During this week's journey around the world, a workshop titled “Landmarks of European Cities” was held with eighth-grade students from the elementary school “Boško Đuričić.”

The workshop was inspired by the landmarks of European cities. We discussed symbols and significant buildings that adorn European cities. During the workshop, students created drawings inspired by squares, buildings, monuments, and fountains.

They had access to postcards of cities for inspiration, and some even brought postcards from cities they had visited. We talked about the artist Emerik Feješ, who also used postcards to create his paintings. The workshop was designed as an art class, a block lesson, and lasted for two hours.

Emerik Feješ (1904-1969) was one of the pioneers of naive art in our region. By profession a button maker and comb maker, he began painting intensively after retiring in 1949, and over the next two decades, he produced an impressive body of work.

The main theme of Feješ's paintings is the architecture of cities, which he transferred from postcards to paper using a matchstick dipped in tempera, and then colored them, creating fantastic and unusual representations of the world's largest metropolises, as well as many Yugoslav cities.