This week has been mostly painting with a few trips around the city thrown into class time. Continuing with our slight obsession with Alphonse Mucha, our class went to go see his series “Slav Epic” in the National Gallery. It consists of 20 HUGE paintings that depict the history of the Czech and Slavic people which he gave to the city of Prague upon its’ completion in 1928. I honestly wasn’t aware that these even existed, and it was a great surprise and shock to see how amazing the pieces were.
This week our class was also taken to one of Prague’s design schools. We were able to go through the students’ studios and see what kids our age have been doing here. It was really cool, and the building sort of reminded me of a taller version of our own design building.. except with less strict fire codes. It was awesome to be able to wander around though, they had some beautiful glass and pottery work, and I did really like the graphic design studio. I felt like a total nerd because of how good it felt to be surrounded by typography again.
As with my own designing, here’s an update on my paintings, i still have 3.2 more to do for Thursday and then I’m DONE with classes! This series is supposed to be our reflection or Prague, and the pieces themselves need to each incorporate some sort of reflection.
A Place in Prague 