INITIAL PRESENTATIONS OF CROATIAN ARTISTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC SCENE IN THE 1896 — 1903P ERIOD

Numerous citaćions from th e c r i t icisms published abroad are used to illustrate the great success of Bukovac\u27sa>.tistic colony on i n t ernatio>ral iisual ar t n rani festatio»s: Ml>leni>rm Exhibitio>r i» Br ldapest, 1896; International Exhibition in Copenhagen, 1897; Ar>stro Hrr»garian Exlribitio» i» Petevsblrrg, 1899; World Exhibition in Par is, 1900; Exhibition of Cr oatian Ar t ist s i n Pr ag>re, 1903; as i»eIl as 1>lgh pe>sona! recog>trtrons thQt Vlaho BukovQC u\u27Qs awarded on Venetian Biennales held in 1897, 1901 and 190.3, 1 >rst Secession Exhibition i n Vienna, 1898, and Bukovac\u27s one-man exhibition i n Vienna, 1903. Besides the>r artistic i alue, these presentalions >»eant a cer tain pol i t ical recognilion of the Croals hai ing steadily pointed b> separate exhibitions, to thei r auto>romy ui thi n the Habsburg Monarchy and sinrultaneorrsly ini>olving the situation in Croatia, u\u27here a conser»ali»e campaign against the Qr tists eientually made Bukovac to leave the country and hi s ar t istic colony to disperse