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Art and Architecture in Prague
After 1945
Postwar ArchitectureReconstruction of monuments
– Betlem Chapel (Jan Hus)– Carolinum (Charles
University)- Emauz Monastery Church,
New Town Betlem Chapel
Carolinum
Socialist RealismHotel
International, 1952-4, Stalin was expected
to visit
Stalin Monument, Letná, 1955;
destroyed 1962
• Return to the „classical values“
• Monumentalising historism• The aim of architecture was
to create a system of architectural forms as political-ideological signs understandable to the working people and „make him proud of his victories and work successes“.
Socialist Realism
Hotel Jalta, Wenceslas Sq.• 1958• Statues on the terasse
– A couple of agricultors with a jug of fresh milk, agricultors huging, agricultors with a sheaf of grain
„Brussels Style“
Expo 58• Great success of the
Czechoslovak pavilion• Laterna Magika first presented
here – Alfréd Radok, Miloš Forman– Acting on the stage and on the
screen at the same time
• Bright colours, inventive use of materials
• Reaction on the socialist realism
Pavilon, destroyed
Restaurant, nowadays at the
Letná park
„Brussels Style“Tramway Tatra T3, the most successful model produced since 1960´s Podolí Swimming Pool, Prague 4
Karel Prager• Federal Assembly, 1966-73
– Used a building from the 1930´s– Use of a bridge girder– Large suspended glass wall
• New scene, National Theatre (Laterna Magika)
• Skewed shape lined with more than four thousand blown glass bricks with diverse profilation – form together a huge relief. Unique use of glass.
• Strict elegance, non-decorativeness, comfort
Federal Assembly
New Scene
Architecture of the 1970´sUnderground, since 1974- Nusle Bridge
- Stability threatened by heavy soviet trains
- Anděl- Reliefs with socialist topics
Colonies of prefabricated houses- 1950´s, 1960´s Prosek,
Petřiny - 1970´s, 1980´s, Southern
and South-Western Town
Kotva Shopping Mall
1970-5, Hexagons interconected by escalators
Malich
Karel Malich (born 1924)
• Kinetic sculpture• Use of wires since 1970´s
Me and the One I am Meeting, 1976-1980
„I sit in a café, I have turned my head slightly to the left“, 1970´s - 1980
Veselý
Aleš Veselý• Sharp agressive
objects in 1960´s• Nowadays
monumental sculpture – use of tree truncs, huge pieces of rock, steel
• Land Art – Project in the Negev Desert
• Please visit: http://www.ales-vesely.cz/
Chairs, 1960´s
Theodor Pištěk : Hyperrealism
Theodor Pištěk : Hyperrealism
Theodor Pištěk : Hyperrealism