Folklore optimism

One of the famous "masters of naive art" is an artist of Croatian origin, the founder of the Khlebinsk school of painting is Ivan Genalich.
The art of "naive artists", people who are engaged in painting without special training is the main fundamental phenomenon of artistic culture of the 20th century. The peculiarity of primitive Balkans lies in the fact that an entity predominantly peasant, which was created by the villagers in whose consciousness is strong interwoven crafts peasant culture and urban grassroots. Paintings, peasants who write in his spare time, something reminiscent of the art of wandering artists who were selling homemade icons on glass.
Works, as a rule created by oil on glass are filled with folklore optimism. It was believed that the light passing through the glass creates a special filling with the warmth and color of the picture. Ivan Generalić artist devoted to the crafts people's creates distinct contours, flatness carpet motifs, which are equal and of equal. The works are filled with the people's vision of the world, naivety and wisdom and a bold decision of the artistic techniques of the artist. Generalich is considered the patriarch of the Croatian school of painting and created a galaxy of masters of the Khrebinsk school. Now the artist's works are kept in many museums in the world and in the museums of Zagreb. One of the most famous paintings "Under the Pear Tree" (1943) is filled with a high composition horizon and a restrained color. A picture of "Hlebinskaya Mona Lisa" (1970), where the artist is trying to show the difference between stereotypes, in large part mocking, depicting a chicken.