Culture and Art

1.What is art and culture?

-Culture - the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people
encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts
-Art - any activity or product done by people with a communicative or aesthetic purpose
something that expresses an idea, an emotion or, more generally, a world view
a component of culture, reflecting economic and social substrates in its design
2.Types of art?
-artists can express themselves in many forms: music, literature, architecture, painting, drawing,
sculpture, music, dance, theatre, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture
Visual arts:
Painting with brush (Fines art), Drawing with pencil or charcoal
-colour painting, oil-painting, portraits, ladscapes, collages, still-life (can be seen in galleries)
Sculpture (statues - live size of animal/humans.., sculptures)
-materials: marble, stone, bronze, metal, clay, wood, glass, crystal, ice
-painters and sculptors (Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Michelangelo = Immortal)
Photography (zoom, lens, flash)
Architecture (urban, suburban, rural)
-used for town planning, urban design, landscapes (gardens, parks...), interior design (furniture)
-architects (Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (renaissance))
Performing arts:
Music - most popular art (profession of many people)
-instruments: accordion, bagpipes, cymbals, oboe..
-genres: classical, traditional, folk, electronic, popular, blues, country, hip-hop, jazz, tap dance, rock
-clasical → philharmonic orchestra
-opera → opera houses (connection of opera and balet)
-popular → live concerts (pop, rock, jazz, blues, country....)
-digital music → phones, mp3, mp4..
-composers (Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven (Ninth Symphony - Ode to Joy - Anthem of EU))
Dance (choreography → training → performance)
-types: traditional, folk, modern, contemporary, balet, zumba, oriental dances, classical dances
Threatre (rehearsal → premiere → audience → standing ovation/applaud)
-playwrights writes to be put on stage
-performances: drama, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy (musical)
-on stage: curtains, props, costumes
Film/Cinema (Cinematography) - subtitles and dabing, cinema-goers
-genres: comedy, tragedy, thrillers, science fiction, musical, cartoon, fairytale, sitcom, romance
-types: multi-screen air-conditioned complexes in shopping centres
three-dimensional films
open-air cinemas (summer)
Literature (fiction and non-fiction) - theatre-goers
-poets reveal ther emotians via verses
-novelists invent stories with real/fictional heroes
Other types of art:
Mime, Magic, Illusions, Spoken word/Recitation , Puppetry, Ceramics, Graphic/Digital Design,
Black and Gold smithery, Decorative art
3.Culture and art in our lives/Role of art in modern society?
-add aesthetic value to our lives, enrich our minds and pleases our senses
-they are part of national heritage (country try to promote, develop and protect it)
-art can change opinions, instill values, affect sense of self, translate experience, trigger reflectio
-it can result in empathy, new ideas, creation of dialogue and the democratic expression of values
4.Cultural live in Bratislava and Slovakia? (every kind of happening in Slovakia)
-institutions: galleries, museum, theatres, community centres, exhibitions...
-BA: Museums (Historical, Jewish, of Natural Sciences, Clocks, Transport, Railway, City)
Galleries (Slovak National, Danubiana Art, Bibiana, Ujuv(Slovak folk crafts))
Palaces (Presidential, Grasalkovič, Esterchaszi) Squares (Main, Hviezdoslavovs)
Slovak National Theatre (Old/New building) Rebuta - Slovak Symphonic Orchestra
Bridges (look outs for landscapes), Look out tower Bratislava Castle
Parks (Janko Kraľ Public Park, Medical Garden) House of Slovak Broadcasting
Michaels gate, Saint Martins Cathedral, Blue Church, Slavin Memorial
-happenings: White night (Art festival) Jazz days, Viva musica Coronations
Christmas market and feasts New Years Eve (Fireworks) Summer Shakespeare fest
Open air festivals (Hip-Hop žije, Ibiza, Uprising..)
5.Plans for night in Bratislava?
1.Day: New House of SNT, Museum of Natural Sciences, Jewish museum and Museum of Clocks
2.Day: SNG, Old House of SNT, Main square, Michaels gate, Saint Martins Cathedral
6.Important persons of Slovakia?
-Kollár, Štúr, Dobšinský, Hviezdoslav, Kráľ, Smrek, Figuli, Krasko
-Suchoň, Cíker, Dusík, Benka, Galanda, Ťapák, Jakubisko, Bielik, Fialová
-Krónes, Satinský, Chudík, Bagár, Borodač, Labuda, Turzonovová, Tiržíková, Studenková
7.Favorite type of art and why?
-I love cinematography as its the combination of every other type of art than was, can or even will
be created. You can see it, you can hear it, you can imagine being there with them and the modern
technologies and their development are making to possible to even feel it, smell it and literally join
it. Film is everything.
8.Comparation of watching a film and reading the book?
Film: visuality, lazy entertainment, feeling of actually being there
Book: imagination, creativity, possibilities of changing the appearances
9.Equipment for art?
Painting: brush, canvas, pencils, charcoal, crayons, easle
Music: instruments, conductor sticks, computer, synthetizer, microphone
Reading: buy/borrow them, lamp Cinematography: camera, idea
Dancing: clothes, shoes Fashion: sewing machines
10.Graffiti - vandalism or not?
-Why yes: illegal walls and places, disrespect to the historical buildings
wrong ideas (political (nazism), reliogonal (kill somebody), against law)
-Why not: legal places, kind of painting, beatiful, expression of the lower classes
can express problems of modern society
11.Slovak folk culture?
-involves music, customs, traditions, clothing, language, sayings, oral history (balads, tales, riddles,
legends, supersttittions), magic and folk medicine → time-proven plants/herbs:
Costumes: expresses indentity to geographic area, time period, type of work, social class, marital..
Women: puffed-sleeved blouse/shirt, underskirt + upperskirt, apron, bodice, bonnet/headscarf,
calf-high boots/peasant's shoes
Men: hat (maybe feather), shirt, waistcoat, belt, trousers, boots/peasant's shoes, upper coat
valaška - a decorated folk hatchet, a kind of a shepherd's axe
Music: violin, bells, rattles and cimbalon plus:
Fujara:a folk music instrument, traditionally played by Slovak shepherds
extremely long flute with three finger holes (great artistic values)
belongs to the intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO)
Crafts: beekeeping, potttery, woodcarving, masonry, tinkery, carpentry, weaving, blacksmithery,
embroidery, ceramics, basketry + manufacturers of laces, emroidery, leather products
Flowers: nettle, calendula, dandelion, thyme, colt's foot, linden, mint, hips