Miroslav Klivar
Art critic, painter, graphic artist, glass artist, poet, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. Born 1932 in Košice. Graduated from Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague (1951-55). 1955-60 worked as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and from 1960-69 at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His work lies at the intersection of poetry, body art / performance and video art.
In 1965 he started using the computer to produce the first plotter drawings, which were presented in the same year at the group exhibition Nová grafika, in Prague on the island of Kampa. He bought his own computer in 1968 in order to create independent graphics and design. Since 1969 he has conducted basic research and designed at the Institute of Industrial Design in Prague (until 1990). 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.
Awarded the prize for Applied and Industrial Arts of the union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists (1969). 1970-74 employed as a part time lecturer at the Secondary School of Industrial Arts in Prague. 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. 1974-78 taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. He has also been involved with Mail art and Postal art in the late 70s. 1983 recieved the Vitezslav Nezval medal for poetry. 1994 recieved the grand prize of the First European festival of Video art in the Czech Republic.
Since 1990 he worked as an art teacher and psychotherapist. He is the president of the European Union of arts and a member of the Czech-German Cultural Alliance. Since 1999 he works as a professor at the World Distributed University in Brussels. In 2004 he recieved a prize for poetry at the International Literature Competition 2, Convivio, Italy.
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
- Miroslav Vejlupek, "Portrét prezidenta", Chůdové kořeny, Vol 2, No 1, February 2003.
- Miroslav Klivar, "České počítačové umění (1)", Chůdové kořeny, Vol 2, No 2, June 2003.
- Miroslav Klivar, "České počítačové umění (2)", Chůdové kořeny, Vol 2, No 3, October 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
- http://www.v-art.cz/chudove_koreny/r02c01/anti-morpheus/vejlupek_portret.htm
