The presentation held at a scientific symposium focused on the artistic oeuvre of painter Slavko Pengov, which has thus far not received sufficient scholarly attention. His work was strongly influenced by the onset of the 2nd World War, which marked an important shift from focusing almost exclusively on church commissions to becoming the leading painter of state-commissioned frescoes in the post-WW2 period. His state-commissioned paintings belong to the best examples in a relatively small group of Slovenian artworks conforming to the requirements of socialist realism, generally considered to be the style representing a total break with Slovenian artistic tradition. Based on an iconographical and stylistic comparison of Pengov's monumental frescoes from the pre- and post-WW2 period the paper presented the differences as well as stressed the many similarities in his profane and sacred works, bringing attention to the ways in which the transition from Christian art to socialist realism is expressed in his oeuvre.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 39242029Paper dealt with the figural aspects of the monuments of the WWI which is completely embedded in the sphere of death and religion. As a rule they include a figure of a broken soldier. Sometimes with a hand on his chest, as a sign of his faith. In some other cases a mourning mother of a soldier is portrayed. Such compositions resemble the motif of Pieta, Mary's mourning of dead Jesus. Generally the common and repeating elements of the WWI monuments are Christian symbols, Christ and angels.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 39010093In this well received lecture in the international conference the author provided an in-depth analysis of the secular motives in all six monasteries of the reformed orders in Slovenia. The lecture dealth with the architectural and free-standing sculpture, painting and illuminated manuscripts from the founding of monasteries and up to 1500. The artworks were discussed in the context of the contemporary rules of monastic orders and artistic development in the monastic and other art. In most cases the secular elements can be associated with secular founders and donors, who wished to built under their name the highly recognised monastery, thus contributing to their own reputation. By founding and supporting monasteries they increased their social-political influence and enabled themselves spiritual peace.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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