Christmas. Contemporary religious paintings

    Yugoslavia  1995.12.26

    In issue: Stamp(s): 4   

    Printing: offset

    Issued in: sheets of 25 (5*5) stamps

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 2748   Yvert: 2606   Scott: 2314  

    Perforation type: 13 ¼x13 ½

    Subject:

    2.2 dinars. Reproduction of "Traditional Christmas" by Janko Brašić*
    In two fragments can see the traditional mortar and stone hand mill (under doubt)

    Additional:

    *Janko Brašić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Брашић) (1906-1994) was a Serbian painter considered to be one of the foremost contributors to the naive art genre. He has a world-wide reputation.

    Janko Brašić was born in the village of Oparić, in Serbia, where he lived and worked all his life. He started painting when he was a young man of 24 (1933).

    In a review of his work, an art critic wrote: The development of Serbian naive art officially starts with the work of Janko Brašić. His earliest works (portraits) date from 1933. Rustic elementary realism is his way of expressing primordial relations with his surroundings. Lacking professional routine his painting seem bitter and sounding. Scenes are mainly presented in a rural landscape; they possess bright colorization, without explicitly expressed focus. However, the most expressive are his psychological portraits. With almost six decades of fruitful work Janko Brašić will remain the symbol of naive art in Serbia and Oparić will be widely famous as his homeland....

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    This information has been taken from Wikipedia