• Alexandr Skriabin
• „Synaesthesia“
• Atonal and dissonant music system
• Theosophy
• „Mysterium“, 1915
Circle of Fifths

• Mondrian/ Kandinsky
– Art as a bridge to a clarity of vision
– http://swf.tubechop.com
/tubechop.swf?vurl=C04
JZsoqs1A&start=2611&e nd=2711&cid=4886777
• František Kupka, Fugue in Two Colours, 1912

• kinetic art, neon lights, sound
• „Spectrophone“
• Light= modernity
1930´s:
Progress and
Optimism

• Machine seen with an irony:
The Large
Glass,
1923
• http://yout u.be/lmag
4vL7hnQ?t
=2m6s

• Jean
Tinguely,
Homage to
New York: http://swf.tu
bechop.com/ tubechop.sw
f?vurl=3JEx6
CDW6o&start=318
0&end=3362
&cid=488663
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Rotozaza, 1967: Smashing-bottles machine
On occasion of the congress „Vision 67: Survival and Growth. Second World Congress on
Communication in a Changing World“, University of New York

• John Cage, Waterwalk, 1960: http://youtu.be/SSulycqZH-U
– The overcoming of subjectivity by introducing the principle of disinteressedness
• Merce Cunningham, Walk Around Time, 1968 (Large
Glass by Duchamp)
• RHYTMIC STRUCTURE – coexistence and independence of music and dance (India), chance operations (Yìjīng/ I Ching)
• Further watching: http://youtu.be/ZNGpjXZovgk

• Marcel Duchamp: “when you have the independence between the music and the dance that we have, then the observer becomes the third point in a triangle; he completes the work and each triangle is a different triangle.”

Lucio Fontana, White Manifesto, 1946:
"We want to go beyond painting, sculpture, poetry, music, we need an art that would be in greater harmony with the needs of the new spirit... The motionless pictures of yesterday no longer satisfy the longings of the new man, formed by the necessity of action and co-habitation with machinery, demanding a constant dynamic. The aesthetics of organic motion replace the aesthetic lassitude of rigid forms. In the name of this change, which has occurred in the character of man, and in the name of the spiritual and internal changes in all human relations and activities, we abandon the use of the familiar art forms and begin the development of the new art, consisting in the unity of time and space."

Experimental Art
Vladimír Boudník: Explosionalism
• http://www.artlist.cz/en/vladimir-boudnik-101681/

• https://youtu.be/cth3xg jwBqs
• http://youtu.be/PRHHL
NiCJBg

• Marc Rothko, Chapel, 1963- 1971
• http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl= xbS0Zn3vww&start=3234&end=3435&cid=4887334

• Hugo Demartini, 1968

• Radical social agenda:
– students´ and workers´prostests
– Anti-Vietnam war protests
– Growth of feminism
• Avant-garde artists begun to challenge modernism (= male/ progress)
– Jasper Johns or Richard Hamilton
– Performance – Fluxus – Beuys
– Situationist International

• Paintings no longer need to be necessarily coloured of be flat
• Sculptures do not necessarily have to be upright or to have volume
• Duchamp  anything can under certain conditions qualify as „art“
• Intention: to frustrate the market mechanism
• Confusion

• Deriving at some distance from dada - wanted
anonymous and
collective art http://swf.tubechop.com
/tubechop.swf?vurl=3JEx
6CDW6o&start=571&end=728&c id=4919607
• From the alternative theatre
• From the happenings movement of the 1960s
• Resists to be treated as commodity

Performance:
Joseph Beuys
• How to Explain Art to a Dead Hare ,
1965
• Art is not there to serve the intellect
• Art as a raising of creative powers and sharpening of senses
• Intuition
• To find the source of creativity in the self
• Everyone is an artist – a social designer of the future – antropological, human centered art concept
• Schiller – „artist“is the worthiest definition of a man
• The higest task of art is to connect the man with his higher self
• Social sculpture
•
• http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vu
rl=AFc1BeS0vKI&start=2700&end=2845&ci d=4887694 http://youtu.be/Mo47lqk_QH0

•
Marina Abramovic http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC
_qms?t=1h10m21s
• Magiciens de la Terre,
1989, Centre Pompidou,
Paris
– Nigthsea Crossing
Conjuction
• The Artist is Present, 2009
– http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_ qms?t=27m31s
– http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_ qms?t=44m10s
• Dematerialization, minimalism
– Gino De Dominicis,
Invisibility http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_ qms?t=1h7m4s
– John Cage, 4m33s, unselfish concert of silence

Soviet Conceptualism and
Performance
• Collective Actions
– Andrei Monastyrsky
– Began to develop John
Cage´s ideas concerning the role of chance and randomness
– inspired by Samuel Beckett
– Ritualistic actions of enigmatic nature
– The Third Variant, 1978 – lying in a ditch until the audience wandered away
– Underground Art, 1979
Komar and Melamid, „Quotation“, 1972

Yurii Albert, For Deaf Mutes (What Did the Artist Want to Say with It?), 1987, From the series Elitist-Democratic Art
• Appropriation
• Exhibitions in private appartments
• Outdoor events  denounced as anti-Soviet and pornographic
• Yurii Albert

• Order of Crusaders for Pure Humor Without Banter
• Eugen Brikcius – to blurr the border between art and life
• Zorka Ságlová, Hay- Straw,
1969
– Work as art
– Ritual of tossing hay
– Brought nature back to the people
• School of a Czech Grotesque
(Kroutvor)
• Home exhibitions, instantaneous shows
• Ságlová, Hommage to
Gustav Oberman, 1970

Vladimír Muzička,
Exhibition on a Heap

• Founding member of the Order of
Crusaders for Pure Humor Without
Banter
Great Dialogue
Karel
Nepraš

• Zdeněk Beran, Games with Cabbageheads,
Forum 88, Holešovice
Market
ideal x reality

Performance and Body Art
• Jiří Sozanský, Mater
Mortis, from the cycle „1984,
Orwell´s Year“
• https://youtu.be/ZtQO4Rk84Kg
?t=30s

• Member of punk group Už jsme doma since 1985
• U Vystřelenýho Voka – murals filled with desperates
• Figures in Betlehem dressed in home-sportswear
• Animal Farm – book cover
Martin Velíšek

Velíšek, You ,
Who Ski
• White Theatre