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The Art Gallery was founded in Cetinje in 1950. As the oldest and most respectable institution, its task is: to study the development of fine arts; to collect, keep and exhibit pieces of artistic value; and, by an adequate selection of works, to offer the most comprehensive overview of the most significant achievements in fine arts. In the beginning it operated within the State Library, and then independently from 1952 to 1963, when it was integrated with the other Cetinje museums into an institution called the General Museum of Montenegro (Museums Cetinje, 1965), renamed the National Museum of Montenegro (1992). During the seventies, the Art Gallery grew into the Art Museum of Montenegro, currently keeping the collection of around 2,800 exhibits, including some capital works of contemporary Yugoslav and Montenegrin fine arts. The diversity and wealth of the collection led to its classification into the following sub-collections: the Collection of Reproductions of Frescoes, the Collection of Icons, the Collection of Montenegrin Fine Arts, the Collection of Yugoslav Fine Arts, the Collection of Foreign Artists, the Collection of Milica Sarić Vukmanović and Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo, the Collection of Caricatures, the Collection of Legacies, and the collections within the gallery “The Yugoslav Artists to Njegoš”: fine art, applied art, and naďve art. In accordance with the exhibition space available to the Art Museum of Montenegro, the permanent exhibition of the National gallery in Vladin Dom includes the Collections of Montenegrin and Yugoslav Art, the Collection of Icons and the Collection of Milica and Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo.

                 

The plan of the exhibition

.1                      1. Yugoslav collection

                         2. Collection of Milica and Svetozar Vukmanović 

                         3. Icons

                         4. Blue chapel and Filermosa icon

                         5. Montenegrin collection

                         6. Works of Milo Milunović

                         7. Works of Petar Lubarda

                         8. Works of Branko Filipović - Filo

                         9. Instalations of Miodrag Dado Đurić

 

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The Yugoslav Collection encompasses the works created in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Its presentation points to the wealth and diversity of artistic achievements of this specific area where the centuries-old intertwining of the East and the West influenced the entire spiritual and cultural environment. Following the chronological principles, stylistic expressions and movements, as well as the poetic and aesthetic characteristics of certain artists, the presented works enable the visitor to follow the development and the basic stylistic features of Yugoslav fine art in the period from the end of the nineteenth to the seventies of the twentieth century.

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Yugoslav collection

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The Collection of Milica and Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo was born as a product of Mrs Milica Sarić Vukmanović’s and Mr Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo's enthusiasm and love for fine arts. They gave their collection of paintings, graphics, sculptures and works of applied art, which they had built up for years, as a present to Cetinje in 1964. They enriched it in time so that today it comprises 220 exhibits, which represent a highly valuable whole within the collection of the Art Museum of Montenegro. A part of the permanent exhibition of the National Gallery, this collection adds to the essential values of the anthological overview of Yugoslav and Montenegrin fine art. Namely, the cross-section of Yugoslav painting would be incomplete if it was not for the highly valuable artistic pieces contained by this collection which represent the achievements of key artists from the major painting movements of the twentieth century.

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Collection of Milica i Svetozar Vukmanović

 

The Collection of Icons shows stylistic and iconographic features derived primarily from the plastic aesthetic characteristics of the area where they were created. According to their origin they can be divided into three wholes: icons of Russian origin created in the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, which reached the territory of Montenegro through the mass import from Russia to the countries populated by the Christian Orthodox; Italo-Cretan icons from the end of the seventeenth century and from the eighteenth century that arrived at the Montenegrin coast thanks to the ramified trade and cultural links with the West, particularly Italy; icons by domestic artists painted in the period from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The works standing out among these are the icons of the school of icon-writing of the Dimitrijević-Rafailović family from Boka Kotorska. The same section displays the paintings by foreign authors with religious themes: the painting on wood The Execution of Saint Genoveva from the seventeenth century, which belongs to the northern European art, and the work by the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Pittoni, 

       

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The icons

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The Holy Family. The painting The Holy Family by our greatest baroque painter Tripo Kokolja (Boka Kotorska) is also on display in this part of the Gallery. 

 

 

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