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Introduction to Art and Culture II

Class at Faculty of Education |
OB2321013

Syllabus

Contents (syllabus): Main principles in the ancient and medieval visual arts - the solution of dwelling problems, space, a relationship to sacrality, figurative and non-figurative painting, plasticity of sculpture.

Keywords: the visual arts, ancient, medieval, space, plasticity, sacrality, painting, scultpture, architecture.

Annotation

First civilizations: art culture and ancient art in the beginning of human being. Sumer, Mezopotámie, Egypt. Bronze Age and

Iron Age in Ëuropean and out of Europe cultures. Minois and Mykenic art, antique period, early Greece and influence of them for art culture of the rest of Europe and of the culture in the Czech territory. Helenism, Etruscan and Roman art and culture. Art of the Christian antique. Early Middle Ages ? before Romanic culture and art: benedictine, Carolingian, Otonic renaissance, Romanic culture in the Europe and in Czech. Gothic and origin of the Gothic, stylistic streams, phases and changes. Art of the Far East, Middle and South America.

Ideological, economic and religionistic aspects and roles of them in the origin and changes of the art culture and fine art.