Preparatory courses for the 1st year
Preparatory Course in Graphics
Asst. Prof. Robert Makar, MFA, ArtD.
The course creates the basis for the realization of a work in individual graphic techniques. Study drawings are realized according to a model with emphasis on the composition of the whole area. A further aspect is the creative realization of the study drawing and transposition of the drawing into a black and white area.
Main subject – STUDIO (practice based creative studio work)
Studio of Graphics
Prof. Róbert Jančovič, MFA
BA level: The study requires the acquisition of a broad range of artistic means of expression. Tuition in the studio is based on fact that each student creates his/her own content programme and creative language. Besides topics assigned, there is also specified an individual assignment after taking account of the type of a student. The broad scale of viewing the world and dialogue with it: rational, emotional, expressive, etc. are also respected.
MA level: In the framework of the graduate study the studio accepts the priority of a student’s individual efforts for his/her own statement. The aim of graduate study is to also create room for independent thinking, putting questions, seeking answers, familiarizing oneself with the breadth of thought and opinion movements, trends (past as well as present). There is also created the possibility for study and familiarisation with extra-artistic fields, scientific (biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, astronomy, etc).
Studio of Free Graphics and Illustration
Prof. Dušan Kállay, MFA
BA level: The student is taught all graphic techniques and at the same time uses the possibilities of experiment in searching for new graphical procedures in book creation, ranging from simple artistic book projects through to more demanding processing of literary text, from the anatomy of a book to its final form. The result of this is a diploma thesis in the form of a bibliophilic rendition of the project, using original graphic techniques. The tutor’s communication with the students takes place either through joint assignments, mainly at the beginning of the study, or later through individual assignments according to the student’s profiling.
MA level: The student is assigned tasks on an individual basis with the intention of solving a project on his/her own in all relations so that the student is prepared in the 6th year to create a ready book object, an illustrated book, a book toy, a bibliophilie, or a graphical cycle inspired by a literature. In the case of a graduate diploma thesis this as a rule concerns a free interpretation of a classic in world literature, or author’s project.
Studio of Free and Colour Graphics
Assoc. Prof. Vojtech Kolenčík, MFA
BA level: Undergraduate study is considered in the studio of free and colour graphics as a period of the progressive acquisition of primary creative means and principles of free expression. Knowledge and spheres relating to the current happenings and transformations in the society, student’s orientation in cultural and art transformation of history as well as in the current happenings in the study field – graphics – are important. From the formal side emphasis in the first years of study is placed on the use of colour in graphics as the basic creative means of expression. Exploration is made in the possibilities of the print, print forms, matrices; creativity is supported in colour as well as form variability, as well as the combination of classic graphic techniques and new techniques. A natural part of the studio tuition is the use of computer programmes and creative thinking in the computer medium.
MA level: Graduate study is significantly individualised in the studio. The development of experience and knowledge of students is continued and the individual orientation and gradual independence of students is supported. Attention is focused on the creation of 3D artefacts, multiples, with the use of a graphical medium.
Compulsory vocational subjects
Drawing
Asst. Prof. Štefan Oslej, MFA
Drawing according to reality and drawing reality gives rise to such practical creative experience that cannot be replaced by any theoretical study. It is experience of composing, modelling, proportions and work in a larger format.
In the 3rd year the tuition develops two principles:
- from the real model to one’s own imagination and the more general creative principle
- from the impulse of one’s own individual imagination to looking at reality
Graphic techniques
Asst. Prof. Peter Augustovič, MFA
The aim of the study is the mastering and creative use of classical graphic techniques. The student is familiarised theoretically with technological procedures, with the practical realisation and mastering of basic graphic techniques – gravure printing, relief printing, flat-bed printing, silkscreen printing.
Computer Graphics Programs
Mgr. Miroslav Prekop
The subject introduces students to computer graphics programs and their potential application in graphic work.
Anatomy
MUDr. Ladislav Šabo
2 semesters| 1. | The importance of teaching anatomy for artists. |
| 2. | What is the position of man in nature? (Shaping of the body, bioethical problems. |
| 3. | General construction plan of the human body, morphological laws in constructing the body of higher organisms, on the asymmetry of living systems, sexual dimorphism. Functional and causal anatomy. |
| 4. | Building blocks of the human body: tissues, skeleton, muscles and sensory organs. |
| 5. | Skeleton: growth and renewal of bones. Osteoporosis. Connection of bones, types of joints, types of movement. Muscles: composition, arrangement of muscles, mechanics of motional apparatus. Nervous system, principles of managing movement and maintaining the body’s balance. |
| 6. | Human types: Psychological and somatic. Contemporary anthropological opinions on the origin of man, developmental (evolution) theory, emergence of bodily signs influenced by the environment. Basic types of race, racism, eugenics. |
| 7. | In what does a person’s beauty lie: assessing appearance and the search for the model figure. Beauty: a cultural convention, or objective biological phenomenon? Theories and canons of proportion. |
| 8. | The body at rest and in motion, basic terms in the mechanics of bodily movement. Physiological and conventional postures. Standing, counterpoise, lying, sitting, kneeling, hanging. Running, walking. |
| 9. | The effect of age and gender on body forms. |
| 10. | Torso: spine (vertebrae, sacrum, rump). Connection, base. Form, mobility, plastic significance of the spine. Chest: ribs, breastbone. Connection of ribs, intercostal muscles, diaphragm. Breathing movements. Shapes of the chest. Back, back muscles, shape. Breasts. Abdomen: muscles (rectal, exterior scalene, internal scalene, tranversal abdomenal muscle). Function and movement of abdomenal muscles. Shape of the abdomen. Sexual organs. Bottom of the pelvis. |
| 11. | Other topics (ordered according to the scheme: introduction, bones and their connections, muscles, mobility, shapes) are the upper and lower limbs, neck, head (with a description of the sensory organs and the basis. Information on the brain as the most essential human feature. Bodily expressions of emotions, facial expressions). |
Výberový predmet pre Katedru grafiky a iných médií
Rytecké techniky a známková tvorba
doc. Martin Činovský, akad. mal., ArtD.
Predmet poskytne znalosti z oblasti základov výtvarných grafických a technologických postupov pri tvorbe cenín s dôrazom na poštovú grafiku. K problémom riešeným v rámci predmetu patria výtvarné návrhy cenín (poštové známky, akcie, obligácie, vkladové listy…) od výtvarného návrhu cez ryteckú rozkresbu až po realizáciu v rytine.
Predmet je dvojsemestrálny, môžu si ho zapísať študenti bakalárskeho štúdia (2.-4. roč.), vždy v zimnom a nadväzujúcom letnom semestri. Ak si predmet zapíše menej ako 6 študentov, predmet sa ruší. Dolná hranica je 6
