Umetniska šola Slovenske kulturne akcije (original) (raw)

Dve Domovini-two Homelands, 2003

Abstract

The Art school of the Slovenska kulturna akcija, which was active between 1995 and 1960 in Buenos Aires presents one of the three attempts to establish art education among Slovene emigrants all over the world. Differently from the other two, which were projects if individual artists, the mentioned is a collective emigrant project based on the model of European art colleges. The founders of the school, particularly the SKA leadership, wished to preserve the continuity of Slovene art tradition and indirectly influence through art on cultural and especially ethnic perception of Slovene emigrants. The outlines of activity of the school and of the position of art within the frame of the SKA are given on the basis of publications in the SKA gazette - GLAS Slovenske kulturne akcije, individual narrations of students, notes by Marijan Marolt, and other sources. Acknowledged artists were giving lessons at the SKA art school: the painters Bara Remec and Milan Volovsek, sculptor France Ahcin, ...

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