popularly referred panel oil painting serbian painted shows everyday interactions inhabitants multi ethnic multi religious town region austria-hungary native painting commissioned city council following year centre panel measures centimetres panels measure centimetres left panel market scene centre panel shows peasants harvesting row right image farmer labour background originally intended displayed alongside paintings commissioned patriarch dissatisfaction insistence altered liking resulted sent able necessary revisions time met acclaim exhibition awarded gold medal work critics praising mastery painting permanent exhibition background successful 20th century serbian painters native town hungarian administered region austria-hungary mixed population serbs hungarians germans serbs descended 14th century migrants fleeing ottoman advance following june diversity ensured town reputation prosperity cultural enlightenment artistic abilities noticed early age father professional photographer early development informed portraits religious paintings artists early copies artworks available brought instant recognition steered career arts artist observed people countryside customs compiled sketches natural man structures town student commissioned draw series preparatory sketches bell tower hometown main church artistic skills vienna studying early career painted works high demand time paintings based experiences balkans middle_east north_africa assured fame art west late 1880s turned history painting depicting scenes history people seen reputation meant best known types works decade professional artist painting commissioning composition early 1890s hungarian officials announced plans millennium exhibition held intended mark anniversary hungarian conquest hungary national territorial legitimacy hungarian people natural historical right areas inhabited exhibition held city park exhibits divided distinct areas visual art displaying cultural industrial achievements non hungarians living hungarian administered territories austria-hungary built including serbs city council hired paint composition town displayed compositions created exhibition commissioned year depicts composition representing exhibition originally meant depict folk hero fighting turks idea took liking council members soon changed minds asked paint composition showing everyday lives town inhabitants course creation visited hometown number occasions purpose people structures proved particularly difficult undertaking firm grasp panel mural painting proved great importance earlier recipient church commissions called multi painting extent contemporaries scene needed connect seamlessly met additional challenge painting number figures engaged actions requiring precise definition artist addressed carefully drawing figure landscape panels ensure unity ensure natural light painted studio air took artist months complete work description serbian latin serbian originally publicized serbian latin serbian panel oil painting created centre panel measures centimetres panels measure centimetres left panel shows villagers city serbs hungarians germans meeting main square sell purchase items simply scene set mid morning occurs backdrop row shiny white washed buildings town main church visible background figures dressed costumes traditionally worn making easier viewer ethnicity interact ease art historian writes general good scene centre panel depicts group peasants countryside gathering row panel right shows villagers harvesting wheat figures seen bending background hand foreground artist signature found right hand corner centre panel analysis comes large scale contemporary genre painting eye drawing parallels earlier works says provide responses commentaries notes far simple everyday life describing type history painting argues intended mere documentary piece decision use format highly unusual notes parallels 14th century paintings specifically good bad government brother birth virgin work shares secular subject matter homage city format unlike medieval counterparts freedom artistic expression painting bound wealthy patrons writes merely message applying time asserting like 14th century owed peace prosperity maintenance traditional values merits good governance interpretation suggests commending austro hungarians bringing stability hometown surroundings giving prominence tall church left panel writes suggests artist asserting importance faith securing harmony prosperity qualities exemplified states reminiscent values virtues interwoven traditional religious paintings sacred scenes presented combination guise ordinary humans experiences confined artist hometown implications wider region provides assurance peace harmony possible exist contemporary balkan world town writes evidenced artist decision focus members particular ethnic group depicts town inhabitants ease depiction intended counter claims animosity locals despite past marred inter ethnic inter religious violence describes painting optimistic work draws parallels subsequent historical compositions particularly argues intended remind rich past assure bright future reception legacy intended displayed alongside ended painting sent patriarch dissatisfied viewing demanded artist changes painting conform church view migration duly took painting studio began altering patriarch liking changes relatively quickly rendered time exhibition sent display exhibited art pavilion received praise critics artistic committee judged exhibition best work awarded gold medal efforts particular judges noted mastery friends reviewer wrote real master precise painting time air showed skill paintings set example younger generations issued yugoslavia 1920s described showing solidarity nations example diversity great artists narrow minded continued paintings nice example popularity shows past diversity declined significantly world war subsequent expulsion region ethnic german population led observer remark irony celebrating diversity descendants germans depicted painting unlikely living today town sizable population hungarians according serbian census gifted artist remains display inventory number
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