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2025/2026

Visual Arts I

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511VT1B KZ 2 0P+2C Czech
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Department of Fine Arts
Synopsis:

Study of spatial shapes with emphasis on skills in graphics and painting. Techniques of drawing using lead-pencil, pen

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None

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The basis is 13 teaching hours, each lesson lasts 90 minutes. Working on A2 format. A detailed description of the exercise can be found in the tutorial on the website of the Institute of Visual Arts.

Block cubic solids

1st exercise - still life drawing based on reality, cubic bodies on 2 vanishing points

2nd exercise - composition of cubic bodies on multiple vanishing points, hatch shading

3rd exercise - more complex compositions from solids, including a pyramid and a polygon

4. exercise - sketching / from own imagination / composition of buildings, substitution, addition of masses, 2 drawings on smaller formats from the point of view of a standing person

Block rotary bodies

5th exercise - simple compositions with rotating shapes, ellipse construction

6. exercise - more complex compositions with rotating shapes, compound shapes

7th exercise - composition of cubic and rotating bodies, overhead perspective / city /

8. exercise - sketching /from your own imagination/ building composition, mass of cylinder, adding, subtracting mass

Block drawing of the interior

9.exercise - interior drawing using an angle / corridor / in the school building

10. exercise - composition with a chair in the interior

11. exercise - composition with drapery in the interior

12th exercise - interior drawing /studio/ with geometric bodies

13.exercise - sketching /from your own imagination/ compound shapes

Study Objective:

Stress placed on skills in graphics, drawing and proportions

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Further information:
https://www.fa.cvut.cz/cs/fakulta/organizacni-struktura/ustavy/142-ustav-vytvarne-tvorby
No time-table has been prepared for this course
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Data valid to 2025-03-14
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