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This bachelor thesis examines the unique life of fine artists. This work aims to understand how fine artists understand and experience their artistic creation. The thesis consists of a theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part is devoted to art and artistic creation in the context of psychology, the emphasis is placed on selected fundamental psychological approaches. The empirical part examines how artists understand and experience their artistic creation based on the realisation and processing of in-depth semi-structured interviews with three fine artists aged 51, 35 and 41 years. The psychological qualitative approach - interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was chosen to understand the unique lived experience of the examined fine artists. The results of the analysis and interpretation of interviews are 3 portraits, which depict the perspective of the examined artists, their unique lived experience and subjectively significant mainstays of their life and artistic creation. The other results are 4 main themes that capture the relation between the experiences of individual respondents, map the most important topics and reveal the essence of the examined phenomenon. The following main themes crystallised out of the available data: "Creation as…", "More than profession", "Artist as...

The topic of hallucinogens use is currently very actual. According the Annual Report on Drug Situation in the Czech Republic in 2015, the lifetime prevalence of LSD use in the population is 3.1 % and 5.4 % hallucinogenic mushrooms, but it is higher among young adults (5.7 % and 9,2 %) (Mravčík et al., 2016). Users of hallucinogens tend to be a people devoted to various forms of artistic activity. The thesis aim is to determine whether and how selected hallucinogenic drugs use may affect artistic production (from the perspective of users). Data has been obtained through the method of unstructured interview. Further the research tries to inquire, whether the use of hallucinogens may impact a subsequent creation of sober artists, and whether it is possible to find some typical patterns in use of hallucinogens by artists. The work is structured as qualitative study consisting of theoretical description of the problem and of methodological part. The previous is therefore presenting theoretical definition of art, artistic creation and creativity, theoretical analysis of the connection between hallucinogens use and art, including ritual art. The final section focuses on practical application and is based primarily on research formed by informant's statements. Thesis is complemented by photographic...

Title: Compared creative approaches in creating a dance composition. Goals: The aim of this thesis is to find similarities and differences in the creative approaches of selected Czech and foreign authors of choreographies. Methods: A qualitative research and casuistry as the main research method was selected for this thesis. Namely comparative studies, which together with the survey through semistructured (depth) interview, conducted with selected experts in the field of choreography, compared the two cases among themselves - Czech choreographers with foreign reformers. Results: In the research part of the thesis, based on the literature research and accomplished investigation, there are similarities and differences found in creative approaches of Czech choreographers and foreign reformers. The outcome of the research is a comparative table following the life and work of choreographers in three areas: the entry conditions, the process of creation and creation outputs. Research has found possible functional approaches to dance practice and experience. Keywords: Art, dance, choreography, creation, comparation.

This thesis is questioning the meanings of artistic creation. It is divided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The first part introduces the topic through seven fundamental psychological approaches. The second part tracks the question of the meanings of artistic creation using qualitative half-structured interviews with three painters. During the interview analysis and interpretation, additional text and image documents are included as supplementary sources. Subjectively important topics that are linked to individual's artistic creation formed their so-called internal story of creation as the first output of analysis and data interpretation. Moreover, all three stories are compared with psychological approaches within the model of De Botton and Armstrong (2014), extended by a mutual comparison among artists and unification of various psychological approaches. Key words: creation, meaning, art, purpose, value

The Thesis aims to explore the problem of Freedom and Creativity in Nietzsche. It attempts to do so in respect to the two main concepts of his high and late writings. Concept of Superman and concept of the Eternal recurrence of the same. In this respect our text follows especially interpretations of Martin Heidegger. We begin our treatise with situating Nietzsche's concept of freedom among more traditional thought and we put emphasis on comparison of it to the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. In the next phase we reject (with Martin Heidegger and Ivan Dubský) simplifying understanding of the Eternal reccurence which understands it as dull determinism. We also analyse the topic of Creativity in Nietzsche and introduce it as fundamental anthropological theme. In the following chapters we identify certain moods that allow us to experience perspective of the Eternal reccurence and the one of Superman, which gives us chance to understand both concepts in their connection. But this connection remains enigmatic and in the last chapter we try, with help of Kierkegaard's concept of the moment, to understand both thoughts in their complementarity not only united in the concept of creativity, but also through Nietzsche's concept of the moment, understood as the original understanding of one of the aspects of...