Milorad Bata Mihailović

Milorad Bata Mihailović (French: Bata Mihailovitch, Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Бата Михаиловић; 8 February 1923 – April 23, 2011) was a Serbian painter and member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade.

Milorad Bata Mihailović
Born February 8, 1923
Pančevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died April 23, 2011
Paris, France
Nationality Serbian
Known for Painter

Biography

Mihailović was born in Pančevo, and moved as a child with his family to Belgrade. It was while he was in the army, that Mihailović enrolled the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1946, Mihalović was admitted immediately to the second semester in the class of professor Ivan Tabaković. Searching for the artistic freedom in a gloomy communist Yugoslavia, Mihalović went to Zadar 1947 where the whole group of young Serbian painters came. The Zadar group comprised also young and gifted painters such as Mića Popović, Ljubinka Jovanović, Petar Omčikus, Kosa Bokšan and Vera Božičković. The group came from the Academy of the 1947, then founded the artistic group "Eleven" with which Mihailović had exhibitions until 1951. Mihailović arrived in Paris with his wife Ljubinka Jovanović, on 9 May 1952, where he lived and works occasionally returning to Belgrade.

Since 1947, when he first exhibited in Belgrade, Mihailović had roughly a hundred group exhibitions on all continents. His first solo exhibition was arranged in 1951 in Belgrade and a retrospective at Art Gallery 'Cvijeta Zuzorić' of Belgrade in 1981.

Strongly devouted to medieval Serbian art, culture and history, Mihalović painted dozens of works inspired by the fresco paintings from the Serbian monasteries in Kosovo, including Gračanica, Visoki Dečani and Bogorodica Ljeviška.

In 1985, Mihailović was elected member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in The Department of Fine Arts and Music. He died in Paris.

Paintings

Mihailović started painting in the spirit of realism and traditionalism, and shortly thereafter found the language of expressionism, which are later changed in a few style poetics. If he came to the border abstraction, Mihailović had never crossed that the Rubicon of art. Before he was a follower of intense coloristic painting that had a long tradition in Serbian modernism. His artistic gesture is violent, euphoric, fast, explosive, whirling, without any contemplation during operation. His expressive forms are distorted, barely recognizable, bathed in a rich chromatic range. It is often noted in his work distinctive ornaments and details of the Serbian medieval fresco painting.

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