Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Room 5:
On the left, see
Matija Skurjeni
's almost crayon-like
Animal World
(1961).
While it looks like the roll call for Noah's ark, it's loaded with symbolism. The dinosaur
is Skurjeni's self-portrait, the other large animals are his friends and artistic colleagues, the
butterflies fluttering around represent spirituality (a new spin on the white dove of the Holy
Spirit)...and the devil in the base of the tree, with wings and a crown, is one of Skurjeni's
harshest critics—who also happened to be the curator of this museum at the time. On the
other side of the door,
Drago Jurak
's
Luxury Boat
(1974) looks like a Bollywood
Titanic
.
On the right are works by naive artists from other countries (Russia, Japan, France, and Po-
land).
Room 6:
Here you'll see pencil sketches used by naive artists to create their works (in-
cluding one for Generali
ć
's
Solar Eclipse
). After the sketch was complete, the artist would
put it against a pane of glass to paint the scene—small details first, gradually filling in more
and more of the background. Then the glass painting would literally be flipped over to be
viewed. All of the works on glass you've seen in this collection were actually painted back-
ward.
