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Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, Serbia
bojana.popovic@mpu.rs
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INTERIORS BY DUAN JANKOVI?
Journal 19/2023 (Museum of Applied Art), pages 9-19
Article category: original scientific paper
UDC:
73/76.071.1 ???????? ?.
747:725/728
Abstract (original language):
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Summary:
Dealing with interior and furniture design, as well as other areas of creativity, Duan Jankovi? (18941950) consistently expressed his modernist sensibility. The styles of the past are not the origin of his work, except for the effort to modernize Yugoslav folk ornamentation, which was in accordance with the taste of the era. His interiors from the twenties are the epitome of Art Deco. Richly painted walls and ceilings, with an abundance of floral and geometric ornamentation, they are characteristic of the authors entire work during the first decade of his creativity. Figural compositions, and in the spirit of de-radicalized Cubism, he rarely represented (Kasina, 1923; Moulin rouge, 1925). The painting of wall surfaces will remain relevant even during the thirties, when Jankovi? left the previous patterns. The surviving sketches for the villa in Saint- Cloud (1934) show that he devised a discrete geometric ornament of a series of short parallel lines by combining, which achieved dynamism and variety. The furniture designed by Jankovi?, from the very beginning in 1924, is extremely functional, reduced in form and devoid of ornamentation, while decorativeness is achieved by a covering with veneers of an interesting structure and contrasting color. With rare exceptions (the project for Jovan Cviji?s house, 1925), he will create in this manner in the 1930s, when furniture design will occupy a more important place in his work. Like his contemporaries inclined to modernization trends, Jankovi? thought about the rationalization of space and its functional furnishing, that is, about multi-purpose, easily portable and foldable furniture, in the production of which new materials and technologies have a corresponding importance. It is the furniture that shows how consistent Jankovi? remained with his youthful conviction that the goal of applied art is the harmony of the purpose of the object with the material from which it is made, as well as striving for harmony of the whole and details, whereby decorative elements are unnecessary.
Translated by Tatjana Nii?
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