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Flanking the door to the next room are works by the next generation of naive art—two
big-name followers who were inspired (if not trained) by Generali
ć
: on the left, the grue-
some
Evangelists on Calvary
crucifix, by
Ivan Ve
č
enaj,
who focused on religious scenes;
andontheright,
Winter Landscape with Woman,
by
Mijo Kova
č
i
ć
,
whospecializedinpeas-
ant landscapes.
Room 2:
The next room features more works by Ve
č
enaj and Kova
č
i
ć
. Studying
Kova
č
i
ć
's many landscapes, notice how he took a style of painting pioneered by Generali
ć
and brought it to the next level. Winter scenes were most common, because the peasant
artists were busy working the fields the rest of the year. (Early on, such artists were some-
times called “Sunday painters,” because they had to work their “real” jobs from Monday to
Saturday.) Kova
č
i
ć
also enjoyed winter scenes for the evocative black-and-white contrast
they allowed. Like Dalí, Magritte, and other surrealists, Kova
č
i
ć
juxtaposed super-realism
(look at each individual hair on the swine in his painting
Swineherd,
pictured below) with
