DU2682 On different levels of reality

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Barbora Balážová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 17:30–19:05 K23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the lectures and small demonstrations the students will identified different tools, theoretically and practically as well, which helped in transcription of the seen reality into the art of the Early Modern period. A tool could be understand not only as a process figuratively but also as a tool or instrument literally. These lectures will be targeted to the research of the human eye as a phenomenon; to its perfection on one, and to its trickiness on the other hand. The artists of the Early Modern period, in which a mimesis was the alfa and omega of their intentions, were experimenting in several ways how to rewrite the reality into 2D mediums; they experimented with scientific discoveries, especially in mathematics, geometry, physics and anatomy, and included them into their praxis. Thanks to the connection between the science and art many experimental artworks were created, which sometime jumped over time or prepared a way to the contemporary things (for instance the dataprojector/beamer). Also, in the Early Modern period several manuals were created and they could help in our construction of the art history (Andrea Pozzo and the quadratura painting), sometime is our reading of artworks only a pure deduction (Jan Vermeer van Delf and the camera obscura) or, a visionary „Jules Verne’s“ fiction created several centuries later (Athanasius Kircher and the laterna magica).
Syllabus
  • Eye and the Seeing in the Early Modern Period
  • Perspective in the Renaissance and Its Construction
  • Perspective in the Baroque Art and Its Construction
  • Anamorphic Art and Quadratura Painting
  • Mirror
  • Camera Obscura
  • Laterna Magica
Literature
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon Press, 1994. ISBN 071483243X. info
Teaching methods
lectures and small demonstrations
Assessment methods
an essay, the oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
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