Preparatory courses for the 1st year
Preparatory Course Sculpture I.,
Prof. Peter Roller, MFA
The course is oriented on the acquisition of the main practical and theoretical knowledge about the sculpture work. Individual assignments are technologically oriented on clay modelling, plaster casting and for using a wide range of other materials. The conceptual aspect of the course: the practice offers the skills and different approaches in completing the three dimensional fragments. The conceptual work of a student shifts from a starting point of understanding the reality of material to the own interpretation and creative spatial compositions on given theme.
Main subject – STUDIO (practice based creative studio work)
“A Flat Sculpture Included” – S.O.S (sculptures objectively subjective)
Assoc. Prof. Ján Hoffstädter, MFA
BA level: The studio develops the idea plane of information on the construction of a creative work, space, mass, shape, composition, contrast, the whole, detail, expression. Only through direct experience with traditional sculptural procedures (modelling 3D objects or relief and medals) and their variation, alongside the study level, the creativity is developed, seeking further possibilities of the corresponding expression of the idea (object, installation, land art, multimedia). Students get a simple, convergent or divergent topic allowing them to free their creative potential. It is supplemented by a series of short-term deadline assignments with the emphasis on the idea and dynamic solution.
MA level: Graduate study is linked to undergraduate study by increasing demands in the case of a complex solution of tasks assigned, or in seeking an artistic statement in a broader context of creative relations.
Sculpture in architecture and public space,
Asst. Prof. Patrik Kovačovský, MFA
BŠ: Študent získa vedomosti o práci s priestorom ako súčasťou konečnej inštalácie objektu alebo sochy, osvojí si základne postupy pri riešení vizuálnej a ideovej „stavby“ výtvarného diela. Študent musí bezprostredne reagovať na zvolený verejný priestor alebo vo vyššom ročníku na vybranú architektrúru. Naučí sa jasne zdôvodniť svoj ideový zámer a následne tvarové a priestorové riešenie. Ideové zdôvodnenie (kresba, print, manipulovaná fotografia, koláž). Študent musí bezprostredne reagovať na zvolenú architektúru. Je nútený jasne zdôvodniť svoj ideový zámer a rozhodnutie pracovať s vybraným priestorom budovy (interiér popr. exteriér) musí verbálne a najmä 2D vizuálne zdôvodniť následne tvarové a priestorové riešenie. Intervencia do architektúry (interiér alebo exteriér).
MŠ: Cieľom výučby v ateliéri je motivovať študenta k súčasnému a originálnemu prístupu k sochárskej problematike. Jednou z možností je aplikácia netradičných materiálov a médií do tvorivého procesu. Študentovi je však ponechaná sloboda výberu témy i materiálu pri realizácii vlastného diela. Výučba prebieha intenzívnymi diskusiami.
Compulsory vocational subjects
Drawing
Assoc. Prof. Miloš Boďa, MFA
(Figure Drawing for 1st – 4th year BA level)
The subject requires the manipulation of basic problems of the transformation of 3D space to a 2D space, typical for a classical drawing. Emphasis is placed on figure model drawing. The character of drawing is focused on handling the classic drawing procedures in building up composition, anatomy proportions, construction of space, and creation of form. The use of various drawing techniques and the use of various drawing materials. Advanced students are led towards a creative and experimental approach.
(Project Art – 1st year MA level),
The content of the subject is to create the conceptual projects as a studio design, not limited and determined by real conditions (e.g. financies, technologies, etc.). The aim of the project is not to find a perfect solution or to make a perfect drawing, rather to document the thinking processes in the spatial disciplines by drawing, collage, computer simulation, etc. Project Art creates an equal platform where it is possible to concentrate only on a thought, the idea itself, without the financial problems of realization and technologies.
Figure Modelling
Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Trizma, MFA
The subject’s curriculum is based on analysis of the anatomy of the human body, on the study of the realistic modelling of the figure in classical art. Acquisition of the respective skills: preparation of scaffolding, clay, aids, basic measurements, figure construction. Practical modelling, building of form. Creative building of expression. The aim of the subject is to master the basic principles of figure modelling, proportion and composition of the whole.
Sculpture Techniques - stone, wood
Asst. Prof. Martin Piaček, MFA
Stone: Introduction with stonework technologies, materials and their use in sculpture practice. Familiarisation with tools and instruments. Techniques for transferring dimensions from the model. Techniques for processing stone material.
Wood: Procedure for processing wood. Ways of processing wood by classic and modern technologies. Preparation of designs for realisation in wood. Familiarisation with tools. Safety at work.
Sculpture Techniques - metal
Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Trizma, MFA
Metal: Familiarisation with metalwork technologies, casting and forming in sculpture practice. Materials and their use in sculpture practice. Preparation of models. Preparation of wax models and casting into them, chasing and final rendering. Welding technologies, training welding. Safety at work.
Plastic materials
Asst. Prof. Martin Piaček, MFA
Náplňou predmteu je oboznámenie sa s tradične používanými plastami na báze živíc, epoxidy, polyuretány, polyestery a bežnými formovacími materiálmi ako je Lukprén, ale aj tvorivé samostatné hľadanie nových sochársky využiteľných materiálov (nové produkty pre výtvarníkov, stavebná chémia, polotovary). Ide o vedomé rozširovanie výrazových prostriedkov, experiment, skúmanie možností spracovania nových materiálov a ich vzájomných kombinácií.
Anatomy
MUDr. Ladislav Šabo
2 semesters
| 1. | The importance of teaching anatomy for artists. |
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What is the position of man in nature? (Shaping of the body, bioethical problems. |
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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. |
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Building blocks of the human body: tissues, skeleton, muscles and sensory organs. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The effect of age and gender on body forms. |
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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. |
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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). |
Compulsory elective subjects of the Department
Metal
Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Trizma, MFA
The subject forms an extension to the compulsory subject “Stone, Wood, Metal”. Students focus on the final realisation of a design in metal and on the more thorough acquisition of knowledge and skills in the field of metal casting.
The Medal
Ass. Patrik Kovačovský, MFA
Students are taught the technological and composition basics of modelling low relief – use of the coin and medal face. Theory: basic technical conditions in the modelling medals and coins, principles of composition, practice: application of lettering into low relief, free styling of the state emblem, free medal.
