Course detail

A Survey of Czech Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century

FaVU-1CU20-LAcad. year: 2011/2012

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic phenomenons and personalities of the Czech XXth Century Art.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the history of the Czech coutries and their culture.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Test

Course curriculum

1. Czech art of the 1940s, art groups and tendencies during the WWII, postwar illusions, socialist art versus underground.
2. Post-stalinist "warming up" , art groups 1957 - 1969, "tame modernity" Brusel 1958 exhibition, hard edge art underground - informel since 1965.
3. Concretism as an opposition, Czech New Figurative Paintig of the 60s.
4. 1968. Post - occupation shock, communist "normalisation" of the 70s, end of the art scene. Action art, happening, performances (including rock) as an antidotum.
5. Re-constitution of the art scene in 70s and 80s. Postsurrealism, hyperrealism, abstraction, direct realism.
6. Semi-official scene, rock and jazz music, art exhibitions, publications under the aegis of the (lately banned) music society.
7. New wave of art exhibitions of new generations between 1980 - 1985.
8. Postmodern discontinuity of the postmodern "Stubborn generation" after 1985.
9. Reconstitution of art scene in the end of 80´s, Velvet revolution 1989 as the end of 40 years of political and cultural totalities.
10. The lost world of cultural semi - undergrounds of the 70´s and 80´s in the era of the so-called "normalization". Official art. Artists in prison. the unofficial scene and its fight againts oblivion.Editions. The Jazz section. Local scenes, samizdats. "Home art." "Magical realism." Theodor Pištěk, the renewed surrealist group.
11. New wave in music and art - 1980 - 1985. Semi-official exhibitions and the possibilities of their "legitimiyation." The middle and young generations.
12. 1985 - 1989 - the Postmodern generation; discontinuity, expressions, irony.
13. Local scenes of the 1980s - Brno, Olomouc, undeclared artistic groups. The return of the political symbolics in 1988 and 1989.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Orientation in the basic phenomena and creative persons of the arts in Czech Countries.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Adriana Primusová, Marie Klimešová, 1952-Skupina Máj 57, úsilí o uměleckou svobodu na přelomu 50. a 60. let, Praha 2007
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění V. (1939 - 1958) , Academia 2006
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI. (1958 - 2000), Academia 2007
Marcela Macharáčková, Brnenská osmdesátá, Brno 2010
Nová encylopedie českého výtvarného umění, Praha 1995
Petr Wittlich, České sochařství ve 20.století : 1890-1945, Praha 1978

Recommended reading

Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor (ed. V. Havránek), GHMP 1999
Český informel (ed. M. Nešlehová), GHMP 1991
Eva Petrová a kol., Skupina 42, GHMP - Akropolis 1998
Eva Petrová, Nová figurace, GVU Litoměřice 1993
František Šmejkal, České imaginativní umění, Rudolfinum 1996
František Šmejkal, Skupina Ra, GHMP 1988
Freancesco Augusto Razetto, Ottaviano Maria Razetto, Terezie Petišková, Genny Di Bert, Socialistický realismus Československo, Nadační fond eleutheria, Praha 2008
Jaroslav Sekera, Josef Hlaváček, Poesie racionality. Konstruktivní tendence v českém výtvarném umění 60. let, ČMVU 1994
Jindřich Chalupecký, Nové umění v Čechách, Praha 1994
Jiří Olič,Tvrdohlaví 1987-1999, Silver Screen 1999
Jiří Šetlík, Šedá cihla 1978 - 1991, Klatovy - Klenová 1991
Josef Alan a kol., Alternativní kultura, Příběh české společnosti 1945 - 1989, Praha 2001
Lenka Byžovská, Vojtěch Lahoda, Karel Srp - Czech Art 1900 - 1990, Prague City Gallery, 1990
Luděk Novák, Nová figurace, 1970.
Mahulena Nešlehová, Poselství jiného výrazu. Pojetí "informelu" v českém umění 50. a prví poloviny 60. let, 1997
Marie Klimešová, Miroslav Petříček, Roky ve dnech, České umění 1945 - 1957, Arbor vitae, Praha 2010
Ohniska znovuzrození. České umění 1956-1963 (ed. M. Judlová), GHMP - ÚDU AVČR 1994
Richard Adam, Alena Pomajzlová, Jiří Přibáň, 1984 - 1995, Česká malba generace 80. let, Wannieck Gallery Brno, 2010
Umění zastaveného času. Česká výtvarná scéna 1969-1985, ČMVU 1996
Vlastimi Tetiva, Miloslav Kounek, České malířství a sochařství 2.Pol.20. století, AJG1991

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch ATD , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AKG , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGD1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AIN , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGD2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APD , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AVI , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AEN , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AMU , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APE , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Syllabus

1. Czech art of the 1940s, art groups and tendencies during the WWII, postwar illusions, socialist art versus underground.
2. Post-stalinist "warming up" , art groups 1957 - 1969, "tame modernity" Brusel 1958 exhibition, hard edge art underground - informel since 1965.
3. Concretism as an opposition, Czech New Figurative Paintig of the 60s.
4. 1968. Post - occupation shock, communist "normalisation" of the 70s, end of the art scene. Action art, happening, performances (including rock) as an antidotum.
5. Re-constitution of the art scene in 70s and 80s. Postsurrealism, hyperrealism, abstraction, direct realism.
6. Semi-official scene, rock and jazz music, art exhibitions, publications under the aegis of the (lately banned) music society.
7. New wave of art exhibitions of new generations between 1980 - 1985.
8. Postmodern discontinuity of the postmodern "Stubborn generation" after 1985.
9. Reconstitution of art scene in the end of 80´s, Velvet revolution 1989 as the end of 40 years of political and cultural totalities.
10. Lost world of cultural semi - undergrounds of the 70´s and 80´s,