Museums and galleries need visitors. One of the objectives of the cultural institution is making available its collections and education. School groups, from pre- primary to high school are the largest percentage of visitors. There needs to be cooperation between the museum / gallery and the school offers programs. Museums and art galleries therefore need to be involved in the education of children from the earliest age to cultivate in them future visitors and thus art lovers and culturally educated individuals in general.
Mediation of visual art using animations and art therapy is one of the processes commonly used in art galleries and museums in Western Europe to increase the public’s engagement with art. This paper discusses these methods and the potential for their application in Slovak galleries with the goal of making these methods more widely known and encourages their adoption in museum and gallery practice. In the first part, we examine the nature of art, its importance and its role in museum and gallery education. The second part of the paper then analyses the concept of gallery animation, its objectives, methods, typology and various ways of its implementation using specific examples. In the final section, the paper turns to the issue of mediation of visual art in art therapy and various ways of implementing the methodology in the conditions of Slovak art galleries and museums.
The article offers information on the exhibition 'Biedermeier. Art and Culture in the Czech countries 1814 - 1848' and the resulting extensive publication (527 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It presents basic insight according to the logical structure of the publication: Predispositions and Roots, Applied Arts and Life-style, Biedermeier in Fine Arts and Tradition and Modernity and the Catalogue comprised of approximately 700 entries.
The article offers information on the exhibition The 200 Years of the Fine Arts Academy Munich and the resulting extensive publication (589 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It concentrates on the role of the academy in pursuing artistic progress in 19th century painting with a specific stress put on contacts with the environment in Eastern Europe (e.g. painters Mihaly Munkacsy, Laszlo Mednaszky).
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