Mountains revisited: theory in field practice

On our brief gallery visit, there were many interesting art pieces that have caught my eye but I have to say that what I thought about the most after leaving were probably the creations of Josef Váchal. His Šumava umírající a romantická (Šumava dying and romantic) is a book consisting of many diverse pieces differencing…

For my work, I’ve chosen to talk about Slavic mythology and paganism and the overall Slavic relationship with mountains. I’d like to explore the ways people have lived with the mountains as well as the way they saw them from a religious point of view. Slavic people have been using mountains in many ways for…

Very often I had to remind myself that the focus of this seminar is mountains while looking at the beautiful works. I was charmed by Adam Kašpar’s Smrkový prales and from other blog posts, I can see I am not the only one, but the painting that stayed craved into my brain is Julius Mařák’s Bouře, it was a…

Špillar Jaroslav, Lapené lesní žínky – Trapped Forest Nymphs (1901). I didn’t chose the topic of Mountain and myth by accident or randomly. As far as I remember, mountains have always been the stage for the crazy stories I was making in my head. Children raised by wolves, witches worshipping nature, monsters staring at you…

When we entered the gallery I obviously saw the huge hyper-realistic painting (Smrkový prales by Adam Kašpar, 2022) as one of the first works of art there and I really liked it. The size and colors were important factors I think, but the smell was the thing that lured me to it the most. I…

I’m going to talk about the way I plan to do my research. It is nothing concrete yet, to be honest. I will see during the field trip how it will all work out, but anyways… I want to work with maps, to compare the map of the location of our stay with some map…

There were many great works of art in the gallery, much of which were concerned with the theme of mountains. The forms of representation were vast, from the creative approach of combining maps and actual photography in Danial Fisher’s 2 representations to Rudolf Síkora’s Topography IV., which with its plasticity and cold colours, brought out…

As I announced in my previous article, I decided to suddenly change the subject of my research and I can say with certainty that it probably paid off and there was an e(a)ffect of curiosity and enthusiasm for research. For a time, the visual side of science was emphasized, and the auditory side was somewhat…

“It is precisely when we consider how people can find the courage and spirit to engage in the rather constant and difficult revaluation of their lives that we encounter the appeal of myths.”[1]  If the theory of affect is based on what we feel and experience. How can we use it to study mythology that…