Preparatory courses for the 1st year
Preparatory courses of applied arts are intended exclusively for students of the Department of Applied ArtsPreparatory Course in Metals and Jewellery,
Assoc. Prof. Karol Weisslechner, MFA, Matúš Cepka, MFA
The aim of the course is to provide introductory information on the issue and specific features of artistic jewellery in the form of a specific assignment and lectures. The course is a gateway to the studio S+ M+ L+_XL – Metal and Jewell, and should be a creative playground for future creators of jewellery and utility objects, serving to project individualities. An assignment has two levels: theoretical research of the issue and practical application and development of knowledge in a sequence of studies, drafts, through to realisation of the object – the artist’s jewellery.
Preparatory Course in Glass
Asst. Prof. Milan Opálka, MFA
The course teaches students of glass the basics of glasswork. It creates the conditions for incorporating students into the glasswork department, as well as for comprehensive familiarisation with the possibilities of glasswork creation.
Preparatory Course in Ceramics
Prof. Ivica Vidrová, MFA
The course gives students an introduction to ceramics creation and creates the conditions for incorporating students into the ceramics department – the study of the basic principles of ceramics creation.
Main subject – STUDIO (practice based creative studio work)
Studio S+M+L+XL – Metal and Jewell
Assoc. Prof. Karol Weisslechner, MFA
BA level: The studio in semestral assignments includes a wide spectrum of tasks, ranging from the conception of small jewellery objects as unique items through to jewellery designed for industrial small-scale manufacture. A component of the undergraduate study is also the conception of larger objects and large dimensional works of sculpture for specific architectural spaces. The teaching process is closely connected with a knowledge of craft procedures, specific professions of processing metals (metal founding, forging, work with artistic enamel, precious metals, cutting of precious stones, etc.). In the case of larger projects the ability to work in the team is supported. During the semesters communication is made with students in the form of round-table discussions – team presentations of projects in progress, students reports for the whole studio team, discussions and critical appraisal not only from the side of the tutor, but also from students.
MA level: Graduate study is the thorough refinement of the creative score, the ability to define the creative problem and find appropriate solutions at a high creative and technical level. The synthesis of intellect, art and artistic craft, this idea together with intensive rational study is the basic path by which the student works toward the climax of their endeavour – an independent diploma work in 12th semester.
Studio of Glass
Asst. Prof. Viktor Oravec, MFA
BA level: The studio is aimed at the thorough mastering of specific techniques, technological procedures and materials in all types of glasswork (blowing, melting, sanding…). It leads students toward gaining experience in drawing (ergonomics), in graphical and in painting expressions (composition, colour), in the basics of architectural creation (space, proportion). There is thereby ensured in the framework of the undergraduate level the comprehensive preparedness of students in all fields of glasswork and its connection to practice.
MA level: The studio focuses on the independent artistic development of the student. The studio provides support by means of connecting the student with glassworks firms in which they realise their projects.
Ceramics Studio
Prof. Ivica Vidrová, MFA
BA level: The study of ceramics comprises two parallel lines: free ceramics creation and the design of utility objects. At the undergraduate level students gradually acquire knowledge of the basic ceramic technological units. The student solves the design of utility forms, functional objects and dinner sets, construction and sanitary elements, wall and floor tiles and their relation to internal and external architecture. In free creation the thought and philosophy is reflected in the rendering of the ceramic material – from miniature objects through larger sculptures, from clay materials for low firing, through to fireclay and porcelain. Ceramic painting is understood in the colour itself of clays and the student has the possibility to handle enamels, oxides and various types of firing.
MA level: Students of the graduate study present their own study programme, having possibly demanding individual assignments. The student presents him/herself in his/her final master’s work, the topic of which is chosen by the student him/herself, as a personality with original thought, an immutable creative expression, and artistic and general education.
Compulsory vocational subjects
Drawing
Stanislav Bubán, MFA
Predmet obsiahne zvládnutie klasickej kompozície a proporcií zobrazovaného modelu a zvládnutie vlastného výtvarného názoru s možnosťou odklonu od klasicistického zobrazenia. Osnova predmetu: figurálne kreslenie ako komplexná škola videnia, schopnosť vidieť realitu a zobraziť ju na ploche. Na hodinách figurálneho kreslenia prevažuje kresba ľudskej figúry podľa živého modelu, ale aj kresba ľudského skeletu a sadrových kópií alebo kresba krajiny a architektúry..
Figure Modelling
Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Trizma, MFA
The subject creates the basis for mastering the basic principles of modelling the figure, proportions and composition of a whole. The curriculum comprises the anatomy of the human body, the study of the realistic modelling of the figure in classical form, the preparation of scaffolding, clay, aids, basic measurements, construction of the figure, practical modelling, building shape and expression.
Chemistry Technology
Prof. Ivica Vidrová, MFA
Príprava a technické výkresy funkčných predmetov stolovania
Ceramics Technology
Gabriela Godová, MFA
In the form of lectures on materials and technologies used in ceramics design the student acquires a basic theoretical knowledge of ceramics design.
Rotating program
Prof. Ivica Vidrová, MFA
The student learns how to reproduce a utility object of a cylindrical form. Students master work on a plaster cast, intended for reproduction by casting. Brief research on a proposed utility object.
Chemistry Technology
Ing. Jozef Chololoušek
Jednotlivé prednášky sa skladajú z následovných okruhov:
- Hrnčiarske suroviny: ílové zeminy, plastické keramické suroviny, neplastické keramické suroviny,
- Črepové hmoty: základné poznatky o skladaní črepovej hmoty, hmota na točenie a modelovanie, hmota na odlievanie,
- Keramika na báze ílových surovín: porcelán, poloporcelán – vitreous china, pórovina a jemný hrnčiarsky tovar, kamenina,
- Technológia hrnčiarskej keramiky: dobývanie a spracovávanie plastických keramických surovín, sušenie keramiky, výpal keramickej hmoty,
- Glazúry: oxidy a ich pôsobenie v glazúre, kaliace oxidy, suroviny pre výrobu glazúr, výpočty zloženia glazúr, výber surovín a praktické problémy pri príprave surových glazúr, fritované glazúry, vplyv zloženia glazúry na jej vlastnosti, taviteľnosť a pôsobenie tavív v glazúrach, vplyv množstva jednotlivých oxidov na súhrn vlastností glazúry, základné typy glazúr, špeciálne druhy glazúr, staré typy glazúr, špeciálne povrchové efekty,
- Farbivá, keramické farbítka a keramické farby: farbiace oxidy, molekulové a koloídne farbivá, keramické farbítka, keramické farby,
- Technológia farbív: príprava a miešanie glazúr, farebné glazúry, použitie a spôsoby nanášania glazúr, výpal glazúr, chyby glazúr, chyby dekorácie.
Základná literatúra:
Hlodák, P.: Hliny a glazúry v keramickej praxi, Bratislava 1993
Pospíšil, Z., Koller,A. a kol.: Jemná keramika (úvod a základy technologie), Praha 1981
Rath,J., Pospíšil, Z. a kol.: Jemná keramika (metodika Měření a zkoušky), Praha 1988
Gulevič,O., Kouba, V.: Technická keramika, glazura a keramické barvy, Praha 1969
Konta, J.: Keramické a sklářske suroviny, Praha 1982
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). |
Technical Drawing
MSc. Dušan Červeňan
The study is aimed at familiarising students with the parameters of technical drawings. Brief content of the course: Technical documentation in the production process. Technical drawings, general requirements. Drawing formats, treatment, storage. Descriptive fields. Scales. The basics of depiction in technical drawings. The creation of drawings in the wood-processing industry. Assembly drawings. Replication. Construction-woodwork interior elements. Construction of doors, floors. Construction of inbuilt furniture. Technical requirements for staircases.
Glass Technology
RNDr. MSc. Ján Bartl, CSc.
Students acquire knowledge in the basics of molten glass production technology, glass wroughting and from the field of the physical and chemical properties of glass.
Glass Workshops
Asst. Prof. Milan Opálka, MFA
The subject introduces students to work in a glassworks and to the principles of design in utility glass. Students are taught the design of drinking and utility glass.
Creation and completing the utilitarian glass
Asst. Prof. Milan Opálka, MFA
Students are comprehensively familiarised with the design of drinking and utility glass. The second year focuses predominantly on explaining the inherent laws, or relations, of design, while the third year places emphasis on alternative design and on artistic and technical documentation. The fourth year comprises the own creation of utility glass and the student’s individual contribution.
Special works in Metal – rezanie a spájanie
Asst. Prof. Matúš Cepka, MFA
Predmet sa na teoretickej báze zaoberá historickými technologickými postupmi až po nové technológie pri obrábaní a spracúvaní kovov a zliatin využiteľných vo výtvarnej praxi. Kurz slúži na objasnenie technologických postupov a ich využitia v súčasnej individuálnej autorskej tvorbe v umeleckom šperku i pri zadaniach presahujúcich do sféry dizajnu a prác do konkrétnej architektúry.
Special works in Metal - finalizing
Asst. Prof. Matúš Cepka, MFA
The subject serves to explain the technological procedures and their use in contemporary individual artistic design in the sphere of artistic jewellery as well as in assignments stretching into the sphere of design and works through to specific architecture. The subject demonstrates on a theoretical knowledge basis a wide range of technological metal surface treatment procedures and their application.
Special works in Metal - shaping
Asst. Prof . Matúš Cepka, MFA
An explanation of the technological procedures and their use in contemporary individual artistic design in the sphere of artistic jewellery as well as in assignments stretching into the field of design and works through to specific architecture. In the course students deal practically with metal beating and metal bending, which are among the classic skills of silversmith and jewellery making.
Special works in Metal – vacuum cast
Ass. Prof. Matúš Cepka, MFA
The subject demonstrates on a theoretical knowledge basis various technological metal casting procedures and their application in practical exercises. The aim of the subject is to teach students the basic technological procedures of metal casting.
Enamel
Ass. Prof. Matúš Cepka, MFA
An explanation of the technological procedures and their use in contemporary individual artistic design in artistic jewellery as well as in assignments stretching into the sphere of design and works through to specific architecture. This is a course that through the form of practical exercises and tests teaches students the technique and various uses of enamel in history and the present day.
Special works in Metal – etching
odb. as. Mgr. A. Matúš Cepka
Predmet sa na teoretickej báze zaoberá historickými technologickými postupmi až po nové technológie pri obrábaní a spracúvaní kovov a zliatin využiteľných vo výtvarnej praxi. Kurz slúži na objasnenie technologických postupov a ich využitia v súčasnej individuálnej autorskej tvorbe v umeleckom šperku i pri zadaniach presahujúcich do sféry dizajnu a prác do konkrétnej architektúry.
Special works in Metal – CNC hub, 3D Scanner
Asst. Prof. Matúš Cepka, MFA
Predmet sa zaoberá využitím modernej 3D technológie v oblasti umeleckého šperku. Cieľom kurzu je realizácia diela s využitím 3D CNC (computer numerical control) frézy, alebo 3D CNC skenera.
Photography of Jewellery
Asst. Prof. Jana Hojstričová, MFA, Ass. Marko Horbán, MFA
The subject provides students of jewellery with knowledge of the basics of photography in the field of photographing minute objects and the further processing of individual photographs on a computer. The subject will be taught on a block basis (3 days) with the provision of a partial technical background by the Department of Photography (photographic studio).
Computer Modelling
RNDr. Pavol Bukoven
The subject covers the basics of modelling objects in 2D and 3D with the aid of computer equipment. Programs RHINO 3D, 3ds max.
