- 1939 is considered to be the year naïve art was born in Kovačica. It was in that year that Martin Paluška and Ján Sokol began to paint, without any knowledge of the academic theory behind what they were doing.
- Somewhat later, they were joined by other, now-famous, naïve artists, including Michal Bíreš, Vladimír Boboš, Martin Jonáš, and Ján Knjazovic.
- In the beginning, the motifs on their paintings were not at all typical of the Banat region: they painted gondolas, romantic castles, even African animals…
- This changed in 1953, when the local founders of naïve art received some advice from Stojan Trumić, an academic painter from Pančevo. From then on, they began to depict what they saw, breathed, and felt… scenes from everyday life in Kovačica.
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