Ljubica "Cuca" Sokić (9 December 1914 – 8 January 2009) was a prominent

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and Yugoslav

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of the twentieth century.

Biography

She was born in

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, where her mother Ruža was refugee during the

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. Her father was Manojlo Sokić, a journalist, who owned defunct Belgrade paper

Pravda ''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most in ...

. She attended the high school in Belgrade, where

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was her professor. She was also taught painting by, among others, Beta Vukanović and

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. She also studied in

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from 1936 to 1939, where she attended evening nude classes at the

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, and began studying graphics at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Having returned from Paris to Belgrade, she presented her works independently for the first time in 1939 in Belgrade pavilion

Cvijeta Zuzorić Cvijeta Zuzorić (; also ''Fiora Zuzori'' or ''Flora Zuzzeri'') (1552–1648) was a lyric poet from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote in Italian, Latin and Croatian. Life She was born in Ragusa, (now called Dubrovnik) into a prominent merchan ...

. She was one of the founders of the art group ''"Desetorica"'' ("The Group of Ten"). She was a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade between 1948–72, where she taught

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and painting. In 1968 she became a corresponding member of the

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, and from 1978 regular member of the academy. Besides painting, already during her studies, she drew children's comics for her father's paper Pravda, and after the

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she illustrated Poletarac, Zmaj, Pionir, Pionirske novine. She has created illustrations for more than thirty children's books. She also worked in cinematography. Her paintings are described as ''intimistic''. At first she painted

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s, figures and

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s. Later she was moving towards simplifying forms, geometry and moderate abstraction. At times she used

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and experimental materials techniques. She received more than twenty various awards and recognitions for her artistic opus. Her sister is the famous Serbian actress and writer

Ružica Sokić Ružica Sokić ( sr-cyr, Ружица Сокић; 14 December 1934 – 19 December 2013) was a Serbian actress and writer. Biography She was born in Belgrade, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Sokić began her acting career in 1957 and was cred ...

, and her nephew is

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, the

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of Serbia. She died on 8 January 2009, aged 94, in

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. She was interred five days later at

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cemetery.

References

External links

Webpage with Sokić's worksBiography in SerbianShort biography and selected work
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sokic, Ljubica 1914 births 2009 deaths People from Bitola Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 20th-century Serbian painters Serbian women painters 20th-century women painters