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that naïve art originates from this land – paintings by those
who weren’t painters, derived from still fresh sources that inspire
the “soul of the people”, smelling still like “flowers and
herbs”, even on the paintings, conveying the best that is hidden
“deeply in people”.
In the same way our naïve painters impressed the world,
the music of the brass bands from Guča confused the world during
the last decade. (When Miles Davis, one of the greatest jazz
musicians in the world, heard the “Serbian trumpet” he said: “I
never imagined you could play the trumpet that way”).
Both phenomena are similar to each other. Self-training.
Village. Soul of the people. A talent instead of education. Distance
and isolation from the world’s art and music tendencies.
Weak education (“My schoolbooks – those are my fields, my
books, that is my life, says Vukosava Andrić). Reliance on the
environment’s spiritual tradition. A sense of ethnic origin.
Tradition as an inspiration. Universality that one reaches
diving into the local. Honesty. Emotion. Originality. Threat of the
commercialisation. Danger of falling into a mannerist, folklorist
stereotype. Spontaneous group organisation, the so-called brass
or painting “schools” (which is not only of practical importance,
but testimony of common people’s feelings, who stand out from
the rest only with their “God-given” talent, that art isn’t only
about individual efforts and personal affirmation, rather its about
a collective testimony, understanding of the collective fate and
expression of the collective awareness, where there is not much
room for “creative vanity”).
In the shadow of Suvobor Mountain, the poet Obrad
Vasiljević from the village of Pranjani wrote in a self-descriptive
verse the slogan “essentially barefoot”.
In Serbia, the first “essentially barefoot” painter was
probably Janko Brašić from Oparić, who had his first exhibition in
1937 in a primary school classroom and which was noted down
by newspapers.
After the war, Janko gathered the painters from his
Од фолклорног маниризма „сеоске наиве”, преко минуциозног
и технички савршеног „наивног реализма” Саве Стојкова,
до аутентичне „апстрактне” фантастике Илије Башићевића
- Босиља: Босиљ „Свети Ђорђе убија аждају”
From folklore mannerism of “the Rural Naïve”, through minutiae
and technical perfection of the “Naïve Realism” of Sava Stojkov
to the original “abstract” fiction of Ilija Bašičević-Bosilj
Bosilj “Saint George kills the dragon”
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area, the so-called “school of Oparić”. He was there in 1960
when the Gallery of Self-taught painters was founded in Jagodina.
Today it is the Museum of Naïve Art. The first paintings
collected in the museum were works by Janko Brašić and by
other painters from the “school of Oparić”. (Almost all examples
of the naïve art painting style printed in this book are in
that gallery’s possession).