This fall I plan to travel to Split. I also plan to take in some Croatian Art. In particular some "naïve" art---childlike, paintings filled with almost cartoon-like imagery with colour book worlds and lots of caricature, fantasy, utopian-looking settings, and almost without aggression and agenda.
Does this type of "art movement" appeal? This last painting, above, certainly appeals to me. It pushes you to be cynical though? Does it not look like just the type of "unreal" ideal that used to be sold to the people of the Eastern Bloc? Except, when you travel to the countryside in Lithuania, Czeck Republic and Croatia, for example, you can feel very much like you are in one of these paintings.
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