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Zuzka Medved'ova

There are no translations availableZuzka Medved'ova jedna z prvých Akademických Sloveniek Akademicka maliarka Zuzka Medved'ova patrila k...

Karol Miloslav Lehotsky

The Creative Work of Karol Miloslav Lehotský
by Vladimír Valentík The creative work of Karol Miloslav Lehotský consists of his...

Martin Jonas (1924-1996)

Martin Jonas (1924-1996) is probably the most significant and greatest artist of the Kovacica naive art, who had, thanks to his imagination,...

Galéria Zuzky Medveďovej

There are no translations available Galéria Zuzky Medveďovej V priebehu činnosti Galérie Zuzky Medveďovej v svojich...

Zuzana Chalupova (1925-2001)

Zuzana Chalupova (1925-2001) The artistic opus of Zuzana Chalupova (1925-2001) consists most often of the figural compositions of genre...

Kovacica's past and the genesis of the naive art

Kovacica's past and the genesis of
the naive art During the migration of a part of the Slovak population to the "lower...

Jan Knazovic (1925-1985)

Jan Knazovic

Jan Knazovic (1925-1985) belongs to the group of the most significant representatives of the Kovacica nai've painting. He was the most original and boldest painter of the Kovacica naive art who did not prevent his rich imagination from fully expressing and overcoming the natural desire of a nai've painter to imitate reality as accu-rately as possible. While painting, Jan Knazovic restyled, with an artistic tendency, the imitated motives in order to create his own authentic and unique pictorial world. He also did not refrain from using colours on the basis of their inner, emotional values, and not only on the basis of mimetic principles. Thus, for instance, the painted animals, the leaves in the trees or even the trees themselves could be blue or pink.

Jan Knazovic was the painter of the night, although he did the scenes from daily life as well. Under the veil of his "ultramarine nights" flew the merry countryside life or his miraculous artistic world.

The pictures of Jan Knazovic seem quite flat. In the two-dimensional dark space of the picture, Jan Knazovic laid down linearly the village houses, trees, flowers, animals and people, and he showed his inclination towards compositional multiplication of the same or similar motives. His strongly expressed sense of symmetry, in the compositional plane of the painting, enabled their unique arrangement and some kind of oneiric tone.

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