Katedra grafiky a kresby
Fakulta umění
Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě
Podlahova 3
709 00 Ostrava
Czech Republic
Graphics
The Graphics degree programme focuses on the study of modern graphic techniques (serigraphy, offset,
computer graphics), while also emphasizing traditional printing procedures. All available experimental forms
of printing and copying techniques are creatively developed in the Department’s courses. Computer programme
methods and photographic manipulation are studied separately. Students are given the possibility of utter freedom
in shaping their ideas of the world based on the highest possible understanding of it, while their own standpoints
and artistic opinions are honed and stimulated in discussions with teachers. Special focus is placed on the
development of students' own independent grasp of graphics with the maximum effort to encourage experimentation
within the broader context of the visual arts and taking advantage of the opportunity to overlap into other media,
thus placing graphics into the spatial context as well. Within the studio, studies are divided into the study
of graphic design and the study of typesetting and books.
Drawing
Teaching within this programme involves the acquisition of the basics of drawing and various drawing
techniques, the mastering of spatial relations, drawing from life, still life, free and figurative compositions.
Students learn to perceive drawing within the context of time as a manner of visual thinking with stress on
individual attitudes and independent artistic production.
In the course of their studies, students engage in a dialogue with the head artist of the studio in producing their own highly specialized drawing project (free drawing, illustration, large format, concept for an installation, etc.).