ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - A plane carrying boxes with the works of Croatian naive painters took off on Monday from Zagreb airport toward Florida. The paintings will be displayed at the Museum of Beautiful Arts in St. Petersburg from
February 13 to May 28, 2000. This is the first time Croatian naive art will be presented under the Croatian name.
ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - A plane carrying boxes with the works of
Croatian naive painters took off on Monday from Zagreb airport
toward Florida.
The paintings will be displayed at the Museum of Beautiful Arts in
St. Petersburg from February 13 to May 28, 2000. This is the first
time Croatian naive art will be presented under the Croatian name.
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The exhibition is the crown of two-year-long attempts to present to
the world anthological works and naive painters who for decades are
recognised in Croatia and abroad as classics of naive art.
The authors of the exhibition are the head of the Museum of
Beautiful Arts, Michael Milkovich, an American of Croat descent,
the head of the Croatian Museum of Naive Art in Zagreb, Franjo
Mrzljak, and the museum's curator Vladimir Crnkovic.
Croatian naive painters Emerik Fejes, Dragan Gazi, Ivan and Josip
Generalic, Mijo Kovacic, Ivan Lackovic Croata, Ivan Rabuzin,
Matija Skurjeni, Ivan Vecenaj and Marko Virius will be presented
with ten paintings each.
The value of the exhibits has been estimated at some seven million
German marks.
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