Croatia - 2025 Popular Culture - Miniature Sheet (MNH)
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2025 100th Anniversary Of The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra (MNH)
Pop culture – Street Art: Murals
Street Art is an artistic movement that stems from the graffiti art scene of New York in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century. Artists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf in the USA or Blek Le Rat, Harald Naegeli and Hugo Kaagman in Europe were the forerunners of the explosion of street art that occurred after the year 2000. The media and the public called this movement Street Art, and the streets of London, Paris, New York, Madrid or Berlin received street interventions in the form of sculptures, stickers, painted fronts of the buildings or “decorated” mailboxes. Artists like Banksy, Shepard Fairey or Space Invader are top world street artists today, whereas in Croatia we have to mention the most important ones such as Slaven Kosanović LUNAR, Boris Bare, Marina Mesar OKO, Tea Jurišić, Chez186 & Sarme and Grupa ZID.
Tea Jurišić, Ploče – KITESURFER
The most famous Croatian muralist Tea Jurišić painted a mural called Kitesurfer in Ploče in 2023.
The mural exudes the colors of local nature, and the motifs chosen by the artist connect everything essential to the Neretva delta, the emerald river, tangerines and kitesurfing, a sport that is becoming increasingly popular among young people as well as tourists who come to this part of Croatia. This mural is part of a large production by the Graffiti na gradele collective, of which Tea is a member. The Graffiti na gradele collective is not only a group of people who paint, but they also organize the eponymous festival, art workshops and various art events.
Melinda Šefčić, Sisak – ARIES
Academic painter and street artist Melinda Šefčić painted the facade of a building in Sisak at Ulica Hrvatskog narodnog preporoda 10 as part of the Re-Think festival held in 2018. The artist’s work on the front of the building in Sisak shows the symbol of Aries, which in its color variant reminds us of the constellation from Ptolemy’s catalog, while the created black and white background of flowers symbolizes the universe along with the infinity and beauty of the murals that have been created in Sisak in recent years through the very successful organization of such Street Art festivals. The mural was painted in the artist’s manner, which we all recognize from the countless projects of painting and ennobling public spaces that we had the opportunity to see over many years of her work.
Tomislav Lončarić LONAC, Split – HYPOCRITE
Academic painter and street artist Tomislav Lončarić LONAC painted the facade of the Spaladium Arena in Split in 2021 as part of one of the most important and longest-running graffiti and street art festivals in the Republic of Croatia – the xSTatic Festival. The mural called Hypocrite is one of the largest that LONAC has done, and the motif of the pot (Croat. Lonac) used by the artist permeates all of the artist’s works. The artist took the catchphrase “Polupani lončići” (“Broken pots”, something along the lines of “Olly Olly Oxen Free”) from a childhood game, which obviously left too deep a significance in the artist’s life, as the artist himself says: “In my works on this topic, I try to illustrate through the eyes of children the world of adults, the world of tribes/groups and the culture of calling each other out rather than engaging in self-reflection.”