Preparatory courses for the 1st year
Preparatory courses for students are preliminary defined and cannot be changed.Preparatory Course in Photography
Asst. Prof. Jana Hojstričová, MFA
On this course students are familiarised with the photograph as an art medium. They acquire basic skills, knowledge and abilities from photography language, technological procedures of the photograph creation and from work in the darkroom. Emphasis is placed on the thought, creative and technical handling of the assigned topic.
Preparatory Course in Painting
Asst. Prof. Michaela Rázusová - Nociarová
The course offers the introduction to the medium of painting, examining its various aspects and stimulating independent thought in this medium. In the first part of the course students concentrate on a painting of reality (a still-life, objects) The live model study is an important part of the learning process. Among other the emphasis is placed on the issue of light and colour – two of the most important means of expression in realistic painting. The student is expected to take an individual approach to a thematic focus.
Preparatory Course in Sculpture II
Assoc. Prof. Jozef Barinka, MFA
Students are familiarised with the anatomy of the human body, its sculptural application in clay and plaster. Viewing of space, mass and shape, drawing preparation. The student learns the basic values of plastic and spatial viewing through the sculptural substantiation of mass, which he/she transports from a plane (drawing) into space.
Preparatory course in Painting II
Mgr. art. Xénia Bergerová
The Preparatory Course in Painting II is drawn up from the aspect of learning the language of a painting in a broader historical – vertical as well as horizontal – contexts of world painting, from primeval ages to the issues of the 20th century.
Main subject – STUDIO (practice based creative studio work)
Painting Preparation Studio for Restorers
Asst. Prof. Xénia Bergerová, ArtD.
The course introduces the medium of painting from the aspect of examining its various aspects and stimulating analytical thought of a medium. Students concentrate on a realistic painting study (mostly still-life, the essence of which is an artificially-created microcosm). Emphasis is placed on the issue of light – one of the most important means of expression in fine art and a special artistic phenomenon in painting. Examining light cannot be separated from the issue of colour in which the light is inherently contained. The plan of the subject is the conceptual, technical and technological construction of a picture and functions of its individual elements of expression, understanding of a painting in all its genres, in its historical development present through the unique personal experience of the student.
Sculptural Preparation Studio for Restorers
doc. Jozef Barinka, akad. soch.
Students are familiarised with the anatomy of the human body, its sculptural application in clay and plaster. Viewing of space, mass and shape, drawing preparation. The study is focused on knowing and building one’s own view of the development of sculpture, its historical classification up to the present.
Studio of Restoration of Stone Sculptures and Stone Elements of Architecture
Assoc. Prof. Jaroslav Kuba, MFA
BA level: The study is focused on understanding differences in the history of applied stone materials, their different structure and resistance to weathering. Works are restored under the supervision and in 23 cooperation with monument authorities pursuant to the law. Entrusted works are mostly restored in the antique style, according to the approved intention, inventionally on the basis of documentation and analogies additionally modelled in through reconstruction. Reconstructions are reviewed by the responsible experts from the monument authority.
MA level: In the graduate study the essence of the orientation does not change, work is only and always on originals. Greater independence is required not only in creative style, in presentation of the work, but also in the application itself of technological and artistic-historical solutions in the issues of the work.
Studio of Conservation and Restoration of Wooden Sculpture
Asst. Prof. Ján Gazdík, MFA
The concept is based on the requirement for a highly qualified expert – restorer of artistic and historical monuments who must be prepared to manage in all aspects even the most demanding tasks. The preparation for requirements conceived in this manner requires a particularly demanding form of study because the spectrum of activities relating to performing restoration demands knowledge from the field of the history of art, natural sciences, chemistry as well as technology, which the restorer applies always on an individual basis, specifically according to the requirements of the issue solved. Therefore there is also a requirement for aesthetical feeling, creativity in the sense of the achieving the maximum accord with the author who created the work. Important, too, is also the ability to manually transform all one’s imaginations and ideas into a material substance. Therefore the need to master art as a craft is more than justified.
Studio of the Restoration of Artworks Created on Paper
Assoc. Prof. Boris Kvasnica, MFA
BA level: Students are taught the starting points that determine the restoration process. These are the philosophy and methodology of the monument’s protection, restoration research of the work and the whole process of restoration assessment of the monument which is a synthesis of a complex of technical and creative procedures. Students continue in a gradual deepening of the knowledge acquired with an emphasis on the creative side of the fine art work, on respecting the original and on the basis of their own knowledge assess in their preparation prior to the restoration all aspects which form the work itself.
MA level: The study is enriched by the basics of photograph restoration. The main emphasis is placed on the creative side of restoration and formation of the student’s own aesthetic opinion. The methodology of the studio training is based, similarly as in the case of the undergraduate study, on individual resolution of tasks and the tutor’s approach to the student.
Studio of the Conservation and Restoration of Mural Painting,
Assoc. Prof. Vladimír Plekanec, MFA
BA level: The study programme in the first stage of tuition is oriented on the restoration research of a wall painting while highlighting its interconnection to the architecture. In the second stage of the training attention is focused on the restoration itself of a wall painting. During the semester the training takes place alternately in restoring a specific monument in the field and in the Academy’s studio where technological exercises and technical copies are realised.
MA level: In the graduate study emphasis is placed on the issue of conceptually more demanding restoration projects where the student has to show the ability of his/her own path in resolving complex technical and creative problems connected with the restoration process.
Restoration Studio of Hanging Picture and Panel Painting
Asst. Prof. Danica Stojkovičová
BŠ: Bakalárskym štúdiom poslucháč nadobudne schopnosti uskutočniť reštaurátorský výskum /nedeštruktívne metódy/, posúdiť alternatívy reštaurátorského postupu, na základe výskumu definovať reštaurátorský zámer, zvoliť najoptimálnejší spôsob riešenie konkrétneho zadania /so zameraním na maľbu na plátne/. Vyžaduje sa odborné praktické zvládnutie najzákladnejších reštaurátorských úkonov, nácvik jednotlivých zručností v simulovaných situáciách, práca s farbou – retuše /napodobivá, lokálna, neutrálna/
MŠ: V magisterskom štúdiu štúdium pokračuje riešenim zložitej a rozsiahlej problematike týkajúcej sa reštaurovania malieb /podľa zadania/. Popri tradičných technikách a materiáloch sa štúdium zaoberá súčasnými technológiami vo výtvarnej tvorbe, teoretickým i praktickým osvojovaním širokej problematiky tradičných i moderných metód reštaurovania a zoznamovaním sa s problematikou reštaurovania umenia 20. storočia. K vybratým diplomovým prácam do 11. a 12. semestra sa uskutočňuje reštaurátorský výskum.
Compulsory vocational subjects
Drawing
Asst. Prof. Dávid Čársky, MFA
In the 2nd – 4th years students work according to a live model. The whole 3rd year is devoted exclusively to the study of the figure, where mainly the second semester is suitable for expanding motives by figural composition. At the conclusion of the 3rd year experimenting also with other less traditional materials and searching for one’s own creative expression is legitimate, nonetheless the essential starting point is an appropriately mastered figural drawing. These tendencies to individual expression are supported to an even greater degree in the 4th year. The fifth year provides students the possibility of an individual programme with periodic consultations.
Basics of Painting for Restorers of Paintings and Sculptures,
Asst. Prof. Xénia Bergerová, MFA
The study is conceived from the aspect of learning the language of a painting work in the broader historical – vertical as well as horizontal – contexts of world painting, from primeval ages to the issues of the 20th century. The course is a targeted education towards expertise and empathy for a broad register of style principles and subjective expressive variety of painting.
Painting for Restorers of Paintings
Asst. Prof. Xénia Bergerová, MFA
The programme for developing individual and the most acute problematic spheres, in particular however the issue of figural painting. Allusions to various principles of construction (Renaissance, Baroque, hyperbolism of colour). Comparative studies – portrait, detail. Single-figure compositions. Genres: landscape, figure painting, etc.
Conceptual Artistic Preparation
Asst. Prof. Dominik Turanský, MFA
The subject focuses on the relations of painting, drawing and sculpture to the issue of restoration. The preparation teaches students skills with materials (wood, stone, gold, leather, velveteen…) in individual painting techniques. The student learns the basic information on iconographic techniques, panel paintings as well as information on the nature of painting techniques.
Painting Technology
Asst. Prof. Dominik Turanský, MFA, akad. mal., as. Mgr. art. Ján Hromada, as. Mgr. art. Jana Balážiková
The aim of the subject is for the student to improve personal painting genres on selected problems according to a recommended and individual programme. The subject also includes study in retouching.
Graphic techniques
Asst. Prof. Peter Augustovič, MFA
The aim of the study is for the student to master graphical techniques and their use in the field of restoring paper. The practical rendering and mastering of basic graphical techniques.
Modelling for Sculpture Restorers
Assoc. Prof. Jozef Barinka, MFA
The aim of the subject is for the student to improve in modelling according to a recommended and individual programme. The study of sculptural preparation is focused on knowing and building one’s own view of the development of sculpture, its historical classification up to the present in its stages of development.
History and Theory of Restoration
Asst. Prof. PhDr. Ingrid Ciulisová, CSc.
The aim of the series of lectures is to give an overview of the history of individual profile restoration schools in Europe, primarily Italian and Czechoslovak restorer schools. The lectures then move on to introduce the issue of polemics and controversies in restoration with regard to significant restoration undertakings in the 19th and 20th centuries and renowned world galleries and museums.
Art History Seminar (medieval period)
Asst. Prof. Žáry
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Art History Seminar (baroque period)
Medvecký, MA
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Interpretation Seminar
Asst. Prof. PhDr. Ingrid Ciulisová, CSc.
The seminar aims to explain the practical impact and influence of individual historical conservation approaches to the practice of restoration, to highlight their historical validity, ambiguity and how they were alternative and thereby deepen student’s ability to formulate a restoration objective.
The Science of Wood
MSc. Daniela Cebecauerová
Chemistry of conservation of paper
MCs. Alena Maková
Prednášky a cvičenia zamerané na zvládnutie technologických postupov pri výrobe a reštaurovaní papiera. Predmet obsahuje informácie o škodlivých a jedovatých látkach používaných pri reštaurovaní, práca s organickými rozpúšťadlami. Spôsoby výroby papiera, jeho vlastnosti, druhy.
Chemistry of Photography
MCs. Jozef Hanus
Princípy formovania obrazu – Svetlo a hmota. Chemická degradácia fotografického obrazu. Fotografická chémia – čiernobielej fotografie. Fotografická chémia – farebnej fotografie. Chémia fotomechanických procesov a procesov nevyužívajúcich striebro ako obrazotvorný materiál. Analytické techniky využívané v reštaurátorskej praxi. Spracovanie a korekcia obrazu fotografie v počítači. Reprografické techniky.
