Course: Between Art, Applied Art and Design I

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Course title Between Art, Applied Art and Design I
Course code KDT/FU025
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dytrtová Kateřina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hejný Kryštof, Mgr.
Course content
1. Defining the matters. Art, applied art, design. 2. Ornament, decor, rhythm. Intersection of art and science. 3. Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau. 4. Modernistic prohibition of ornament (A. Loos) and its consequences. 5. Artěl. Art for every day. 6. Crystalline ornament, ornament as a construction (Pavel Janák, Henry van der Velde). 7. Abstraction in relation to the theory of ornament. 8. Ceramics. Captured by handicraft or space for art? Notable personalities of Czech ceramics. 9. Glass. Captured by handicraft or space for art? Notable personalities of Czech glass. 10. Sculpture vs. vase. Eggs and cocoons. Organic morphology and intuitive procedures in artistic creation. 11. Current conception of handicraft and applied art in visual art of the present. 12. Presentation of semestral works. 13. Presentation of semestral works.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course will focus on mutual overlaps and permeability between art, applied art and design. It will pursue the specific role of handicrafts, decoration and ornament, the phenomena intentionally displaced and isolated by modernism. The course will explore mainly the disciplines currently excluded from the sphere of so-called high art due to their technical difficulty or mere reference to craftsmanship (ceramics, porcelain, textiles, jewelry, and others). Their specific position will be demonstrated both in a retrospective view and in the contemporary artistic production.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • Brožková, Helena; Fronek, Jiří (ed.). Artěl: umění pro všední den 1908-1935. Praha: Uměleckoprůmyslové museum, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7101-081-4.
  • FAHR-BECKER, Gabriele; TASCHEN, Angelika (ed.). Wiener Werkst?tte: 1903-1932. Köln: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 978-8228-3773-3.
  • Hubatová-Vacková, Lada. Tiché revoluce uvnitř ornamentu: studie z dějin uměleckého průmyslu a dekorativního umění v letech 1880-1930. Praha, VŠUP, 2011. ISBN 978-80-86863-18-4.
  • KOLESÁR, Zdeno. Kapitoly z dějin designu. Praha, 2009. ISBN 978-80-86863-28-3.
  • LANGHAMER, Antonín a Martin HLUBUČEK. Jaroslav Brychta: spoluzakladatel a tvůrce železnobrodského skla. Železný Brod: Město Železný Brod, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6737-5.
  • Rada, Pravoslav a Milouš Růžička. Pravoslav Rada: keramická plastika. Hluboká nad Vltavou: Pravoslav Rada, 2003. ISBN 80-85857-66-9.


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