Marijan Jevšovar was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group

Gorgona Group

The Gorgona Group , was a Croatian avant-garde art group which consisted of artists and art historians: Dimitrije Bašičević-Mangelos, Miljenko Horvat, Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa, operated along the lines of anti-art in...

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Jevšovar's explorations of the medium of painting led him to create an even further reduced version of informal art, something which may be referred to as anti-paintings. He was one of the founding members of the Gorgona group whose active members from 1959 to 1966 were Miljenko Horvat, Ivan Kožarić, Julije Knifer

Julije Knifer

Julije Knifer was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....

, Dimitrije Bašičević

Dimitrije Basicevic

Dimitrije Bašičević was an artist, critic and curator, working under the pseudonym Mangelos. He made handmade books, sculptures and paintings....

 (who works under the pseudonym, Mangelos), Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder and Josip Vaništa. During the 1960s, along with his interest in grey and white surfaces, he also made drawings such as The Perfect Shape and An All-over Circle both of which reflect his philosophy of painting concerning the negation of traditional painterly values. These traditional values are instead replaced with an emphasis on the process of painting as the aspect of art more important than the final product. At the beginning of the 1970s he changed his art practice by introducing colours. He has also designed books and posters. He had solo shows in Opatija

Opatija

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 (1959), Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (1960), Zagreb (1961, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1993), Dijon

Dijon

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 (1989), Varaždin

Varaždin

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 (1990) and Umag

Umag

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(1993). He received the City of Zagreb Award for Artists (1995).

Publications on Marijan Jevšovar

• Matičević, Davor Marijan Jevšovar – Drawings (Zagreb, 1993)
• Čanić, Nardi Marijan Jevšovar ( Zagreb, 1996).