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Muzej naivne i
marginalne umetnosti
u Jagodini
Museum of Naïve
and Marginal Art
Jagodina, Serbia
35000 Jagodina
Boška Đuričića 10.
tel/fax: (+381 35) 223 419
mnujagodina@gmail.com
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Self-portrait, 1960,
oil-canvas, 90x70cm |
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A REVIEW OF HIS WORK
Originality, narratability, realistic treatment
A review of his work
The development of Serbian naive art officially starts with the work of
Janko Brasic. His earliest works (portraits) date from 1933.
Rustic elementary realism is his way of expressing primordial relations
with his surroundings. Lacking professional routine his painting seem
bitter and sounding. Scenes are mainly presented in a rural landscape;
they possess bright colorization, without explicitly expressed focus.
However, the most expressive are his psychological portraits. With
almost six decades of fruitful work Janko Brasic will remain the symbol
of naive art in Serbia and Oparic will be widely famous as his
home-land…
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About himself
I made my self-portrait as a testimony so that my fellow-countrymen
would stay calm. If I painted someone else they could accuse me of the
lack of resemblance since I got the picture and the man whose portrait I
had made wouldn't be there for them to see him immediately.
Well, this is how it was!… It was easy for me to make the portrait of
myself … I looked at myself in the mirror and that's how I painted.
(Vreme, 15th May 1935)
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EXHIBITIONS
He had one-man shows in London, Paris, Brussels, Munich, Parma,
Trebinje, Zagreb, Belgrade, Cacak, Jagodina…
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Portrait of mother, 1935,
oil-canvas, 54x48cm |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monograph:
Miroslava Boskovic, Janko Brasic, Belgrade 1982
Monographic catalogue:
Ljiljana Kojic, on Janko Brasic in: 5 awarded artists, MNA, Jagodina 1990
Svadbeno kolo, 1967
oil-canvas, 55x69cm |
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Encyclopaedias on naive art:
Bihalji Merin, O., Yugoslavia - naive art, Belgrade 1959
Bihalji Merin, O., Yugoslav naive art, Belgrade 1963
Bihalji Merin, O., Naive artists of the world, Belgrade-Ljubljana 1971
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., Self-taught artists in Serbia, Torino 1977
Dimitrijevic, K., Naive art in Yugoslavia, Belgrade 1979
Kelemen, B., Yugoslav Naive Painting, Zagreb 1969
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., A Monograph, MNA, Jagodina 1979
Yugoslav Art Encyclopaedia A-J, Zagreb 1984
., on Janko Brasic in: Serbian Naive Art, Belgrade 1993
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Park, 1935,
oil-canvas, 38,5x63,5cm |
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Portrait of Daughter, 1939,
oil-canvas, 66x41cm |
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Janko Brasic, A party/gathering, 1959
oil-canvas, 75 x 100cm |
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