Franjo Mraz
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Franjo Mraz was a notable Croatian artist
. Together with Ivan Generalić
and Mirko Virius
, he is considered a founder of Croatian naive art
. His most famous paintings are "Oranje" ("Ploughing") and "Zima" ("Winter").
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. Together with Ivan Generalić
Ivan Generalic
Ivan Generalić was a Croatian naïve art painter.Generalić was born in Hlebine near Koprivnica. In elementary school, painting lessons were his greatest joy and as a child he used to earn money...
and Mirko Virius
Mirko Virius
Mirko Virius was a Croatian naive painter. He was one of the three most prominent members of the first generation of the Hlebine School....
, he is considered a founder of Croatian naive art
Naïve art
Naïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naïve artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true...
. His most famous paintings are "Oranje" ("Ploughing") and "Zima" ("Winter").