On Pictures 2
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 304EOP2 | Z | 1 | 2T | English | summer |
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Name of lecturer(s)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The aim of this class is to show tools and means and its changes in the history of picture making on important and influential examples of Western painting.
Mode of study
The course combines in-class lectures and seminars. Seminars will take place in galleries in front of original paintings.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
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Course contents
The course focuses on an analysis of pictorial forms in the history of Western Painting. Key elements of such an analysis are the understanding of a composition, proportions, use of colour and use of light. The historical context of specific pictures cannot be neglected completely otherwise it would be impossible to follow artistic intention and will therefore be presented as well.
Course Schedule:
1.Baroque II
Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens
2.Seminar: Czech Baroque Painting
3.Enlightenment, Classicism, Romanticism
J.-L. David, J.A.D. Ingres, F. Goya, C.D. Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner
4.Realism, Impressionism, Postimpressionism
5.Avant-garde I
Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Surrealism
6.Seminar: Modern Painting in National Gallery
Klimt, Schiele, Picasso, Kubišta, Filla
7.Postwar Painting
Rothko, Pollock, Kiefer, Richter
Recommended or required reading
Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking
Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Centre
Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience
Michael Baxandall, Patterns of Intention
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Matila C. Ghyka, The Golden number
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision
Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio
Alberto Manguel, Reading Pictures
Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
David Summers, Real Spaces
Assessment methods and criteria
Essay: Analysis of a selected painting
Participation in classes and seminars
Note
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Schedule for winter semester 2021/2022:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2021/2022:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Cinematography_1920 (required subject)
- Cinematography_3_2021 (required subject)