Miroslav Klivar
Art critic, painter, graphic artist, glass artist, poet, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. Born 1932 in Košice. Graduated from Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Prague. His work lies at the intersection of poetry, body art / performance and video art. He has used the computer to produce the first plotter drawings since 1965 and bought his personal computer in 1968 to create independent graphics and design. Since 1969 he has conducted basic research and designed at the Institute of Industrial Design in Prague. He organised the second international exhibition of computer art, Computer and Art, in Czech Republic at the Film Club in Prague featuring George Nees, Frieder Nake and Kerry Strand, in 1968
His graphics are categorised by mainly geometric structures in a monochrome or complementary colour. He works with the principle of chance – lines, ellipses or other geometric forms are transformed, enlarged, turned and rotated. To this day, he works with computer graphics and design, with which he decorates ceramics and textiles.
His body art activities began in 1972 as a protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the army of the then still existing Soviet Union. He has also been involved with Mail art and Postal art in the late 70’s.
He is the president of the European Union of arts and a member of the Czech-German Cultural Alliance.
Currently he works as a professor at the World Distributed University in Brussels.
Publications
- Miroslav Klivar, Technological Art its Aesthetics, Bratislava, 1967
- Miroslav Klivar, Aesthetics of Industrial Labour, České Budějovice, 1968
- Miroslav Klivar, Estetika nových umění - Aesthetics of New Arts, Praha, 1970
- Miroslav Klivar, V.P. Zincenko, In medical field: The Psychotherapy of Perception of Images, Prague, 1974
- Čechová Zdeňka, Miroslav Klivar, Aplikace počítačové grafiky v textilním průmyslu ČSSR, Praha: Ústav batové a oděvní kultury, 1981.
- Miroslav Klivar, "Počítačová grafika v súčasnej výtvarnej kultúre", Výtvarníctvo, fotografia, film, No 10, 1986
- Miroslav Klivar, "Počítač v umění a v experimentální estetice", Estetika No 3, 1986
- Miroslav Klivar, "Počítačová a laserová grafika", Krajská pedagogický ústav Brno, 1988
- Miroslav Klivar, "Počítačové umění v architektuře", Ateliér, No 21, pp 1-2, 1989
- Miroslav Klivar, "Počítače a umění", Ateliér, No 5, p 7, 1990
- Miroslav Klivar, Český kubismus v architektuře, Prague: Masarykova akademie umění: Forpex, 1992
- Miroslav Klivar, II futurismo ceco, Prague-Rome, 1995
- Miroslav Klivar, Exoaesthetics, Praha-Houston, 1997
- Miroslav Klivar, Česká skleněná plastika, Břeclav: Moraviapress, 1999
- Miroslav Klivar, New Arts in Bohemia, Prague, 2001
- Miroslav Klivar, New Art Therapy and Psychopaedy, Prague, 2002
- Miroslav Klivar, Ergoterapie mladistvých - Juvenile Ergotherapy, Prague, 2003
External links
- http://www.sca-art.cz/artists/list/3433.htm
- http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/4453
- http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Klivar
