Museum of Naive and Marginal Artwork – The Centre of Naive Artwork in Serbia

Enthusiastic about visiting the Museum of Naive and Marginal Artwork (Muzej Naivne i Marginalne Umetnosti) in Belgrade? Learn on to comply with our full expertise of visiting this fascinating museum.

Ranging from how we received there:

Attending to Museum of Naive and Marginal Artwork

We crossed the one bridge in Belgrade over the Danube River – the previous steel, heavy factor in-built 1935.  

As soon as on the opposite facet of Belgrade we continued in direction of Pancevo metropolis, well-known for its accident-prone factories which generally pollute the entire of Belgrade.

Because it was Sunday, the day for the native antiques market, we couldn’t resist stopping for a fast browse for a “whole lot”. We didn’t get something besides an previous CD for 50p which labored till music quantity 4. Regardless, we thought-about it an excellent deal.

Crossing the Danube River means coming into the flat Pannonia Plain the place you orientate your self solely by the following tree or lonely home. Contemplating that the official alphabet in Serbia is Cyrillic and that street indicators are uncommon then that tree or home takes on extra significance throughout your journey.

Nature right now of yr (Might) generously painted every little thing in a lush inexperienced cloaking the bushes and homes from sight. Every part seemed the identical particularly for 4 metropolis women.

Confused and drained by the oppressive warmth we determined to cease alongside the way in which at Salas, referred to as Sekin Salas which implies Sisters Ranch. If you wish to expertise the true Serbia it is best to attempt to keep at one of many many ranches which provide a mixture of rural Serbia with good meals, clear air and many actions – horse driving, fishing, cooking lessons…embroidery lessons…

Throughout our hour cease we managed to fulfill the loveable Rasha, a ginger corgi who we thought-about stealing away, however after realising that Rasha has pals on the Ranch – three cats, two goats, a pheasant, an over-protective hen with eight yellow chicks and two extra canines lazily asleep within the entrance backyard – we determined that Rasha had a greater life than we did, so we left him in his pure environment.

After refreshments and taking photographs of every little thing that represented the previous, disappearing Serbia that was so generously on show in the home, we continued driving in direction of Kovacica, a spot well-known for its Slovak naive artwork.

The Museum of Naive and Marginal Artwork is located centrally on the principle road. 

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Visiting the Museum of Naive and Marginal Artwork in Belgrade

The Museum itself may be very small however very wealthy within the numbers of work they personal so the exhibition retains altering on a regular basis. The primary one to strike you is a large, vibrant and full of life portray by Jan Glozik illustrating the 200 years because the Slovak folks moved from what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the jap border, these days Serbia, by order of the Emperor. The portray consists of 200 folks representing every year since they moved to this a part of the world. When you’ve got an excellent eye you possibly can see a self-portrait of the painter integrated into the maze of colors.

The left facet of the museum has an exhibition of one other well-known naïve artwork painter, Martin Janos, whose work emphasise the palms and ft and thereby the arduous guide work on the farms of the area.

The third room is devoted to the Queen of naïve artwork, Zuzana Halupova. There are 31 work exhibited right here, most of them oil on canvas. She, as with Martin Janos, has a leitmotif which is that every portray has a lady in a pink skirt someplace in it. Zuzana by no means had youngsters of her personal and so she put one in each one in every of her work. She was member of the youngsters’s charity UNICEF and in 1974 she painted the UNICEF Christmas Card which was bought worldwide.  She left greater than 1000 work to the museum however because of the lack of the house solely a sure quantity could be proven.

There are talks a couple of new, greater Museum to be opened in a special location.

Outdoors the Museum there’s a courtyard with three galleries, in one in every of them you possibly can have your individual portrait painted. All of the galleries are run by native painters who can inform you about native life and the way they’ve preserved their tradition and traditions for over 200 years. Mr Pavel Babka, a profitable painter who displays all world wide and is the proprietor of the most important gallery, identified that even when a painter turns into worldwide profitable, he nonetheless stays in Kovacica, inside very sturdy Slovak Group.

Study extra in regards to the present exhibitions on their website.