Figure 1.--Paja Jovanovic (1859-1957) painted a historical recreation of a triumphal medieval scene, "Marriage of Tzar Dulan" in 1906. There are page boys and two other children wearing tunics and capes. The page boy is in light green. |
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We have very little information on Serbian art. Serbia was a medieval Christian kingdom. We have no information about medieval Serbian art at this time. The Serbs were conquuered by the Ottomans after the battle of Kosovo Polje (1389). We know nothing about Serbia's art history during the Ottoman era. Serbia reemerged as an independent kingdom in the 19th century and we begin to see Serbian paintings at this time.. We have found some paintings by Serbian artiss, but we do not yet know much about them.
Another Serbian painter is Jovan Bijelic (1886-1963). We know nothing about him at this time. A Yugoslav movie was made about him with his name as a title (1958). We note one of his paintings etitled 'Petite Dubravka' which we do not yet understand. This image has us puzzled. It is autumn because the child is wearing a scarf and jersey. The child wears a hat. The child's hair appears to be cut short. The facial appearance suggest a boy. The child looks to be aged about 9 or 10.
It also seems that a dress is being worn . the white ankle socks and black strap shoes suggest the subject is a girl. I am not sure if Dubravka is the name of a village or the child. If it is a name we are unsure if is a boy's or girl's name. We are not sure if it pictures a boy or girl. history.
We note a painting of the Serbian royal family by Jovan Isajlovi (1803-85). Prince Milan is on his death bed. The entire royal family is there. Women on the right and men and boys on the left. The boy is wearing a dark suit. His father is the brother of the dead prince. Behind him is the father.
We know nothing about the artist at this time. Serbia at the time was just emrging from Ottoman rule. Serbs at the time did not have art schools anbd were just beginning to restablish commercial and intelectual ties with Christian Europe. Thus the painting is not done by a master artist and ha the look of a naive painting.
Paja Jovanovic (1859-1957) painted a historical recreation of a triumphal medieval scene, "Marriage of Tzar Dulan" in 1906 (figure 1). There are page boys and two other children wearing tunics and capes. The page boy is in light green. The Tzar is well beloved still. Under his kingship Serbia was a much bigger country than it is now. It extended to the Turkish border and present day Bulgaria was then in Serbia.
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