art, touch, aesthetic experience, surrealism, baroque art,

The paper deals with the place and importance of touch in an aesthetic experience of art, especially in the area of the fine art. The theoretical statements are documented and supported by examples of particular artworks. Different aspects and relations of touch and visual art are to be addressed: the place of touch in the process of creation of the artworks, touch as an explicit theme of artworks especially in baroque art, and the place of touch in the process of reception of artworks. An importance of touch for the surrealist artists is underlined,, and the Czech surrealist artist Jan Švankmajer?s theory and artworks of ?tactile art? are discussed.