Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
 The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (AFAD) (Slovak: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave abbr. VŠVU) is an academy in Bratislava Slovakia. AFAD was founded in 1949 at the dawn of totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. For next forty years the institution was under the pressure of political doctrine promoting so called socialist realism in arts as well as suffering the political purges affecting badly the whole society.