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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.47960/3029-3103.2025.11.191
THE SCULPTURES OF SOFIA NALETILIĆ PENAVUŠA THROUGH THE PRISM OF CROATIAN IDENTITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Toni Barać
; Muzej moderne umjetnosti
Sažetak
Observing different phenomena or styles in the history of art, we also come acro-
ss the phenomenon of naive art, which has only existed for a whole century, and a
precise and general term for what actually naive art has not yet been fully defined.
What we know is that naive art is a phenomenon that appears and is seriously
valued since the second half of the 19th century and practically continues to this
day in parallel with the main artistic currents. This phenomenon arising from
folk art is characterized by a distinct personality, special expressiveness, diversity,
constant individuality, immutability of style and, ultimately, the lack of education
of the author.
When we talk about Croatian naive art, we see its beginnings in the civic painting
of the 19th century, where we actually only have recognition of it by intellectual
circles. Naive art achieved its full development and affirmation in the first half
of the 20th century. Speaking of the same period in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
naive art almost did not exist. Only a few, relatively established artists worked.
IIn the 1980s, new phenomena in naivety were rare not only in Croatia, but also
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, an exception was made by one, at the time
already an elderly lady who, deciding to help her grandson, actually discovered
her sculpting talent and in a short period of time spread her name in the art circ-
les of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also much wider. Thus, through work in the
context of naive art in BiH and Croatia, the artistic creation of Sofija Naletilić, or
popularly known as Baba Penavuša, is analyzed. Working exclusively in wood,
she carved various sculptures with motifs of animals, sacred scenes or people, as
well as historical themes, through which she often gave a kind of political com-
mentary on the social and political situation in socialist Yugoslavia at the time,
which did not look favorably on the emphasis on national belonging and identity,
especially on Croatian identity and people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ključne riječi
identity; naive art; Sofija Naletilić; Baba Penavuša; sculpture.
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351375
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Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2025.
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