Course: Graphic Art II

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Course title Graphic Art II
Course code KVP/581
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Málik Jaroslav, MgA.
  • Kahuda Klokočková Lenka, MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Teaching packet - Defining basic parameters of the project (content, structure, form, presentation). Concept, expectation, judgment, scale, practice, experience, record, transfer, reach. 2. Teaching packet - Exploration of expression possibilities of lithographic techniques in the context of contemporary visual culture (technology, expression, overlap). Trace, structure, imprint. 3. Teaching packet - Working with the print form (space, body, contact, media boundaries). Choice, stone, procedure, thinking via medium, creation, courage, input, transfer, concentration, gesture, touch, rhythm, experiment, error, chemical processes, pause. 4. Teaching packet - Print (process, physical act, repetition, substance, haptics). Layers, colours, motion, interval, chance / surprise, edition. 5. Teaching packet - Presentation of the final form of the project (adjustment, installation, performance, projection, perception, reflection, interpretation, discussion). Space, time, light, action, communication, confrontation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The seminar introduces the students into the issues of modern graphics, and the art of the book, printing, and paper. The students will learn about technological principles of individual techniques of original printing graphics, about the structure and principles of creating and arranging a book, about kinds, classification, and way of manufacturing paper, the principle of creating a digitalized image, and working with it. The course makes the students realize direct connections of the learnt principles and the printing industry. The seminar also provides an outline of historical development of individual branches. Based on their own choice, the students will try a specific graphic technique in an individual authorial task. The course concentrates on deepening technical skills, and especially on profiling of the student's individuality, and his/her artistic opinion. It is focused on analysis of the role of graphics in contemporary visual arts and design. The seminar tries to seek for new and creative ways of thinking in graphic creation, to connect classical and new technological possibilities, and to break away from dogmas.
Based on the knowledge and skills they have acquired in the seminar, the student is able to implement their own comprehensive original project in lithography technique. The student has a notion of the theory of author graphics, taking into account lithography technique. The student will develop their knowledge of practical principles, specifics, and also limits of lithography technique and is able to further apply them in relation to their own branch of study and discipline. The student is able to comprehend individual steps when implementing their own original project in screen printing technique, to plan and determine the timing of individual stages of the project to be realized (selecting the theme, thematic sketches, technical sketches, pre-printing preparation, emballage, and defence of the project). The student masters different methods of pre-printing preparation for screen printing technique (both the "analogue" and "digital" procedure to prepare material for printing). The student is able to participate (together with their expert tutor) in printing their own project. The student can clarify and defend both the content and the formal shape of their project, to explain basic ways and principles of the solution, and to suggest how their work is to be presented.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Realization, project
Recommended literature
  • Časopisy. Art, Art in America, Atelier, Baseline, Detail, Eye, Flash Art, Graphis, Grapheion, Kunstforum, Labyrint, Parkett, Printmaking Today, RR. Shots.
  • Devon, M. Lagattuta, Hamon, R. Tamarind Techniques for Fine Art Lithograph. Tamarind Institute, 2009. ISBN 978-0810972421.
  • Frídlová, Vránková, O.; Kraus V. Litografie k potěše a užitku. Praha: NTM, 1996.
  • Huges, A.; Vernon Morris, H. The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2008. ISBN 978-0811862288.
  • Krejča, A. Techniky grafického umění. ARTIA, Praha. 1981.
  • Lutterer, V. Litografie. VŠUP, Praha, 1984.
  • Machalický, J. Půlstoletí proměn grafické tvorby. SGČU Hollar, Praha, 2002.
  • Marco, J. O grafice. Mladá fronta, Praha. 1981.
  • Michálek, O. Magie otisku - Grafické techniky a technologie tisku. Barrister & Principal , Brno, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7485-098-1.
  • Rambousek, J. Litografie a ofset. nakladatelství V. Poláčka, 1948.
  • Sedlářová, J. a kol. Litografie aneb Kamenopis. UMPRUM, 1996.
  • Senefelder, A. Senefelder on Lithography: The Classic 1819 Treatise. New York, Dover Publications, 2005. ISBN 978-0486445571.
  • Stromquist, A. Simple Screenprinting: Basic Techniques & Creative Projects. New York: Lark Books, 2005. ISBN 978-1579906641.


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