In June 2003 as a part of Marko’s fair, a cravat, in the 19th century fashion, was placed on the monument of ban (viceroy) Josip Jelačić in the city of Zagreb. The installation was prof. Marijan Bušić’s idea and Marta Crnobrnja, an academic painter, carried out the project. A picture wall of a Croatian soldier from the Thirty Years …
Challenge of Cravat – Cravat as Croatian contribution to global culture
The first visual arts exhibition about the cravat as a specific communication media and a part of Croatian an world cultural heritage was organised in Pula by the Academia Cravatica at the same time the installation “A cravat around the Arena” was performed. Twenty, mostly Istrian authors participated in the exhibition. In 2004 the exhibition under the name “Challenge of …
Exhibition “The Knot in the Rock – The Cravats of Imota”
19.09.2007 In the Ethnographical Museum in Zagreb, an exhibition of photographs has been opened, entitled “The Knot in the Rock – the Cravats of Imota” organized by the Academia Cravatica. The exhibition consists of about 220 old photographs taken in the period from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. The photographs, as unique …
Cravat around Croatia
Academia Cravatica has performed another spectacular project in the summer of 2006 . The basic idea of the project is to connect all Croatian regions with a red thread (ribbon), which symbolises connecting Croatian cultural and geographical diversities into a whole, along the state borders and organise various activities in cities and interesting tourist locations. DESCRIPTION OF THE ART INSTALLATION …
The tie in the rye
Cultivating land is the foundation of human civilization in general. Cultivating fields (agera) leads to agriculture, and in a figurative sense every area of man’s work is a field. So also in art, we talk about the field of a picture, which in land art has becomes the literal field on a background of land. If we turn our …
Picture-book – Veli Jože’s cravat or The fairy wedding in the arena of Pula
Daniel Načinović wrote the text for the picture-book and academic painter Ivan Gregov illustrated it. The picture-book was published in 2003 as a tribute to 2000 years of the Arena in Pula. Inspired by the art installation “A tie around the Arena”, the picture-book was published in three editions: Croatian, English and Italian.
Picture-book – The story of the cravat
It was published in 2000 in three editions: Croatian, English and Japanese. The author of the text is Božidar Prosenjak and the illustrator is Radovan Domagoj Devlić. The book had received the Grigor Vitez literary award. On 44 pages and in a modern way using both pictures and words, the book tells the story about the cravat through the …
Tie one for Croats’ sake
Cravat is the only Croatian symbol known and recognized worldwide. At the same time, cravat stands as symbol of Europe and several fundamental human values, as well. Therefore, Academia Cravatica declares October 18th to be set as the day of Croatian and world Cravat Day. Namely, in year 2003 the spectacular installation Cravat Around Arena was performed in Pula. This …
Ivan Gundulic wore a cravat before Louis XIV
Although it has always been thought that the French King Louis XIV was the first to wear something resembling a cravat, or a scarf as its predecessor, on a portrait dating from the end of the 17th century, it is now clear that the oldest portrait of someone wearing a cravat was painted in a Croatian city. This was of …
Museum of cravat in Zagreb
Academia Cravatica initiated another brand new initiative – founding Museum of Cravat, in Zagreb naturally, the world´s metropolis of cravat. Expert Council of the Museum is established with its members as following: Tomislav Šola (Ph.D.), professor of Study of Museology at Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Margarita Sveštarov Šimat, museum counsellor at Cabinet of Graphics at the Croatian Academy of …