Hlebine Art School: First, Second & Third Generation

First generation (Ivan Generalic, Franjo Mraz and Mirko Virius) paints what they see , the everyday rural life, local reality local, primitive surroundings, people and customs.

Documenting time without idealizing. Mirko Virius criticizes the miserable position of peasants fighting for justice.

Recurrences of folk collective story and imagination. The symbolic use of color - an aggressive, intense color.

Mijo Kovačic presents a typical farm work in warm colors. Early work with the note of later meticulously detailed approach to the painting elements.

Master of portrait. Besides capturing physiognomy he seeks the essence of the character of the person. He is interested in expressive, not conventionally beauty.

Stylized representation of a typical daily life of archaic patriarchal village

In 1970's Josip Generalic puts pop stars or ancient emperors in landscape of Podravina region. A compound of tradition and modernity. Demythologisation of representation.

The most common image typified portraits of gypsies or servant. Expressive figuration, powerful distortion. By expressing "antibeautiness" goes beyond frames of Hlebine School.

Master of contemporary figurative drawing. He lived in Zagreb and pictured from memory. Landscapes reflect lyricism, idyllic, they are soul psychograms. Tenderness, kindness, harmony, peace. Everything is generalized and supra-individual.

Franjo Vujcec leads grotesque to the maximum. Burlesque, deformation, aggressive and expressive colors.