ARTWORK – JIŘÍ KOVANDA: ABOUT ART

• Can we start?00:00:02.494
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• Are you ready?00:00:04.105
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• "Art Classes 2)"00:00:07.273
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• I thought I would read from my notes that I took about 10 or 15 years ago.00:00:09.727
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• I have notepads where I have my drafts etc.00:00:17.789
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• At that time when I read something interesting I put it down.00:00:23.200
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• It was my first idea.00:00:29.634
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• Nevertheless, at the end, I had to make a new plan.00:00:35.801
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• Finally, I chose the second idea because I thought it would be better.00:00:42.515
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• I will read from the book "Ideas of Modern Artists".00:00:49.692
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• I will organize my reading like this.00:00:57.631
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• I will ask you one by one to say a number from 15 to 485.00:01:00.441
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• You will say the number, I will find the page and read the paragraph on the page.00:01:20.668
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• Please, can you tell me some number?00:01:35.439
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• Modern art has come intuitively and independently00:01:40.868
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• to the same results as modern science.00:01:46.591
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• As well as science it´s taken everything apart to the smallest elements,00:01:49.174
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• to be able to put them together according to the universal rules of nature.00:01:51.890
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• Science and art have reached the same conclusion:00:01:54.423
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• Every form is a stagnant picture of a moment of certain process.00:01:56.567
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• Then a work is a stop in being, not a stagnant aim.00:02:00.824
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• We know works that contain system.00:02:04.391
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• But the system that has become conscious during the creation, not before.00:02:07.406
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• We want to depict an order, the order of nature,00:02:11.578
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• where big tensions keep in harmony horrible rotations of bodies.00:02:14.544
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• Our work is neither philosophy nor a sytem of nature recognition.00:02:20.640
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• It is a part of nature and as such it may be the object of recognition.00:02:24.628
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• It is L. Lisitsky.00:02:29.599
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• It is good that the God is not educated,00:02:35.371
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• that he does not a diploma framed at home00:02:37.716
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• that would say what he can do.00:02:40.397
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• That´s all.00:02:42.608
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• Just the ordinary things enable us to see00:02:46.476
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• the form of simplicity that leads to the recognition of deep substance of being00:02:48.787
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• where the mysterious beauty of art comes from.00:02:53.775
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• Carlo Cara.00:02:57.090
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• Cubism with a quotation mark.00:02:59.887
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• After some consideration I didn´t accept cubism.00:03:01.696
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• It was the introduction to cubism again.00:03:30.025
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• Omega´s eyes change.00:03:35.435
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• During normal days they are light blue, but00:03:37.297
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• when she looks at her lover they change into black with carmine marks.00:03:39.890
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• The wishes of Omega are different.00:03:48.012
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• Once Alfa saw her sitting at the riverbank, kissing a burro that was lying on her lap.00:03:50.408
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• Alfa caught an ostrich and leant against his neck.00:03:56.216
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• But Omega didn´t rise her head from her favourite amusement, kissing.00:03:59.133
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• Omega was tired and disappointed00:04:05.209
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• because she couldn´t have all animals on the island.00:04:11.311
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• She sat on grass, and burst in tears.00:04:13.017
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• Then she stood up, and started to run around the island00:04:14.945
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• when she met a wild boar.00:04:17.325
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• She kneed, her body was covered in her plaits,00:04:19.052
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• and she and the wild boar, they watched each other.00:04:21.765
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• I´ve just wanted to say that this is not my idea of art classes.00:04:25.315
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• Pardon?00:04:29.505
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• I´ve just wanted to say that this is not my idea of art classes.00:04:32.811
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• I haven´t been to another classes, but my number is 101.00:04:39.401
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• Neither do I.00:04:45.980
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• It is a way how to explain all modern art history in one class.00:04:47.741
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• I don´t agree.00:05:04.837
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• Neither do I.00:05:07.283
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• I am kidding.00:05:09.478
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• Ok. It is fine. I am drawing here. I am interested in it.00:05:11.154
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• I have no time to read this.00:05:20.597
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• I study Art Education at the Pedagogical Faculty.00:05:29.453
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• I am little bit upset that I don´t see how the art education00:05:34.610
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• could be applied.00:05:39.383
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• I understand what you are saying.00:05:47.485
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• You may be right partly.00:05:50.952
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• I was kidding little bit.00:05:53.664
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• This what I do here, is not meant as a lecture on modern art inspite of its name.00:05:56.311
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• It is kind of game based on arbitrariness.00:06:07.559
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• I think it is more about the approach and the game.00:06:13.769
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• I don´t think that one would learn something fundamental.00:06:20.669
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• However, I don´t say that you can´t learn anything interesting.00:06:26.981
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• I think you are right.00:06:40.477
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• Don´t take it too seriously.00:06:50.498
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• It is a playful attempt how to realize my task.00:06:53.497
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• I don´t like to be involved in your game.00:07:02.304
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• I hoped somebody would protest much earlier.00:07:05.952
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• It is nice that we read here this book,00:07:11.295
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• but everybody can buy it and read it at home.00:07:13.641
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• But we are fifty and we want to get to know something.00:07:18.081
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• So it is important to discuss the text.00:07:22.172
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• We may discuss one paragraph for two hours for instance.00:07:26.271
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• I don´t have anything against it.00:07:28.230
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• I am not a theoretician.00:07:29.856
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• I didn´t want to give lecture on some problems of history of art.00:07:43.401
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• I wanted to play such a game.00:07:51.193
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• I think it is a strange game because of the book. There are no women.00:07:57.068
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• Why have you chosen this book?00:08:11.858
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• Cause I´ve had this book at home.00:08:20.808
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• And it´s come to me.00:08:23.708
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• It doesn´t have any difficult construction of ideas.00:08:25.817
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• It is a kind of impulse or intuition on which base I make decisions.00:08:31.159
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• As I say for the third time.00:08:35.163
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• It is not a lecture and I am not a lecturer of the history or theory of art.00:08:38.076
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• That´s beyond me.00:08:46.702
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• Shall we read or discuss?00:08:55.865
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• We can discuss, read or we can finish.00:08:59.716
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• I am curious what on page 172 is.00:09:06.697
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• We can have a look.00:09:11.837
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• There is František Kupka.00:09:17.815

8x comments “ARTWORK – JIŘÍ KOVANDA: ABOUT ART”

1. coocey says on24. Feb. 2009:
   

   Směšné Kovando! Měli jste jít radší na pifko.

2. sejf says on08. Mar. 2009:
   

   hustě teda . coocey má recht

3. štembera says on08. Mar. 2009:
   

   a to se doopravdy stalo anebo je to ten art ?

4. šogun says on23. Nov. 2009:
   

   to sejf a coocey:škoda chlapci, že jste to nepochopili.

5. pajtáš says on09. Apr. 2010:
   

   apročnejetomilehravé

6. Petr Mucha says on31. Oct. 2011:
   

   To nemaa chybu :D :D :D

7. Petr Mucha says on31. Oct. 2011:
   

   ahahah tak to nemaa chybu :D :D :D

8. _m.a._ says on06. May. 2012:
   

   Tohle je skvělý! A je mi líto, že ti studenti tam mají tak sterilizovaný mozky.

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