolf Kremlička. Jan Zrzavý. Vlastislav Hofman. Otakar Marvánek.
7. The "Butterbur" group (Devětsil) and poetism. The birth of the society, manifests, changes of opinion, Karel Teige. Adolf Hoffmeister, František Muzika. Exhibitions, pictorial poems. Artificialism and Jindřich Štyrský - Toyen.
8. The Arts Society and their Life and Myth magazine. Jareš, Boháček, Rabas. Vlastimil Rada. Vojtěch Sedláček
9. The Social group. Karel Holan. Miloslav Holý. Pravoslav Kotík. The Arts Society and their support of younger art generations (The Butterbur and 42 Groups)
10. Neoclassicism. The Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris, 1925. The reflection of Andre Lhote and Tamara Lempicka's art in Czech art. Neocubism, eroticism; Neue Sachlichkeit in the Czech context. The followers of Zrzavy. Otto Gutfreund. Alfred Justitz. Jaroslav Král.
11. Jan bauch and parallels of his art and Oscar Kokoschka's. František Tichý (French context), Josef Lada, Zdenek Rykr and the Kolin circle.
12. The interim period of 1930 - 1934. Erotic revue. The Poetry 1932 exhibition. The Surrealist group, personal and political relationships. Karel Teige. Vítězslav Nezval. Jindřich Štyrský. Toyen. Josef Šíma. František Janoušek.
13. Abstrac art of the 1930s. František Kupka. František Foltýn. Les Artistes Musicalistes and Arne Hošek. Augustin Ságner. Miloš Boria. The generation of Symbolists in 1930s. Vojtěch Preissig. František Drtikol. The Line group.
14. The Moravian Visual Artists Society between the wars. Albín Polášek, a Moravian sculptor in the USA. Jakub Obrovský.
15. Academic painting betwen the wars. Vratislav Nechleba, František Hlavica, Oskar Brázda, František Hlavica
16. Christian art - art at the margins. Josef Florian and his circle. Bohuslav Reynek.
17. Landscape painting. Otakar Nejedly, his trips to India and Ceylon. Art deco.
18. Interwar scupltupre between the official commissions and avantgarde.
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Basic literature
Lahoda, V. (ed.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1890-1938. Praha 1998 (2 díly) (CS)
Lahoda, V., Emil Filla, Praha 2007 (CS)
Lamač, M., Osma a Skupina výtvarných umělců, Praha 1988 (CS)
Larvová, H. (ed.), Sursum 1910-1912, Praha 1996 (CS)
Rakušanová, M., Bytosti odnikud, Academia 2008 (CS)
Rousová, H., Český neoklasicismus 20. let I. a II. díl, Praha 1985, 1989 (CS)
Rousová, H. (ed.), Konec avantgardy? Od mnichovské dohody ke komunistickému převratu. Řevnice a Praha 2011 (CS)
Rousová, H. Mezery v historii 1890-1938: polemický duch střední Evropy: Němci, Židé, Češi. Praha 1994 (CS)
Ševčík J.; Morganová P.; Dušková D. (eds.), České umění 1938-1989, programy, kritické texty, dokumenty, Praha 2001 (CS)
Švácha, R.; Platovská, M. (eds.): Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1939-1958. Praha 2005 (1 díl) (CS)
Švestka, J. (ed.), Český kubismus 1909-1925, Stuttgart 1991 (CS)
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- Programme Bachelor's
branch AEN , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AVI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AMU , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch APE , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch ATD , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AM2 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AM3 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AS2 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AKG , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AM1 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AGD1 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AS1 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AGD2 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch AIN , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch APD , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's
branch BIT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
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2. Expressive, cubist-expressive, cubist, symbolist tendencies, artist grous - Osma, Skupina výtvarných umělců, Sursum, Umělecká Beseda.
3. Reconstitution of the art scene after WWI. Tvrdošíjní Group.
4. Styles and movements in the 1920s Neo-classicism, poetism, Devětsil, artificialism, landscape painting, official scene.
5. Styles and movements of the 1930s. Abstraction, surrealism.
6. Czech sculpture of the first half of the 20th century.