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The Medulić Association of Croatian Artists in the Context of Central European Artistic and Political Aspirations: the Myth and the Nation

This paper presents the role of the Medulić Association of Croatian Artists (1908–1919) in Croatian art of the early 20th century and, through comparison with similar Central European art associations (Sztuka in Krakow, Mánes in Prague, the Association of Moravian artists in Bohemia) defines its work in the context of contemporary artistic and political aspirations in Central Europe. These associations contributed to the development of national art and stressed its importance in the formation of a national identity. They also showed progressive tendencies in exhibition and art making, especially in the promotion of modernism against academism. The sculptor Ivan Meštrović, the leading figure of the Medulić Association, gained international fame with his Vidovdan Cycle based on the myth and folk heroic poems, and made a unique contribution to the formation of the national style in European modernist art.

Medulić Association of Croatian Artists, Ivan Meštrović, Vidovdan Cycle, Sztuka Association of Polish Artists, Mánes Association of Fine Artists, Joža Uprka, national identity in art

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