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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304OB1 credit 2 English winter

Subject guarantor

Petr KOS

Name of lecturer(s)

Petr KOS

Department

The subject provides Department of Cinematography

Contents

The course focuses on the analysis of the formal components of painting in the history of Western painting. The main focus will be on the reading of composition, the use of color, and the representation of light. The historical context will not be neglected, otherwise the intentions of the creator of the work could not be revealed in depth.

The course consists of lectures and seminars. The lectures will take place in the classroom and the seminars in front of the originals in the galleries.

1.Thinking with the Image

Introduction to the Course

  1. Medieval Painting and Other Forms of the Image

Book Painting, Bayeux Tapestry, Giotto

3.Seminar: the NG collection of medieval art

Master of the Vyšebrod Altarpiece, Master Theodoric, Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece

  1. Renaissance I.

15th century Italy and the Transalpine Renaissance: Massacio, Paolo Ucello, Piero della Francesca, Benozzo Gozolli, Fra Angelico, Sandro Boticelli, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden

5.Renaissance II.

16th century Italy: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian

  1. Seminar: the NG Collection of European Art
  2. Baroque I.

Caravaggio and the Roman Baroque

Learning outcomes

The aim is to trace the tools of image construction and their transformations on the examples of important works of European and world painting.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None

Literature

Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception

Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking

Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Centre

Milena Bartlová, Skutečná přítomnost

Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience

Michael Baxandall, Patterns of Intention

John Berger, Způsoby vidění

James Elkins, Proč lidé pláčou před obrazy

Matila C. Ghyka, Zlaté číslo

Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision

Mario Livio, Zlatý řez

Alberto Manguel, Čtení obrazů

Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form

Miroslav Petříček, Myšlení obrazem

David Summers, Real Spaces

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded for submission and presentation of the required study and group exercises before the summary commission.

Note

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Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
room 230
Room No. 230
(Lažanský palác)
KOS P.
10:40–12:15
(lecture parallel1)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 10:40–12:15 Petr KOS Room No. 230
Lažanský palác		 lecture parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans