Genesis of portrait: The study of family members and transformation of interpretation of family portrait

Václav Švadlena, thesis consists of two parts, the theoretical and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with the portrait its history, forms of portraiture and the gradual transition from painting to photography. The theoretical work contains chapters devoted to the authors: Francisco Goya and Alberto Giacometti. The practical part contains a set of sketches in the form of artist´s books exploring family genetic markers. I tis supplemented by the cycle of portraits the tetraptych of large-scale drawings. The aim is to inform about the phenomenon of a portrait, to create the artist´s books of sketches and a set of large drawings family portraits