About Images 1
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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304OB1 | credit | 2 | English | winter |
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Name of lecturer(s)
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
- 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
- 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
- Seminar: the NG Collection of European Art
- 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.
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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
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Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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Thu | 10:40–12:15 | Petr KOS | Room No. 230 Lažanský palác |
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Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Cinematography - Master_2021 (Required subjects)
- Animation - Master_2021 (Required elective subjects)