Valcek za stiri (2004)

Vienna, 1904. In Mietke's Art Salon a new exhibition opens: the "SAVA" Art Club from Ljubljana presents a series of successful works of art, of which the most noticeable are the Impressionist style paintings. Vienna's art criticism scene is enthusiastic and especially praises the perception of the "Stimmung" common to all of the exhibited Impressionist paintings. Grohar, Jama, Sternen, Jakopic. We need to search for their beginnings ten, fifteen years back. Anton Azbe, a painter from the Poljanska dolina opens his own painting school, where he teaches following his own principle called "Kugelprinzip". His pupils include Kandinski, Javlenski and all four of the Slovenian painters. Our painters are not satisfied, though; they feel closer to the French and their Impressionist approach to light and the object. They therefore begin to paint outdoors, mainly in the countryside around Skofja Loka, and at different times of the day. However, their subsequent work is not as brilliant.