Painting

professors: Jiří Krtička, David Jedlička

The subject of Painting attempts to conceptually encompass both technical knowledge and fluency in the discipline, as well as the more difficult superstructure dealing with the interpretational level of the work, its visuality on the ordinary level, and the philosophical, psychological and social enjambements of the work. In the subject of painting, we prefer an individual approach to the student, based on the principal of reciprocal communication.
The discipline of painting can be divided into individual phases of formal perfection according to the painting technique (still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and figural compositions), and individual projects and thematic assignments with a larger emphasis on the content level.
From the didactic perspective, on top of practical skills students acquire a theoretical knowledge, using signs, symbols, artistic stylisation, composition, decomposition, juxtaposition. Students can make use of these proven observations in didactic and pedagogic disciplines, or directly in their student teaching.
In the framework of instruction the student is confronted with the contemporary development of art and actual tendencies in the discipline.
In later years there is an emphasis laid on more complex artistic work, starting from the accumulation of foundations and finishing with a resultant painting cycle.
In the framework of individual tasks, routine work takes advantage of other and new media image material as launching points for painting.