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

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

of the twentieth century.

Biography

She was born in

Bitola Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki ...

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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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the co ...

. She attended the high school in Belgrade, where

Zora Petrović Zora Petrović ( Dobrica, May 17, 1894 – Belgrade, May 25, 1962) was a Serbian painter. Her notable works can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad. Biography She attend ...

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

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and

Ivan Radović Ivan Radović ( sr-Cyrl, Иван Радовић ; 22 June 1894 – 14 August 1973) was a Serbian- Yugoslav tennis player and painter. Early life and education Ivan Radović graduated from the Teacher's College in Sombor, where he finished as ...

. 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

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. 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

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

, 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

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

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. Born in Belgrade, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Sokić began her acting career in 1957 and was credited in over 40 films a ...

, and her nephew is Abdulah Numan, 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

Novo Groblje The New Cemetery ( sr, Ново гробље, ''Novo groblje'') is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian ...

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 artists