About Images 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304OB2 exam 3 English summer

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. Baroque II

Rembrandt, Hals, Rubens

  1. Seminar: Karel Škréta, Petr Brandl, Franz Anton Maulbertsch

10.Enlightenment, Classicism, Romanticism

J.-L. David, J.A.D. Ingres, F. Goya, C.D. Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner

  1. Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

12.Avant-garde I.

Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism

13: Klimt, Schiele, Picasso, Kubišta, Filla, etc.

  1. postwar painting and image

Rothko, Pollock, Kiefer, Richter, etc.

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:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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 LAZ-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

The subject is a part of the following study plans