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Kovačica (Serbian village) is said to be a place where fairy tales are painted
Ναΐφ τέχνη (Naïve art, ή Toddler art) είναι μία κατηγορία τέχνης που χαρακτηρίζεται από μια παιδικού τύπου απλοϊκότητα, τόσο στην ύλη και το περιεχόμενο όσο και στην τεχνική. Η λέξη Ναΐφ είναι διεθνής πλέον, αλλά προέρχεται από την Γαλλική naive που σημαίνει αφελής. Όμως το δεδομένο ότι υπάρχουν τόσοι πολλοί ναΐφ καλλιτέχνες, με τα έργα τους, οι οποίοι έχουν λίγη ή καθόλου εικαστική παιδεία, αυτό και μόνο αποδεικνύει ότι ο όρος συχνά δεν ισχύει.
The people who make fairy tales literally come to life are the naive painters of Kovačica. Were it not for these astounding artists, this magical place would be just another village in Vojvodina.
And were it not for them, this small village wouldn’t have been visited by world famous celebrities such as the Rolling Stones, Pele and Alain Delon, and even the former president of France François Mitterrand.
Naïve art is inspired by the love for one’s homeland, people and their traditions, as well as luscious nature. In Serbia, naive art usually portrays people in national costumes, their life in the countryside such as them working on a field or in a meadow, their various customs, and everyday moments of love, happiness and sadness.
Naïve art is an art genre often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. Simplicity rather than subtlety are all supposed markers of this art genre.
However, the colourful and fairytale-like paintings, painted on a canvas, stool and even a squash, depicting beautiful rural landscapes and the simple life in Banat, simply make one want to live here. Or at least buy a piece of naive artwork.
Thanks for sharing, the paintings are wonderful.
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Good morning from Athens Ally!! Thank you for reading and enjoy my post!!!
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Greetings from Brisbane. 2.30pm
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❤ ❤ Kisses take care of your eyes!!!
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I am on the waiting list with a public hospital for consultation re: cataract surgery. I don’t drive far these days, usually use public transport . x
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I wish you good luck!!!! Be careful!!
Cataract surgery is a quick and straightforward procedure.
Your eye will feel normal again 24 hours after surgery. However, your sensitivity to light may persist for a few more days.
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Thank you. My doctor said one eye at a time, 2 – 4 weeks between each eye surgery. Then I will need new lens for my glasses. I am sure everything will go well, I need to be patient while waiting. Cheers
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Be cool everything will go fine !! Kisses!!!!
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How fun that The Rolling Stones visited this place and included culture and art on their tours – I guess when you tour as long they did – well they had chances to visit all
Sorts of places –
Also – it was nice to learn about naive art.
I like the skies in the bottom two to the right – the green and white and then the orange and yellow m- but that first photo – now how cool is that – the way it goes back and back –
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Thanks a lot dear for always reading and writing your kind comments!!!!
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Paintings speak the colours of the spirit in the artist. Awesome share Efi . Thank you for introducing me to Naive Art. Would like to go to Kovacica someday to see it up close for real.
Have a beautiful blessed day!!!
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Thank you Savvy !! Here is a greek artist Gianna Xera the post is in greek language but i want to see her paintings that represent my country!!!!
Have a nice weekend!!!!
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Thank you for bringing this amazing artist here through your link share . So much similarity in the Simplicity of the lines and technique …it conveys so much more. Very beautiful art and such a colorful collection.
Do check out the Phad and Madhubani Folk Paintings from India.
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Thank you Savvy !! I will post soon about him!!!!
That’s the reason i love blogging!!!
https://www.craftsvilla.com/blog/indian-art-forms-painting-madhubani-warli/
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Yesrs ago I used to conduct workshops for a few Indian folk paintings. Like Madhubani Lippankaam Warli etc It’s been a long while now but have fond recollections of the joyful times while creating artworks.
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God bless you Savvy !!!! I really really admire you!!!
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I deeply appreciate your wonderful shares bringing forth the amazing talents of these artists and their artwork.
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Moving forward in life taking lessons from the past is how life should be.
((((( HUGS)))))
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Absolutely agree!!!🤗💕👌💕🤗
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These are so wonderful !
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Good morning Sadje!! Thank you!!
The appreciation of naïve art has been a fairly recent phenomenon: many of the artists still living never expected their work to be so eagerly collected.
By the mid-20th century most developed nations had naïve artists who had risen to some prominence.
While some naïve painters consider themselves professional artists and seek public recognition of their work, others refuse to exhibit for profit and paint only for their families or for religious institutions.
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A very good morning to you too. The pictures do look fit for any fairy tale.
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Υes that’s why i love them !!!!!!!!!!
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Fabulous! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Τhank you Jo!!!! I want you to know that your opinion is of great importance to me!!! ❤
Have a nice weekend and Happy Easter!!!!!!
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Kαλημέρα και ευχαριστώ πολύ!!!
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Love this post, stunning paintings! I love your posts, the diversity, the facts, the history and the stories! 💕💕💕🌷
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Thanks a lot Sonia for always reading and writing your kind comments!!!
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…Naive painting was always a part of the tradition of the ex-Yugoslavian artists, especially in Croatia where I was born and raised, from where it originated this special Yugoslavian Naive Art Style (in Podravina, small north-eastern part of Croatia, in the village of Hlebine by the city of Koprivnica by artist Ivan Generalic, and in the city of Djurdjevac by artist Ivan Lackovic-Croata). Nice of you to mention this… 🙂
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You are most welcome. Thanks for stopping by and for commenting!
Thank you also for the informations you let me know!!!
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At first I tough we, the Croats, invented naive painting (it was very famous in ex-Yugoslavia and in world in general), then I looked at its history. It seems it’s much older…
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Good morning Ianus from Athens!!
Nobody knows exactly when the first naive artists appeared on the scene, as from the very first manifestations of art right up to the days of the “Modern Classic”, naive artists quite unconsciously bequeathed us unmistakable signs of their creative activity.
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an “official” position in the annals of twentieth-century art since – at the very latest – the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912.
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier’ Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples.
However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was “discovered” was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries.
From … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_art
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Well said, Efi! Greetings from south Bavaria! 🙂
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