- Martin Jonaš is one of the most significant authors in the world of naive art.
- He was born in 1924 in Kovačica, where he finished the elementary school, spent all of his working days and entire lifetime, working mostly as a farmer and an artist.
- He was the leading figure of the Kovačica naive art and one of the founders of the Gallery of naive art in Kovačica.
- During his prolific and active artistic work, he exhibited on more than 450 collective and solo exhibitions, where he received many international art awards.
- At the Grand International drawing Exhibition in Italy in 1978 he won the Golden medal along with Salvador Dalí and Renato Guttuso.
- The main motives on his paintings are people, the farmers with their large, working hands and heavy feet, with small grotesque looking heads settled in the scenery of Slovak houses and fields.
- Martin Jonaš passed away in 1996 in Kovačica – that same year, with the support of Matica slovačka, a memorial plaque was unveiled at his house.
- Gallery of naive art keeps 28 of his original works in its collection.
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