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"Croatian urban naive in Puerto Rico" exhibition by: Juraj Jonke (2000-2021)

"Nature is unpredictable and events are unpredictable. The most important thing is if people do not suffer, do not lose their lives. Everything else, materially, is somehow compensated, especially if there is the will and desire, and you and your compatriots do not lack the zeal of the fight for the better. I want you to do something that does not happen again, not even in the worst of dreams. I would like to dedicate this exhibition to you and your beautiful country... JURAJ JONKE

Juraj Jonke-Biografija - JurajJonke - Nas upozorava na naše zaboravljanje bitnog i kritizira naš strah, koji dovodi do toga da dopuštamo da se naš svijet i djelokrug sve više sužuju, da se utapamo u običnosti ne pokušavajući izići, jer ne možemo izići, jer ne želimo izgubiti sigurnost koju nam pružaju konvencije. Pogađa u samu srž problema, razotkriva na najosjetljivijim mjestima, pokazuje duboko humanu stranu, potaknutu neuništivom težnjom pronalaženja osobne sreće, nudi nam da nas nauči spavati i sanjati. Nudi nam san koji, kako slikama pokazuje, omogučuje da se oslobodimo zidina koje nas sputavaju i vrati nas u prostranstva ukradena djetinjstva. A ako neznamo sami sanjati, on nudi da , kao umjetnik , sanja za nas. U našoj suvremenoj likovnoj umjetnosti aktivno je prisutan Juraj Jonke. Prihvaćen svojim umjetničkim ostvarenjima, slikama ulja na staklu, platnu i crtežima stvara u početku u izrazitoj maniri naive i nadrealizma. Osnova koja ovog slikara prati u svim njegovim djelima je crtež. Crtež je predložak svakog njegovog likovnog ostvarenja. Juraj Jonke izrazito je vezan uz prirodu,. Dječja lutanja prirodom iniciraju kod njega viđeno, doživljeno koje prenosi na crtež, a zatim u sliku na staklu. Diktatom Života živi u Zagrebu, ali ostaje vezan za prirodu. U školskim klupama počeo je Jonke graditi svoj likovni umjetnički život. Po uzoru na naivce, koji su mu shvaćanjem i osjećajem za likovni izraz bili najbliži u početku je prihvatio slikanje na staklu, u toj tehnici ostvario je svoja najbolja i najznačajnija umjetnička djela. O djelu Juraja Jonkea, pisao je prof. Milan Ilić: Juraj Jonke je slikarska osobnost u punom značenju te riječi. Rođen 27. rujna 1954. u Klenovniku ( Hrvatsko Zagorje ), doselio se 1958. u Zagreb, u Frankopansku ulicu, u kojoj je proveo djetinjstvo i mladost. Već 40 godina u ” Plivinom ” pogonu proizvodi lijekove za ljudsko tijelo, a od 1991. u svom stanu proizvodi ” lijekove za ljudsku dušu ”. Slika ! Tijekom tog vremena postao je stalni član Hrvatskog društva naivnih umjetnika, Hrvatskog likovnog društva Zagreb,Hrvatskog društva likovnih umjetnika Zagreb, Društva minijaturista Zaprešić, član drušva minijaturista DC Washington US. Kritičari su ga već odavno svrstali u naivu, zbog izbora motiva, načina rada, pa i početnog izbora tehnike ( ulje na staklu. Kasnije se opredjelio za ulje na platnu ). No držim da bi ovoj stilskoj odrednici trebalo dodati da se radi o ” urbanoj naivi ”, jer postoji još jedna dimenzija Jonkeova slikarstva, koja ga izdvaja iz prosječnosti i doprinosi osebujnosti njegova opusa. To je dimenzija nadrealnog, gotovo Dalijevskog pristupa u spajanju ” nespojivog ”, u veseloj prpošnoj igri i humornosti, kojom poznate stvari pretvara u nov i neočekivan likovni doživljaj. Jonke je izvanredan crtač, ovladao je zakonitostima kompozicije, a njegov kolorit, satkan prvenstveno od osnovnih boja – žute, crvene i plave, upravo ” pršti ” od unutrašnje snage i vedrine. Zanimljiva je činjenica da je slikar koji je odrastao na zagrebačkom asfaltu, ostao tako duboko vezan i za prirodu. Kao da su one 4 godine prvog djetinjstva provedene u Zagorju ostavile neizbrisiv trag i potrebu vječitog vraćanja svojim izvorištima. To je možda najvidljivije u bezbrojnim varijantama cvijeća, onih prepoznatljivih Jonkeovskih žutih ruža, rascvjetalih suncokreta, zanosnih kala, do ekstatičnosti ” eksplozije ” crveno-žutih rapsodija buketa. Jonkeova humorno-nadrealistička strana slikarstva otkriva se u kompozicijama kao što su Ruže, cipele i lak, u Banani koja puši, a naročito u Paradajzu u tangama, rekao bih, u duhovitim ” jonkeovskim ” dosjetkama. Kada slika Zagreb, to nisu kopije turističkih razglednica. Autor smišljeno pronalazi kulturne vrijednosti grada, a onda ih u potpuno neočekivanim kompozicijama ” smješta ” u neki irealni prostor ( u prostor ” urbane naive ” ). Premda u pravilu koristi intenzivne i svijetle boje, vedrina autorovog opusa prisutna je i onda kada koristi izrazito tamni kolorit, kao u slici Ljetna noć, u kojoj ” tamu ” razbija žuti mjesečev krug, koji svojim intenzitetom dominira slikom i pretvara je u fini osjećaj ljetne idile, ali bez lažnog sentimenta. Juraj Jonke ima iza sebe četrdesetak samostalnih i više od 400 skupnih izložbi, a radovi mu se nalaze u mnogim javnim i privatnim zbirkama. Sudjelovao je u nizu međunarodnih natječaja i dobivao nagrade i priznanja, a slike su mu bile izložene i u Americi i Japanu,Finska, Italija, Velika Britanija, Grčka, Turska, Francuska, Njemačka, Belgija, Španjolska, Portugal, Brazil. Argentina, Kolumbija, Rusija, Meksiko, Srbija,Taiwan,Italija,.... Dobitnik je priznanja izložbe povodom 50 godina smrti P. Picassa, ovogodišnji je dobitnik i prve nagrade za zastave na Cest is d’Best-u. U stalnim je postavama muzeja naive Golubovec, galerijama Jastrebarsko, Veliki Tabor, Novska, Bjelovar…..zbirka Bauer, Dvije zbirke crteža povodom 900 godina Zagreba….brojne humanitarne i sportske manifestacije, kao što su maraton Zagreb, Plitvička jezera, Čazma, Zagreb – Vukovar, Liga za borbu protiv raka, i brojne ustanove, kao bolnica Gornja Bistra, Nazorova, Vinko Bek, SUVAG…..koautor monografije 50 godina društva slikara naive Hrvatske. Slikar je to kojeg i kritika i publika rado prihvaća zbog njegove jednostavnosti, iskrenosti i ljepote kojom obasjava našu često turobnu svakidašnjicu. Lijek je to za čovjekovu dušu. Lijek koji samozatajno proizvodi Jonke u svom stanu iznad Črnomerečkog potoka, tamo na nekadašnjoj periferiji Zagreba. ( Milan Ilić, prof. )
Juraj Jonke -Biography - Jurai Jonke - Jonke warns us of our neglect of the essence and criticizes our fears, which leads us to allow our world and our sphere of action to tighten, to drown in the ordinary without trying to go out because we can not go out because we do not want to lose the security they provide Convention. It hits the core of the problem, reveals itself in the most vulnerable places, shows a deep human side, driven by the indomitable pursuit of personal happiness, offers us to teach us sleep and dream. It offers us a dream that, as the pictures show, allows us to free the walls that make us fall and return us to the vastness of stolen childhood. And if we do not know how to dream, he offers, as an artist, dreams of us. Juraj Jonke is actively present in our contemporary art. Accepted by his artistic accomplishments, paintings of oil on glass, canvas and drawings are initially created in exquisite manners of naive and surrealism. The foundation that this painter follows in all of his works is a drawing. The drawing is a template of each of his artistic achievements. Juraj Jonke is extremely related to nature. The child's wandering nature initiates the sighted, perceived, transmitted to the drawing and then into the image of the glass. Dictation Life lives in Zagreb, but remains tied to nature. In the school benches, Jonke began to build his art artistic life. As a model for the naive, who was the closest to the artist's perception and feeling, he initially accepted the painting on the glass, in this technique he made his best and most significant works of art. About Juraj Jonke's work, wrote prof. Milan Ilic: Juraj Jonke is a pictorial personality in the full meaning of this word. Born on September 27, 1954 in Klenovnik (Hrvatsko Zagorje), he moved to Zagreb in 1958, in Frankopanska Street, where he spent childhood and youth. For 40 years, he has been producing drugs for the human body in Pliva, and since 1991 he has been producing "human aids for humans" in his apartment. Picture! During this time he became a permanent member of the Croatian Society of Naive Artists, the Croatian Society of Zagreb and the Miniature Zaprešić Society. Critics have long been the naive, because of the choice of motives, the way of work, and the initial choice of technique (oil on glass. Later he opted for oil on canvas). But I think that this stylistic determinant should be added to being "an urban naive", because there is another dimension of Jonke's painting that distinguishes it from the mean and contributes to the peculiarity of his opus. This is the dimension of the surreal, quasi-Dali's approach to joining the "incompatible", in a jolly courtesy game and humor that transforms the familiar things into a new and unexpected artistic experience. Jonke is an outstanding plotter who has mastered the legacy of the composition, and his color, satin primarily of the basic colors - yellow, red and blue, is just "flickering" from the inner power and the glitter. Interestingly, the painter who grew up on the asphalt of Zagreb remained so deeply tied to nature. As if those 4 years of the first childhood spent in Zagorje left an indelible trace and the need for eternal return to their springs. This may be most evident in countless variants of flowers, those recognizable Jonke's yellow roses, sunflowers, orchids, to the ecstasy of the "blast" of red-yellow bunch ripples. Jonke's humor-surrealistic side of the painting is revealed in compositions such as Roses, Shoes and Light, in the smoking banana, and especially in Paradajza in Tangas, in mysterious "Jonko's" jokes. When painting Zagreb, they are not copies of tourist postcards. The author deliberately finds the cultural values of the city and then places them in "unrealistic" compositions in an irreplaceable space ("urban naive"). Though usually uses intense and bright colors, the scent of the author's opus is also present when it uses an extremely dark color, as in the Summer Night picture, in which "darkness" breaks the yellow moon cycle, which with its intensity dominates the image and turns it into a fine summer feeling idyllic, but without a false feeling. Juraj Jonke has behind forty independent and over 350 group exhibitions, and his works are in many public and private collections. He has participated in a number of international competitions and received awards and accolades, and pictures were exhibited in both America and Japan, Finland, Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Brazil. Argentina, Colombia, Russia, Mexico, Serbia .... The winner of the exhibition is the 50th anniversary of the death of P. Picasso, this year's winner and the first flag award for Cest and d'Best. In the permanent exhibitions of naive Golubovec museums, Jastrebarsko galleries, Veliki Tabor, Novska, Bjelovar ... ..zbirka Bauer, two collection of drawings on the 900th anniversary of Zagreb ... numerous humanitarian and sporting events, such as Marathon Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes, Čazma, Zagreb - Vukovar, the Cancer League, and numerous institutions, such as Gornja Bistra, Nazorova, Vinko Beek, SUVAG ... ... a biographer of bilingual monographs for 50 years of a naive artist of Croatia. He is a painter, whom both critics and audiences are happy to accept because of his simplicity, sincerity and beauty, encompassing our often tense everyday life. It is a medicine for the soul of a man. A medicine that is self-produced by Jonke in his apartment above the Črnomerečki potok, on the former periphery of Zagreb. (Milan Ilic, prof.)
"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Vjetar" (Wind)©2021 - Artist: Jurai Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas / AVAILABLE 250 EUROS ( $298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Brod u boci"©2021 (Bottle Ship) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 20" x 60", Oil on canvas / AVAILABLE 150 EUROS ( $179.21 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Cvijeće"©2021 (Flowers) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Tulipani"©2021 (Tulips) - Artist" Juraj Jonke, 80" X 60", oil on canvas
"SVEVID"©2021 (Omniscient) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60"x 90", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €250 ($298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Smrt Mike Miša" ©2021 (Where is the missing mika mouse?) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"San"©2021 (Dream) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Put u raj"©2021 (Way to Paradise) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 us) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Birthday" (Rodendan)©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Buket"©2021 (Bouquet Kala) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 100" x 70", oil on canvas
"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 165" x 38", oil on canvas
"Cvijeće"©2021 (Flowers 2) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas
"Covid"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Earthquake"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Lužnica Castle"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 80", oil on canvas
"Ljeto"©2021 (Summer) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 40"x60", oil on canvas
"Madam"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 60", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Na nasipu"©2021 (On the Enbankment) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Noć "©2021 (Night) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 50" x 0", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Plavi Tulipani"©2021 (Blue Tulips) - Atist: Juraj Jonke, 40" x 60", oil on canvas
"Plesači"©2021 (Dancers) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 60', oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €250 ($298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Klenovnik"©2021 (Publication1) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 70", oil on canvas
"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas

Juraj Jonke-Biografija - JurajJonke - Nas upozorava na naše zaboravljanje bitnog i kritizira naš strah, koji dovodi do toga da dopuštamo da se naš svijet i djelokrug sve više sužuju, da se utapamo u običnosti ne pokušavajući izići, jer ne možemo izići, jer ne želimo izgubiti sigurnost koju nam pružaju konvencije. Pogađa u samu srž problema, razotkriva na najosjetljivijim mjestima, pokazuje duboko humanu stranu, potaknutu neuništivom težnjom pronalaženja osobne sreće, nudi nam da nas nauči spavati i sanjati. Nudi nam san koji, kako slikama pokazuje, omogučuje da se oslobodimo zidina koje nas sputavaju i vrati nas u prostranstva ukradena djetinjstva. A ako neznamo sami sanjati, on nudi da , kao umjetnik , sanja za nas. U našoj suvremenoj likovnoj umjetnosti aktivno je prisutan Juraj Jonke. Prihvaćen svojim umjetničkim ostvarenjima, slikama ulja na staklu, platnu i crtežima stvara u početku u izrazitoj maniri naive i nadrealizma. Osnova koja ovog slikara prati u svim njegovim djelima je crtež. Crtež je predložak svakog njegovog likovnog ostvarenja. Juraj Jonke izrazito je vezan uz prirodu,. Dječja lutanja prirodom iniciraju kod njega viđeno, doživljeno koje prenosi na crtež, a zatim u sliku na staklu. Diktatom Života živi u Zagrebu, ali ostaje vezan za prirodu. U školskim klupama počeo je Jonke graditi svoj likovni umjetnički život. Po uzoru na naivce, koji su mu shvaćanjem i osjećajem za likovni izraz bili najbliži u početku je prihvatio slikanje na staklu, u toj tehnici ostvario je svoja najbolja i najznačajnija umjetnička djela. O djelu Juraja Jonkea, pisao je prof. Milan Ilić: Juraj Jonke je slikarska osobnost u punom značenju te riječi. Rođen 27. rujna 1954. u Klenovniku ( Hrvatsko Zagorje ), doselio se 1958. u Zagreb, u Frankopansku ulicu, u kojoj je proveo djetinjstvo i mladost. Već 40 godina u ” Plivinom ” pogonu proizvodi lijekove za ljudsko tijelo, a od 1991. u svom stanu proizvodi ” lijekove za ljudsku dušu ”. Slika ! Tijekom tog vremena postao je stalni član Hrvatskog društva naivnih umjetnika, Hrvatskog likovnog društva Zagreb,Hrvatskog društva likovnih umjetnika Zagreb, Društva minijaturista Zaprešić, član drušva minijaturista DC Washington US. Kritičari su ga već odavno svrstali u naivu, zbog izbora motiva, načina rada, pa i početnog izbora tehnike ( ulje na staklu. Kasnije se opredjelio za ulje na platnu ). No držim da bi ovoj stilskoj odrednici trebalo dodati da se radi o ” urbanoj naivi ”, jer postoji još jedna dimenzija Jonkeova slikarstva, koja ga izdvaja iz prosječnosti i doprinosi osebujnosti njegova opusa. To je dimenzija nadrealnog, gotovo Dalijevskog pristupa u spajanju ” nespojivog ”, u veseloj prpošnoj igri i humornosti, kojom poznate stvari pretvara u nov i neočekivan likovni doživljaj. Jonke je izvanredan crtač, ovladao je zakonitostima kompozicije, a njegov kolorit, satkan prvenstveno od osnovnih boja – žute, crvene i plave, upravo ” pršti ” od unutrašnje snage i vedrine. Zanimljiva je činjenica da je slikar koji je odrastao na zagrebačkom asfaltu, ostao tako duboko vezan i za prirodu. Kao da su one 4 godine prvog djetinjstva provedene u Zagorju ostavile neizbrisiv trag i potrebu vječitog vraćanja svojim izvorištima. To je možda najvidljivije u bezbrojnim varijantama cvijeća, onih prepoznatljivih Jonkeovskih žutih ruža, rascvjetalih suncokreta, zanosnih kala, do ekstatičnosti ” eksplozije ” crveno-žutih rapsodija buketa. Jonkeova humorno-nadrealistička strana slikarstva otkriva se u kompozicijama kao što su Ruže, cipele i lak, u Banani koja puši, a naročito u Paradajzu u tangama, rekao bih, u duhovitim ” jonkeovskim ” dosjetkama. Kada slika Zagreb, to nisu kopije turističkih razglednica. Autor smišljeno pronalazi kulturne vrijednosti grada, a onda ih u potpuno neočekivanim kompozicijama ” smješta ” u neki irealni prostor ( u prostor ” urbane naive ” ). Premda u pravilu koristi intenzivne i svijetle boje, vedrina autorovog opusa prisutna je i onda kada koristi izrazito tamni kolorit, kao u slici Ljetna noć, u kojoj ” tamu ” razbija žuti mjesečev krug, koji svojim intenzitetom dominira slikom i pretvara je u fini osjećaj ljetne idile, ali bez lažnog sentimenta. Juraj Jonke ima iza sebe četrdesetak samostalnih i više od 400 skupnih izložbi, a radovi mu se nalaze u mnogim javnim i privatnim zbirkama. Sudjelovao je u nizu međunarodnih natječaja i dobivao nagrade i priznanja, a slike su mu bile izložene i u Americi i Japanu,Finska, Italija, Velika Britanija, Grčka, Turska, Francuska, Njemačka, Belgija, Španjolska, Portugal, Brazil. Argentina, Kolumbija, Rusija, Meksiko, Srbija,Taiwan,Italija,.... Dobitnik je priznanja izložbe povodom 50 godina smrti P. Picassa, ovogodišnji je dobitnik i prve nagrade za zastave na Cest is d’Best-u. U stalnim je postavama muzeja naive Golubovec, galerijama Jastrebarsko, Veliki Tabor, Novska, Bjelovar…..zbirka Bauer, Dvije zbirke crteža povodom 900 godina Zagreba….brojne humanitarne i sportske manifestacije, kao što su maraton Zagreb, Plitvička jezera, Čazma, Zagreb – Vukovar, Liga za borbu protiv raka, i brojne ustanove, kao bolnica Gornja Bistra, Nazorova, Vinko Bek, SUVAG…..koautor monografije 50 godina društva slikara naive Hrvatske. Slikar je to kojeg i kritika i publika rado prihvaća zbog njegove jednostavnosti, iskrenosti i ljepote kojom obasjava našu često turobnu svakidašnjicu. Lijek je to za čovjekovu dušu. Lijek koji samozatajno proizvodi Jonke u svom stanu iznad Črnomerečkog potoka, tamo na nekadašnjoj periferiji Zagreba. ( Milan Ilić, prof. )
Juraj Jonke -Biography - Jurai Jonke - Jonke warns us of our neglect of the essence and criticizes our fears, which leads us to allow our world and our sphere of action to tighten, to drown in the ordinary without trying to go out because we can not go out because we do not want to lose the security they provide Convention. It hits the core of the problem, reveals itself in the most vulnerable places, shows a deep human side, driven by the indomitable pursuit of personal happiness, offers us to teach us sleep and dream. It offers us a dream that, as the pictures show, allows us to free the walls that make us fall and return us to the vastness of stolen childhood. And if we do not know how to dream, he offers, as an artist, dreams of us. Juraj Jonke is actively present in our contemporary art. Accepted by his artistic accomplishments, paintings of oil on glass, canvas and drawings are initially created in exquisite manners of naive and surrealism. The foundation that this painter follows in all of his works is a drawing. The drawing is a template of each of his artistic achievements. Juraj Jonke is extremely related to nature. The child's wandering nature initiates the sighted, perceived, transmitted to the drawing and then into the image of the glass. Dictation Life lives in Zagreb, but remains tied to nature. In the school benches, Jonke began to build his art artistic life. As a model for the naive, who was the closest to the artist's perception and feeling, he initially accepted the painting on the glass, in this technique he made his best and most significant works of art. About Juraj Jonke's work, wrote prof. Milan Ilic: Juraj Jonke is a pictorial personality in the full meaning of this word. Born on September 27, 1954 in Klenovnik (Hrvatsko Zagorje), he moved to Zagreb in 1958, in Frankopanska Street, where he spent childhood and youth. For 40 years, he has been producing drugs for the human body in Pliva, and since 1991 he has been producing "human aids for humans" in his apartment. Picture! During this time he became a permanent member of the Croatian Society of Naive Artists, the Croatian Society of Zagreb and the Miniature Zaprešić Society. Critics have long been the naive, because of the choice of motives, the way of work, and the initial choice of technique (oil on glass. Later he opted for oil on canvas). But I think that this stylistic determinant should be added to being "an urban naive", because there is another dimension of Jonke's painting that distinguishes it from the mean and contributes to the peculiarity of his opus. This is the dimension of the surreal, quasi-Dali's approach to joining the "incompatible", in a jolly courtesy game and humor that transforms the familiar things into a new and unexpected artistic experience. Jonke is an outstanding plotter who has mastered the legacy of the composition, and his color, satin primarily of the basic colors - yellow, red and blue, is just "flickering" from the inner power and the glitter. Interestingly, the painter who grew up on the asphalt of Zagreb remained so deeply tied to nature. As if those 4 years of the first childhood spent in Zagorje left an indelible trace and the need for eternal return to their springs. This may be most evident in countless variants of flowers, those recognizable Jonke's yellow roses, sunflowers, orchids, to the ecstasy of the "blast" of red-yellow bunch ripples. Jonke's humor-surrealistic side of the painting is revealed in compositions such as Roses, Shoes and Light, in the smoking banana, and especially in Paradajza in Tangas, in mysterious "Jonko's" jokes. When painting Zagreb, they are not copies of tourist postcards. The author deliberately finds the cultural values of the city and then places them in "unrealistic" compositions in an irreplaceable space ("urban naive"). Though usually uses intense and bright colors, the scent of the author's opus is also present when it uses an extremely dark color, as in the Summer Night picture, in which "darkness" breaks the yellow moon cycle, which with its intensity dominates the image and turns it into a fine summer feeling idyllic, but without a false feeling. Juraj Jonke has behind forty independent and over 350 group exhibitions, and his works are in many public and private collections. He has participated in a number of international competitions and received awards and accolades, and pictures were exhibited in both America and Japan, Finland, Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Brazil. Argentina, Colombia, Russia, Mexico, Serbia .... The winner of the exhibition is the 50th anniversary of the death of P. Picasso, this year's winner and the first flag award for Cest and d'Best. In the permanent exhibitions of naive Golubovec museums, Jastrebarsko galleries, Veliki Tabor, Novska, Bjelovar ... ..zbirka Bauer, two collection of drawings on the 900th anniversary of Zagreb ... numerous humanitarian and sporting events, such as Marathon Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes, Čazma, Zagreb - Vukovar, the Cancer League, and numerous institutions, such as Gornja Bistra, Nazorova, Vinko Beek, SUVAG ... ... a biographer of bilingual monographs for 50 years of a naive artist of Croatia. He is a painter, whom both critics and audiences are happy to accept because of his simplicity, sincerity and beauty, encompassing our often tense everyday life. It is a medicine for the soul of a man. A medicine that is self-produced by Jonke in his apartment above the Črnomerečki potok, on the former periphery of Zagreb. (Milan Ilic, prof.)

"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Vjetar" (Wind)©2021 - Artist: Jurai Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas / AVAILABLE 250 EUROS ( $298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Brod u boci"©2021 (Bottle Ship) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 20" x 60", Oil on canvas / AVAILABLE 150 EUROS ( $179.21 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Cvijeće"©2021 (Flowers) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Tulipani"©2021 (Tulips) - Artist" Juraj Jonke, 80" X 60", oil on canvas
"SVEVID"©2021 (Omniscient) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60"x 90", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €250 ($298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Smrt Mike Miša" ©2021 (Where is the missing mika mouse?) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"San"©2021 (Dream) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Put u raj"©2021 (Way to Paradise) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas/ AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 us) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Birthday" (Rodendan)©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Buket"©2021 (Bouquet Kala) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 100" x 70", oil on canvas
"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 165" x 38", oil on canvas
"Cvijeće"©2021 (Flowers 2) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 60" x 40", oil on canvas
"Covid"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Earthquake"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Lužnica Castle"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 80", oil on canvas
"Ljeto"©2021 (Summer) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 40"x60", oil on canvas
"Madam"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 60", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Na nasipu"©2021 (On the Enbankment) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 70" x 50", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Noć "©2021 (Night) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 50" x 0", oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €200 ($238.46 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Plavi Tulipani"©2021 (Blue Tulips) - Atist: Juraj Jonke, 40" x 60", oil on canvas
"Plesači"©2021 (Dancers) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 60', oil on canvas / AVAILABLE €250 ($298.17 US) / jonke4@yahoo.co.uk
"Klenovnik"©2021 (Publication1) - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 80" x 70", oil on canvas
"Zagreb"©2021 - Artist: Juraj Jonke, 90" x 60", Oil on canvas