(Oplotnica, 17.1.1924 - 2006)
Greta Pečnik was one of the few painters who are considered representatives of naive art in Slovenia. She was interested in creating from a young age, but due to severe financial hardship, she was completely prevented from entering the academy. She only attended primary school, and then had to start working.
Her family was unable to support her in further education, so she taught herself to paint. Accordingly, some technical ineptitude can be seen in her works. These do not have a negative effect at all, but represent a characteristic expression for her, with the help of which she achieved individuality in the final image. In her choice of motifs and style, Greta Pečnik was completely different from other Slovenian self-taught artists.
Her images were created separately from Žiri, which represented the center of our naive artists. In her painting, she moved away from the standard depictions of the rural environment with traditional houses and poor people. She drew inspiration for them from her own spirit and her immediate surroundings, which is why sea motifs often appear in her depictions. She used an exceptionally rich and strong color scheme, with which she breathed personal feelings towards the chosen motif into the canvas. She most often used vibrant red and blue tones, with which she completely filled the canvas. Greta's artworks do not take into account the true laws of perspective. She followed her own feeling, with which she created new compositional solutions. In addition to painting, she also tried her hand at sculpture. She presented her artworks on her home soil several times, and she also established herself abroad.
Since 1968, she has organized several solo exhibitions in Slovenia, and she has also participated in the most important exhibition of naive artists in Europe and overseas. Her works are kept in some of the most important European museums. Although she began her professional work relatively late, she has received several awards for her work, which testify to Greta's artistic talent. One of the more important ones was awarded to her in 1973 in Lugano.
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Greta Pečnik je bila ena izmed redkih slikark, ki jih na Slovenskem uvrščamo med predstavnike naivne umetnosti. Ustvarjanje jo je zanimalo že od mladih let, vendar ji je bil vstop na akademijo, zaradi hude finančne stiske, povsem onemogočen. Obiskovala je le osnovno šolo, nato pa je morala pričeti z delom.
Družina je nikakor ni uspela podpreti pri nadaljnjem izobraževanju, zato se je slikanja priučila kar sama. Skladno s tem je v njenih delih mogoče opaziti nekaj tehničnih nespretnosti. Te nikakor ne delujejo negativno ampak predstavljajo zanjo značilen izraz, s pomočjo katerih je v končni podobi dosegla individualnost. V izbiri motivov in slogu je bila Greta Pečnik povsem drugačna od drugih slovenskih samoukov. Njene podobe so nastale ločeno od Žiri, ki so predstavljale center naših naivnih umetnikov.
Pri slikanju se je odmaknila od standardnih prikazov ruralnega okolja s tradicionalnimi hišami in z revnim prebivalstvom. Navdih zanje je črpala iz lastnega duha in bližnje okolice, zato se v njenih upodobitvah večkrat pojavljajo tudi morski motivi. Uporabljala je izjemno bogat in močan kolorit, s katerim je v platno vdahnila osebno občutenje do izbranega motiva. Največkrat je uporabila živahne rdeče in modre tone, s katerimi je v celoti zapolnila slikarsko platno. Likovna dela Grete ne upoštevajo pravih zakonitosti perspektive. Sledila je lastnemu občutku, s katerim je ustvarila nove kompozicijske rešitve. Poleg slikarstva se je preizkusila še v kiparstvu. S svojimi umetninami se je večkrat predstavila na domačih tleh, prav tako pa se je uveljavila v tujini.
Od 1968 je pripravila kar nekaj samostojnih razstav v Sloveniji, sodelovala pa je tudi na najpomembnejši razstavi naivnih umetnikov v Evropi in v čezoceanskem prostoru. Njena dela hranijo v nekaterih pomembnejših evropskih muzejih. Čeprav je s poklicnim ustvarjanjem začela relativno pozno, je za svoje delo prejela kar nekaj nagrad, ki pričajo o Gretinem slikarskem talentu. Eno pomembnejših so ji podelili leta 1973 v Luganu.
The text was prepared for the Porta Alpina gallery by Pia Župevec, B.Sc. art history
Besedilo je za galerijo Porta Alpina pripravila Pia Župevec, dipl. um. zgod.
SOURCES/VIRI:
Janez GARTNAR, Pečnik Greta (1924-2006), Galerija likovnih samorastnikov Trebnje, Trebnje 2007, https://marko-kapus.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/21-Galerija-likovnih-samorastnikov-Trebnje-2007.pdf (24.1.2025).
Nelida SILIČ-NEMEC, s. v. Pečnik Greta (1924-2006), Slovenska biografija, 2013, https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi940710/ (2.1.2025).
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