Croatian Naive Art

"In Croatia the concept of the Naive assumes the work of artists who arrived from amateurism, people who are more or less self-taught, painters and sculptors who did not obtain their education by systematic training at art schools and academies, which did not, however, prevent them from creating their own style, achieving their own level of art. An identifiably individual style and an individual poetics that is always there pick the Naive out quite clearly from the various examples of amateurism and dilettantism, from "Sunday" and "vernacular" painters and sculptors, and from all the rest of the undifferentiated mass of the self-taught. Since the artists of the Naive do not know how to construct a work according to the lessons of the academies, there are always certain departures in their works in proportions and perspective, and numerous "illogicalities in form and space. A positive evaluation of such characteristics, as the expression of the free creative imagination, could come into being only after Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and the other movements and phenomena of the Modern Movement had already been experienced. This clearly shows that the Naive is also a 20th century form of expression and is in key with the modern sensibility."

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[arenadri7]

Homage - 28.October (1889-1943) - died MIRKO VIRIUS, important painter of Croatian Naive Art, of Hlebine School .

[KatarinaZrinska]

@arenadri7 ok thanks..hvala.

[SkreetGil]

OMG that's beautiful! I'm American of Croatian blood. I just found out about these pieces of art! They are beautiful! I need to visit my ancestral home and learn more.

[KatarinaZrinska]

@SkreetGil yes..you must definitely come and visit Croatia, your ancestral home.

[krstatice]

*****

E tako .... Lijepo je biti prvi :))

Sad te prepuštam drugima ...

I pozdravljam

[KatarinaZrinska]

Jel da su lijepi ovi naši 'naivci'.

[arenadri7]

IN MEMORIAM - KRSTO HEGEDUŠIĆ - on November 26 (1901-1975) is his 110 anniversary; famous Croatian painter was among founder of Group Earth and initiator of Hlebine School. As painter Hegedušić was occupied with very serious contents, hard social motifs.

[palm8295able]

Ja sam prava Švicarskina, ali imam isti strast za naivni umjetnost.

Super da ima napokon nešto od tog kulturno bogatsvo.

Pozdrav.

[adraganz]

predivno, samo mnogo brzo idu slike?!

[timotimekvej]

Naive art was created by Slovak people from village of Kovacica and it later spread.

[miledavidovic]

Predivno....

[domrat5]

I like them all...my personal favorite is at 0:44. I like the forest and the deer..the hunter in me speaks...and I like the fishing seen at 1:15