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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 aim of the diploma thesis is a presentation of the detailed portraits of fictional artists and musicians in selected short stories and novels by Willa Cather. The diploma thesis contains three main chapters. The first chapter is focused on the delineation of the context of Willa Cather's writing. The chapter presents the author's biography focused on the musical impulses and crucial turns of Cather's authorship development as well as brief biographical facts about the real artistic personalities who inspired Cather's fictional characters. The second chapter concerns with the analysis of the fictional artistic characters in selected short stories by Willa Cather. The third chapter deals with the analysis of the fictional artistic characters in selected novels by Willa Cather.