WERICH
„And we shall all together love the world and peace and we shall all together work for this world. If we all give everything to everyone then we shall all have everything together.”
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