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EN: This is a historic pump in the Zagreb’s pimping history, as it was the first one ever to be pimped. As many others, it has been re-pimped since. First coat of colour was red and white, and it was made with the best Croatian female skier ever, Janica Kostelic, in mind. They even equipped the pump with the Janica accessories (ski mask, pigtails, skis), but it didn’t last long – the vandals stole most of it until the next morning.
Apparently, soon after that, the pump was re-pimped in Mondrian style. Piet Mondrian, for those of you who skipped that day in school, was a dutch artist from the beginning of the last century, famous for his paintings of characteristic white, blue, red and yellow squares.
Now, I’m not an expert in art, but I honestly think that not only I can do exatly same painting with squares of different colour, but my dead grandmother shouldn’t have much difficulties with it, either (and all that in her present condition). So, I’m clueless why this artist (or “artist”) is so famous, I understand it is the choice of the colours. Ah! Now it makes much more sense!
Anyway, although Mondrian’s artistic value is questionable (at least by me), the paintings are nice to see, with vivid colours (and with that sentence I removed all remaining doubt about my art expertise...).
HR: Ovdje možemo vidjeti povijesnu pumpu u zagrebačkoj pimping povijesti, jer je upravo ovo bila prva pumpa koja je bila “spimpana”. Kao i par ostalih, nakon toga je bila i “re-pimpana”. Prve nanesene boje su bile crvena i bijela, a napravljena je po liku najbolje hrvatske skijašice svih vremena, Janice Kostelić. Čak su opremili pumpu sa “Janica” rekvizitima (skijaške naočale, pletenice, skije), ali to nije trajalo dugo – vandali su pokrali većinu toga već prije slijedećeg jutra.
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Pretpostavljam da je nedugo nakon toga pumpa “re-pimpana” u Mondrian stilu. Piet Mondrian je, za vas koji niste bili taj dan u školi, bio nizozemski umjetnik s početka prošlog stoljeća, poznat po svojim karakterističnim slikama bijelih, plavih, žutih i crvenih kvadrata.
E sad, ja nisam nikakav stručnjak za umjetnost, ali iskreno mislim da ne samo da ja mogu naslikati iste ovakve slike raznobojnih kvadratića, nego da ni moja pokojna baba ne bi imala nikakvih problema sa slikanjem istih (i to u njenom sadašnjem stanju). Dakle, nikako mi nije jasno zašto je ovaj umjetnik tako poznat, kažu ljudi da je stvar u izboru boja. Ah, znači tako! Boje! Sad sve ima nekakvog smisla!
U svakom slučaju, iako je Mondrianova umjetnička vrijednost upitna (barem sto se mene tiče), slike su zgodne za pogledati, jer su u jarkim bojama (i ovom rečenicom sam konačno odganao sve ostatke sumnji u svoju umjetničku crtu).
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