Martin Jonas (Monograph about naiv painter)

Monograph about the Slovak naiv painter Martin Jonas who is living in the village Kovacica in Vojvodina (in Serbia).

There are more than 200 color photographs of Martin Jonas paintings and more than 20 reproductions of his black and white drawings.

The text is in Slovak, Serbian, French, English and German languages.

"Who is Martin Jonas? To those who took at least a fleeting glimpse into even the briefest encyclopaedia of naiv art, this name should be well known. The name belongs to a man whose wealth of talent and aesthetic imagination ranks him among the most amazing personalities in the world of current naive art. He contributed significantly to the forming of the notable Kovacica naivist group," writes about Martin Jonas one of the authors Ivan Melichercik.

"Hands, huge palms and fist with twisted fingers, as if growing out from the Panonian sunburn acacia trunk in endless variations – you will probably notice this first as one of the dynamic characteristics in Jonas paintings. Moreover, there often appear suprisingly small faces, with cunning smiles, and hiding some mystic thought interating the essence of the farmer `s life wisdom and moral," writes about Jonas paintings his close friend, well known Slovak poet in Vojvodina Palo Bohus.