Jurica Ribar (

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, 26 March 1918 - Trebaljevo near

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, 3 October 1943) was a Yugoslav painter.

Biography

He was the younger son of the politician

Ivan Ribar Ivan Ribar (; 21 January 1881 – 2 February 1968) was a Croatian politician who served in several governments of various forms in Yugoslavia. Ideologically a Pan-Slavist and communist, he was a prominent member of the Yugoslav Partisans, who r ...

and brother of Communist Yugoslavia's hero

Ivo Lola Ribar Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the ...

. Jurica grew up and was educated in

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, where he finished elementary school and the Second Men's High School, and in March 1941 he graduated from the Faculty of Law. During his studies, he actively participated in a student political movement as a member of the illegal

League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia , SKOJ mk, Сојуз на комунистичката младина на Југославија, СКМЈ sl, Zveza komunistične mladine Jugoslavije, ZKMJ , colorcode = red , founded = 1919 , dissolved = 1948 , succeeded by = League of S ...

. He was actively involved in art, and mostly in painting. He attended the painting school with

Jovan Bijelić Jovan Bijelić ( sr-cyr, Јован Бијелић ( – 12 March 1964) was a painter and academic. Bijelić is one of the most important representatives of color expressionism in Yugoslavia. The Department of Fine Arts and Music of the Serbian A ...

, and in 1938 he became a member of the painting group "Ten", which consisted of many later famous painters, such as Ljubica Cuca Sokić, Aleksa Čelebonović, Nikola Graovac and others. After the occupation, in 1941, he became a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Initially he was active in occupied Belgrade, and in the autumn he joined the

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. He took part in combat during the Partisan Long march and in major battles on Neretva and Sutjeska rivers. He was mortally wounded in early October 1942 while defending liberated Kolasin against Chetnik forces. He died later in a partisan hospital in the nearby village Trebaljevo and was interred there, but his remains were later moved to the Belgrade New Cemetery and interred with those of his mother, Antonija (Tonica) Ribar. He also had misgivings when the action was taken to the extreme. He was killed during a

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battle with the

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in October 1943. After the war, Jurica's paintings were put on display in exhibitions organized by Cuca.

Opus and group "Ten"

Jurica Ribar's painting activity lasted only seven years - from his first exhibition, after graduating from the painting school of Jovan Bijelić, in January 1934, to the beginning of

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in Yugoslavia and his joining the Yugoslav Partisans in September 1941. He mainly worked on landscapes, figures, still lifes, portraits, flowers, terraces and parks. After a joint exhibition with Danica Antić, Nikola Graovac and Aleksa Čelebonović, Jurica continued to paint even more active and was especially interested in colour, and then his works Bokal with white flowers and blue background and

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with fish were created. His painting work was significantly influenced by visits to

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, where he stayed during 1936, 1937 and 1938 with the painter

Marko Čelebonović Marko Čelebonović ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Челебоновић; 21 November 1902 – 23 June 1986) was one of the most famous Serbian painters of the 20th century.Aleksa Čelebonović. His several-month stays in

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and

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significantly influenced the development of his painting talent, so he abandoned expressionism and began the search for a rich artistic expression in direct relation to nature. At that time, several works with motifs of landscapes from the south of France in completely green colour were created, among which are Landscapes from France and Hospitals in Saint Tropez. His "green phase", during which he relied on nature, was supported by a similar phase in which the painter Marko Celebonović was at the time. In his work, he later approached realism, and this phase lasted from 1937 to 1941, during which he painted in his small Belgrade studio in a kindergarten on the Danube. In 1938, he was one of the founders of the painting group "Ten", which included other young painters - Ljubica Cuca Sokić, Danica Antić, Bogdan Šuput, Stojan Trumić, Aleksa Čelebonović, Nikola Graovac, Dusan Vlajić, Bora Grujić. and Milivoj Nikolajević. Although heterogeneous in their composition, there were academic painters with a university education, but also painters by vocation, who belonged to various social strata from the working class, through the intelligentsia to the bourgeoisie. What this group had in common was that they were all painters and students of Jovan Bijelić. Some of the members of the group perished during the Second World War, while the survivors were significant artists in the post-war period. This group of painters exhibited together in February 1940, where Jurica exhibited nine of his works - two landscapes from France, five still lifes, one flower and a painting in the park. He also exhibited during 1939 at the Spring and Autumn Exhibitions in Belgrade. At the Spring Exhibition, he exhibited his works Landscape from France and Landscape from the

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, and at the autumn exhibition, a large self-portrait called ''The Young Man with the Blue Ribbon''. Among the most significant works of Jurica Ribar, created from 1933 to 1941, are ''The Man with the Hard Collar'', ''In the Tavern'', ''Flowers in a Blue Vase'', ''Flowers in a White Jug'', ''Flowers'', ''Still Life'', ''Still Life with Fish'', ''Still Life with Metronome'', ''Landscape from Saint Tropez'', ''Woman in front of a mirror'', ''Still life'', ''Landscape from Dedinje'', ''Still life with a chicken'', ''Hospital in Saint Tropez'', ''Houses in Saint Tropez'', ''Landscape from Saint Tropez'', ''Garden in Saint Tropez'', ''Sea in Saint Tropez'', ''Composition I'', ''Young man with blue ribbon'' (self-portrait), ''Portrait of a girl'', ''Still life with an angel'', ''Landscape from the Danube'', ''Landscape from

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'', ''Terrace in Petrovac na moru'', ''Composition II'', ''From the workshop'', ''In the park'', and ''Landscape from Bileća''.

References

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