Articles written by Zuzana Minarikova

How revolutionary ideals of the avant-garde have become commodified for mass cultural consumption and the idea of revolution has mutated into a mass product

Mar 31, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

A short overview of the arts' commitment to the transformation of society and the role of mass culture.

Mar 30, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

In the 1920s-30s, avant-garde artists conceived of the photographic media as a powerful tool for political and cultural change.

Mar 22, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

To address political issues in Nazi Germany, avant-garde had to maintain its distance from pure experimentation in favour of its critical capacity.

Mar 21, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

Art of the final quarter of the last century was characterised by an unprecedented expansion in forms as well as physical expansion of exhibiting space

Mar 10, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

The closing decades of the twentieth century saw fundamental changes that subverted the elitism of the preceding periods.

Mar 7, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

Art forms that sprang in the period of 1965-75 re-claimed the art's territory for critical debate and instigated the questioning of the very meaning of art.

Mar 6, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

After an eternity of our bookshelves and screens being assailed by witches and vampires since Harry Potter, finally there is an alternative for adults.

Feb 13, 2011 - Zuzana Minarikova

Tapestry by an unknown weaver after paintings by Rogier van der Weyden shows how its formal properties relate to its original location and function.

Aug 23, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Florentine architect Bernardo Rossellino and his innovative interior design of the Duomo accommodated its unique structure by eclectic mixture of styles.

Aug 23, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Formal analysis of the politically critical photomontage produced for the cover of the German Communist Party magazine Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung.

Aug 22, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Essays published by the artist's close associate and by a prominent art critic illuminate the significance of the painter's contribution to art.

Aug 22, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

In Robert Rauschenberg's work, anything could become a subject of art. Democracy was re-introduced into art after the autonomous rule of Abstract Modernism.

Aug 21, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

The major figure of New York based neo-avant-garde invented combines in response to the exclusivity of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s.

Aug 21, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Picasso's painting marks a radical departure from the conventional artistic practice and signals the beginning of Cubism.

May 23, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Original contemporary texts are an indispensable source of knowledge for art history and theory and offer an unmediated insight into how art was understood.

May 22, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

The theme of death became a constant in the art of the 15th century and penetrated every contemporary art form and every level of society.

May 20, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

The constant awareness of mortality became magnified through the visual interaction with images containing various representations of death.

May 19, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

The portrait of the Doge of Venice, Leonardo Loredan, shows how the Byzantine, Italian and Northern European art fused into the uniquely Venetian synthesis.

May 17, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Sumptuous textiles represented its wearer's social standing and wealth which was demonstrated through public display. Silk was the most desired and expensive material.

Feb 20, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

The three European cities became the hub of artistic innovation in the 15th century as the character of each was shaped by its locale and history.

Feb 20, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

What are the reasons for one particular town or area to become the hub of artistic excellence? Fruitful creativity is a result of a constellation of various elements.

Feb 18, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Artists proceeded cautiously in establishing the imagery of relics, resulting in tendency to idealize or indicate the body quite abstractly.

Feb 18, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Highly venerated relics such as the miracuouls Holy Corporal of Bolsena required artists to accommodate their designs to the strictly observed Church doctrine.

Feb 15, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Veneration of holy persons led to ever more elaborate design of reliquaries attempting to capture the likeness but subject to considerations of gender and idolatry.

Feb 15, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Relics played an important role in Christian religious ritual and reliquaries formed valuable part of artistic production in Medieval Europe.

Feb 15, 2010 - Zuzana Minarikova

Governments of Italian city states like Siena, Florence and Padua had a clear idea of thoroughly planned and well-organized urban development of their respective cities.

Nov 29, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The architectural language of The Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and The Palazzo della Raggione in Padua conveys the values defining civic identity of the cities.

Nov 28, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Monumental civic architecture in Late Medieval Italian city states articulated values of an ideal society through design and functions of their town halls.

Nov 28, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Renaissance artists in Northern Europe used the new medium of oil paint to create an illusion of space.

Nov 28, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Perspectival illusion of space, invented in the 15th century, was subject to differing interpretations in Northern and Italian Renaissance Art.

Nov 27, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The frescoes in the council chamber in the city's town hall, the Palazzo Pubblico, depict Maestá on its east wall and Siena as an ideal city on the west wall.

Nov 27, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The Virgin enthroned was a staple subject of religious art but had equally strong civic implications for Late Medieval Tuscan city states.

Nov 26, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Pell flies the family nest on the night before her wedding taking no chances of having her wings clipped. She searches, finds and loses taking us for a rough ride.

Nov 23, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Like Nicolas Poussin, Claude became one of the most revered artists of the 17th century and this classicist landscape is a firm fixture of western canon of art.

Aug 19, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The formal analysis of Poussin's history painting clarifies how and why this work acquired canonical status in western art.

Aug 19, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Feminist art history reveals how avant-garde, whose objective was to challenge the academic canon, applied exclusively to male artists.

Aug 15, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Rococo painter Vigée-Le Brun's self-portrait is an example of a woman art practitioner who asserted her position as a serious artist in the French 18th century art.

Aug 14, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The process of abstracting of forms found its extreme in Constructivism, the avant-garde art movement of the post-revolutionary Russian and later Soviet era.

Aug 13, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences.

Aug 9, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Formal analysis of the Dutch 'Vanitas' painting, a subgenre of still life, popular in the 17th century Holland.

May 23, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Contrary to the popular belief that artists were humble introvert craftsmen who lived and worked content in their anonymity, artists systematically advertised their work.

May 22, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque era whose specialization in depicting ordinary scenes in domestic interior made him a successful businessman.

May 21, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The Italian painter whose career demonstrates that artists of the Late Gothic period had begun to employ ingenious strategies to build their professional status.

May 20, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari were Renaissance artists and historiographers of art whose historical writings laid basis for Art History as an academic discipline.

May 13, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

A biography and overview of work of Josef Lada: a painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and writer who created the most beloved illustrated characters of Czech literature.

May 11, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Tapestries were regarded such valuable objects that during war they were seized, used as ransom or, confiscated as property of those convicted of treason.

May 6, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Under Sluter's direction, the family mausoleum of the Duke of Burgundy, the Chartreuse de Champmol, became an epicentre of artistic innovation in the 14th century.

Apr 26, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Master of Northern Late Gothic sculpture, Claus Sluter was a prominent artist at the court of the Duke of Burgudy Philip II the Bold in Dijon, France.

Apr 23, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The painter and designer Charles LeBrun (1619-90) was one of the most significant figures in the development of Western art.

Feb 21, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova