FF:DU2381 Abstract art - Course Information
DU2381 Abstract art: contexts, forms, meanings
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 14:00–15:40 K23
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- Abstraction is considered one of the main contributions of 20th century modern art. The course covers its genesis and the stimuli from which artists drew (ornament, music, spiritual teachings, science, mathematics and geometry). The primary focus will be on European and Czech art of the first half of the 20th century, not omitting later overlaps to the present.
- Learning outcomes
- essay, oral presentation of the selected topic
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction; 2. Genesis; 3. The Question of Vision and Physiology; 4. Colour; 5. Line; 6. Ornament; 7. Spiritual Doctrine and Science; 8. Music; 9. Automatism and expression; 10. Geometry and combinatorics
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- essay, oral presentation on a given topic
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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