IVAN GENERALIĆ / 1930-1945

2.2.2010

The launch of the monograph IVAN GENERALIĆ 1930-1945 by Svjetlana Sumpor, published by the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, will take place on February 4, 2010, in the premises of the CMNA. At the same time a cameo and critical exhibition of works created between 1930 and 1945 will be opened; this exhibition will be on view until March 7, 2010. Ivan Generalić (Hlebine, December 21, 1914 – Koprivnica, November 27, 1992) is a classic of the world’s Naïve, and chronologically the first painter of the Croatian Naïve, as well as a distinguished figure in the figurative art of the 20th century. Discovered as a talented fifteen-year-old rural lad, by 1931 he had already started exhibiting; in the fifties, he made a breakthrough into the broader spaces of Europe and elsewhere. His oeuvre can be divided into several stylistic and morphological as well as poetic units. The monograph IVAN GENERALIĆ 1930-1945 deals with the artist’s early period, which covers his childish, his Zemlja and his lyrical or “bel canto” phases. The text of the monograph is published in Croatian and in English. The catalogue of works provides reproductions of all the extant works created in this period, and any available information about works that are not extant. The monograph is furnished with a list of Generalić’s individual and collective exhibitions, a bibliography related to the given period, with photographs from the life of the artist, a foreword by Vladimir Crnković, and a fragment from the review by Marijan Špoljar. Publisher: Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, Zagreb 2009 Reviewers: Vladimir Crnković, Marijan Špoljar English translation: Graham McMaster Design: Studio Rašić, Zagreb; Ante Rašić, Ana Sladetić Scans: Art studio Azinović, Zagreb Printed by: Printera, Zagreb Format: 26 x 21 cm Contains 224 pages, 244 reproductions Price: 100 kuna