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Bibliografija Arhiv

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NEW POSSIBILITIES - On the II Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphics

While a part of painterly production—especially that where authors insist on the “easel painting”—finds itself in a critical position, not all possibilities of graphics have been exploited. Namely, oil on canvas of a chamber format is gradually losing its roots in the soil on which it lives. Demand is falling, and this decline is very symptomatic and reflects itself, on average, even in the stylistic and methodical difficulties of painters, which difficulties give birth to the weaknesses of the work.