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In my master’s thesis I narrow the subject of illustration in relation to set design, as described in my bachelor’s thesis, to the topic of drawing in performing arts. The work is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part aims at defining key concepts for the selected topic. Subsequently, I situate them in the context of theater, outlining the historical development of the use of drawing in performing arts and citing contemporary examples from this artistic field. In this part I mention some specific works, artists, and artistic groups concerned with these expressive means. The second part of the thesis is a practical reflection of my own theatrical work that was created during my graduate studies. Using my own experience and knowledge I attempt here to substantiate the claims made in the theoretical part.

This diploma thematically follows on my bachelor thesis The Choices for stagemanaging native tribes' mythic narrativesfrom the point of view of the stage designer. In my Bachelor Thesis I focused mainly on the research that preceded the production of my bachelor show Drink coffee, ride reindeer, as well as the mapping of the work itself, including the reflection. Now I extend my field of interest. I deal with myths, fairy tales and dreams, both in my own and in foreign works. I try to point out the points of contact between these three phenomena and to find their manifestations in the theater as well as in the visual arts. At the same time, I devote myself to describing how I build my own production, what is important to me in creation, and where I notice similar trends in other contemporary art.

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The thesis deals with the developmental period of preschool-aged and early school- aged children and their drawing of a figure. The theoretical part describes the children's development at this time and also their developmental oddities and determinants that influence the development. It follows up the children's drawing, its developmental stages and especially the drawing of a human figure. The practical part focuses on the drawing of a human figure created by children in kindergartens and elementary schools. It's divided into two stages. At the first stage there is the drawing evaluated according to the Draw-a-person Test written in 1982 by J. Šturm and M. Vágnerová. The discovered values are interpreted from the qualitative and quantitative point of view. The attention is paid to remarkable events at the second stage. The practical part validates or disproves given hypotheses. The whole dissertation, its contribution to research and use for pedagogical workers are summarized in the conclusion. Key words: Preschool-age, early school-age, children's development, development of a drawing, drawing of a human figure, draw-a-person test, evaluation, case study

The Development of child drawing and it is potential in diagnostics The theoretical part of my thesis deals with the development of children's drawing and its subsequent interpretations. The drawing is defined in the thesis together with its development, patterns and peculiarities. The thesis is based on findings from the specialised literature that characterize children's development and its origins in the artwork and school age. Emphasis is also placed on tests to evaluate school readiness, child's overall development and psychological condition. The contribution of the teaching profession at primary school is maximized. The practical part includes the analysis of children's drawings normal and enchanted family, human character and favorite activities or interests in terms of pedagogical-psychological diagnosis. The drawings are complemented by other methods, such as interview, observation of the child and questionnaires for parents and teachers used to approach family background and medical history of the child.

This thesis is focused on the dynamic drawing analysis. It deals with tracing drawing tests that can be applied for the analysis. It also deals with method for temporal segmentation of emerging drawings and also vectorization of resulted segments of drawings.

Artetherapy with mentally handicapped persons is very extensive and diverse, just like various forms of mental retardation. The first objective of the present thesis was to ascertain which artetherapeutic procedures and art techniques can be applied when working with mentally handicapped clients. The second objective was to ascertain whether artetherapy helps to develop the overall personality in a positive way, whether it propitiously affects concentration, skilfulness and memory, or whether it supports creativity and socialization of the mentally handicapped. The third objective was to ascertain how mentally handicapped persons would react if they were given the opportunity to work creatively. To research the problems described, the author chose the quantitative technique. Methods applied were: observation, non-standard interview, content analysis of the data from medical and psychological documents and analysis of personal documents. The target group was 7 persons living in the ``Barevný svět{\crqq} Daily Centre. Having made use of previous knowledge, I made three hypotheses. H1: ``Mentally handicapped persons need a sufficient amount of time to acquire the technique that would help them express themselves more easily.{\crqq} H2: ``Artetherapy helps to develop the overall personality in a positive way, it propitiously affects concentration, skilfulness and positive thinking and last but not least, it supports creativity and socialization of the mentally handicapped.{\crqq} H3: ``Mentally handicapped persons positively react to the opportunity to work creatively, they are sincerely interested in this work, and they show great excitement about the results that they have achieved.{\crqq} The research has proved that the clients need to be given a lot of time to acquire painting and drawing techniques in order to express themselves in a better way. However, we must say that there is no single particular technique or procedure that we would be able to apply with each and every mentally handicapped person. The research results have confirmed that artetherapy helps to develop the overall personality, it propitiously affects concentration, skilfulness and positive thinking and last but not least, it supports creativity and socialization of the mentally handicapped. React to the opportunity to work creatively, they are sincerely interested in their work, and they show great excitement about the results that they have achieved.

The topic of my diploma thesis is drawing; it follows from the title ? Utilization of Unusual Drawing Techniques in Art at Elementary School. There are two parts in my diploma thesis? the theoretical one and the practical one. The first chapter introduces the phenomenon of drawing ? it is about drawing, its principles and colours. The second chapter is about Art at school - teacher?s duties, children?s personalities and about Art. At the end of theoretical part there is the third chapter about history of drawing. We can see the differences between historical and current styles of drawing in pictures at the end of the diploma thesis. The practical part is focused methodologically and it shows several techniques which can be inspiration for teachers at elementary school. Several photos of children?s drawings included as attachment to my diploma theses.