WERICH
„A budem společně svět a mír milovat a budem společně pro ten svět pracovat. Když všichni všechněm všechno dáme, tak budem všichni všechno mít dohromady.“
Jan Werich
- Why the title "Werich"?00:00:07.280
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- The name Werich is used here00:00:10.254
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- as a symbol of the positivist worldview,00:00:13.373
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- of a world that is inhabited by nice people00:00:19.530
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- who believe in the contemporary zeitgeist00:00:24.030
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- and work towards progress.00:00:28.530
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- This modernist world00:00:32.251
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- is connected with certain signs and symbols00:00:35.251
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- that Vít Svoboda and Jan Brož use in their drawings.00:00:39.798
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- Jan Brož's drawings are more explicit.00:00:45.281
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- They are serious comments on social and political issues,00:00:51.694
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- presenting today's problems with a modernist touch.00:00:57.717
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- Vít Svoboda uses similar symbols00:01:04.042
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- but his creative style has been influenced00:01:08.990
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- by the 80's and 90's graffiti art,00:01:13.490
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- that is graffiti art before it became an empty form.00:01:18.537
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- While Jan's drawings are rather conceptual and serious,00:01:23.449
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- Vít works more intuitively,00:01:28.967
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- interconnecting various levels and symbols.00:01:32.467
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- He shows the reality we live in,00:01:36.668
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- where symbols are devoid of meaning.00:01:40.168
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- It is a kind of critical dialog or a supplement.00:01:44.165