Modelling (FSI-YM1)

Academic year 2025/2026
Supervisor: doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.  
Supervising institute: ÚK all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
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The course focuses on the modelled head, which is a classic object for practicing the construction of mass in space and teaching modelling techniques. The semester is divided into three assignments, the first is a modelled skull based on a model, which is the necessary starting point for the subsequent two modelled heads based on plaster busts, with emphasis on proportion, character expression, movement and details.
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Type of course unit:
    Studio work   13 × 3 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Studio work

Modeled skull according to the model
Symmetry, proportions, construction of matter, work with spatulas, eyelets and other tools
Modeled head based on plaster bust
Principles for its construction, basic mass, proportions, movement
Characteristic features, work with details
Evaluation, analysis of strengths and weaknesses of individual works
Literature - fundamental:
1. BAMMES, Gottfried. Der nackte Mensch: Hand und Lehrbuch der Anatomie für Künstler. Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1982. ISBN 3-364-00016-6.
2. GOLDFINGER, Eliot. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0195052060.
3. KOS, Jaroslav a ŽILÁK, Pavel. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.
Literature - recommended:
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KOS, Jaroslav a ŽILÁK, Pavel. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.
2. MALIVA, Josef. Doteky s uměním a časem I. díl: Přehled evropských dějin umění od pravěku po renesanci. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, 1996. ISBN 80-214-0822-7.
3. MALIVA, Josef. Doteky s uměním a časem II. díl: Přehled dějin umění od baroka do poloviny 20. století. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, 1997. ISBN 80-214-1088-4.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
B-PDS-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- GCr 3 Compulsory 1 2 W