Course General Description

In today's over-technical society flooded with information, drawing with its flexibility, simplicity and spontaneity is coming back. Play and clarity. Attaching ourselves to the means of visual expression, we can use any techniques (both traditional and new), crossbreed them and express ourselves efficiently or wildly. The studio is best characterised by the tasks assigned to its students and the structure of studies, meaning not only class work but the entire studio life with meetings, discussions, trips, discovering of wider contexts. The studio hosts theoreticians as well as visual artists, publishers and other specialists in the fields pertinent to students' work. The studio of illustration is an open space for students who are enthusiastic about drawing and wish to propagate their pictures through galleries, books, streets and electronic media.

School General Description

The Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague was founded in 1885. Throughout its existence it has ranked among the best educational institutions in the country. It boasts a number of successful graduates who have gone on to become respected professionals, garnering acclaim beyond the Czech Republic. The school is divided into the departments of architecture, design, fine arts, applied arts, graphic and theory and history of art. Each department is divided into studios according to their specialist area. The studios are all led by leading figures of the Czech art scene. Twice a year the school opens to the public for a presentation of student work, entitled “Artsemestr”. Each year the school organises over 15 exhibitions, half of which are shown abroad. Prague UMPRUM, as one of the only schools of former post-communist countries, is featured in the index of prestigious European and world art schools.