Art Deco and Art in Croatia between the Two Wars

A representative exhibition, "Art Deco and Art in Croatia between the Two Wars", opened at the Museum of Arts and Crafts. After a large exhibition on secession in Croatia, this is yet another cultural project with which the museum is exploring and promoting the development of national culture.

The exhibition features as many as 750 works by eminent Croatian artists who were active during the period. Apart from paintings, sculptures and items of applied arts, the exhibition also features works by authors who left a mark on the development of Croatian architecture and industrial design, as well as visual arts, music and dance. The term art deco is derived from the title of the world expo held in Paris in 1925 (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) and it stands for new, decorative art. Among fifteen thousand exhibitors at that expo, the Grand Prix was won by the great Croatian sculptor and architect, Ivan Meštrović, and painter Ljubo Babić. Meštrović won the award for the Račić family mausoleum, which he designed in 1921 in Cavtat, while Ljubo Babić won his for set-design work, which he successfully did along with painting.

Djurdja Bartlett is co-curator for the event in the fashion and lifestyle section.