Ljubinka Jovanović

Ljubinka Jovanović (French: Lybinka Jovanovich; Serbian Cyrillic: Љубинка Јовановић), Beograd, 1922-3 August 2015) was a Serbian painter who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade. She was strongly influenced by the iconic traditions of the Serbian medieval art, and inspired by the Serbo-Byzantine style of painting, developed in a modern style with specific signs on her chromatic paintings.[1]


Ljubinka Jovanović
Born (1922-10-06)October 6, 1922
Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died August 3, 2015(2015-08-03)
Paris, France
Nationality Serbian
Known for Painter

Biography

Ljubinka Jovanović was studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in class of prof. Ivan Tabaković. With her future husband, Milorad Bata Mihailović and his friends from the class Mića Popović, Petar Omčikus, Kossa Bokchan and Vera Božičković Popović in the 1947 year she went to Adriatic Coast where they formed an art commune “Zadar group”. She was a member of the group 'Eleven'. She has been exhibiting since 1951. Ljubinka Jovanović had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. With Bata Mihailović settled in Paris 1952. She died in Paris, France, on 3 August 2015.[1]

Art

Like all members of the postwar generation of Serbian painter and Ljubinka Jovanović has gone through several phases, which, however, compared to other yet to be less dramatic in the stylistic changes. Basically, it is still relied on the power of color in the picture and less paid attention to form. Form in her paintings, after neo abstract period, but at the end of the 1960s took on the meaning of the character that has a close and direct sourcing in the form of asceticism a medieval Serbian fresco and icon painting. Upon such visual image it has built one of the author's most recognizable works in Serbian contemporary art of the late 20th century.

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Sources

  1. 1 2 "Umrla Ljubinka Jovanović Mihailović". novosti.rs. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
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