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YUGOSLAVIA

HALL

This hall represents the largest and most re-
presentative room in the Palace and it was en-
tirely made according to the design of Mihailo
Mika Janković. During the formal receptions
it accommodated around 1,500. The monu-
mental wall compositions make the decora-
tion of this hall unique.
Those are the following:
- “Let u kosmos” [Flight to cosmos] by great
painter Petar Lubarda (1962). This composi-
tion represents an expressionist view of antic
mythological scene of Helios chariots as a me-
taphorical need of a human being to rule the
cosmos and to comprehend new spheres of
life and achieve spiritual exaltation.
- ,,Svečano – Putevima nove Jugoslavije” [So-
lemnly – Roads of New Yugoslavia] by Lazar
Vujaklija (painted from 1962 to 1977), as the
equivalent to Lubarda’s composition on the
opposite wall of the hall. With his stylized sym-
bols the painter finds new direction of young
socialist republic Yugoslavia somewhere
between East and West, which is the direction
of Non-Aligned Movement. Composition’s
main motifs are forest, house, bird and hu-
mans which symbolically represent the Yu-
goslav as a peacemaker with a dove in hand
and Yugoslav as a warrior with a sword in
hand, always ready to fight for his people. This
painting carries a strong message of love and
faith in strength of the republic and its future.
- “Stvaranje nove Jugoslavije” [Creation of New
Yugoslavia], a triptych-mosaic by Mladen Srbi- playing. The gathering is followed by celebra-
nović which is 150 m2 large was awarded the tion and the celebration is followed by love
third prize on the competition for the deco- and building as depicted on the third part of
ration of the Palace. The mosaic consists of the mosaic. Once taken by Srbinović symbo-
three parts with its left part explaining the lism everybody could easily understand that
gathering of the people around the new idea Srbinović shows the ascent of the new repu-
of Yugoslavism with the presence of the Sun blic through the new idea of Yugoslavism re-
represented as the idea itself. The middle presented by the Sun.
part of the mosaic is the largest one and re- The thematic layer of Yugoslavia Hall artworks
presents the solemn announcement of the was supposed to show the idea of faith in the
new republic with the choir singing and music future of the young socialist republic.