Spomenik NOB-e Resanovci

Positioned right in the center of the very small village of Resanovci, BiH is a monument and memorial crypt dedicated to fallen fighters from the People's Liberation Struggle. This work was created by famous Serbian painter Miloš Bajić, who is widely considered to be among the pioneers of the modernist artistic movement in Yugoslavia. In post-WWII Yugoslavia, Bajić, who himself had served as a Partisan during the war, was one of the earliest artists to actively campaign against the "Socialist Realism" art style in the early 1950s, putting on his first solo show of purely abstract works in Belgrade in 1952. While his work in modernist frescos and mosaic art did not extend greatly into the realm of monument building during his life, one efforts towards monument creation that he did take (one which was often taken by notable Yugoslav artists) was to build a monument to his fallen fellow Partisan fighters in his hometown, in this case, Resanovci, BiH. Completed in 1971, Bajić called this work the "Partisan Necropolis". It is composed of a tall concrete pillar roughly 10-11m tall, which is flanked by a square concrete wall section and a short pillar. The tall pillar and wall elements contain abstract mosaic murals depicting a monochrome radiating sun symbol, with both sun images divided equally down the center into black and white sections. No figurative depictions exist at this monument at all. While the symbolism of the dual-tone sun symbol is not immediately clear, it may refer to such basic ideas of duality such as 'war and peace', such as the Chinese ying yang symbol. Laying flat at the center of the complex is a tomb block slab which is decorated with a mosaic design featuring the names of the region's fallen fighters. At some point during the Bosnian War during the 1990s, Bajić's monument complex fell into neglect and suffered considerable damage. Markings left behind on the monument's mosaics indicate that it may have been hit by not only bullets, but artillery shells as well. The complex continues to sit in a poor neglected condition up until present day.

It deserves attention, but a brief stop is sufficient, partly because it does not seem to have received much importance, given the lack of information about this monument