Milorad Bata Mihailović (8 February 1923 – 23 April 2011) was a

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painter.

Biography

Mihailović was born in

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. Since 1946, he studied in the class of professor

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at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in

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. One year later, Mihalović went to

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and was one of young Serbian painters who founded the

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''Zadarska grupa''. The group comprised also young and gifted painters such as

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, Ljubinka Jovanović,

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, Kossa Bokšan and Vera Božičković. He worked and lived in Zadar from March to August 1947. In 1951, he was one of the founders of the art group ''Eleven'' (Jedanaestorica grupa) in Belgrade. Mihailović left Yugoslavia and went to Paris with his wife Ljubinka Jovanović in May 1952. For the next decades, he lived and worked alternately in Paris and Belgrade. In 1985, Mihailović was elected member of

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 ...

. He died in Paris.

Work and solo exhibitions (selection)

Mihailović was one of the first representatives of Serbian

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. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, self-portraits and interiors. His painting was influenced by

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and

abstract Art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

. Since 1947, when he first exhibited in Belgrade, Mihailović had about one hundred group exhibitions on all continents. In 1951, his first solo exhibition was arranged in Belgrade and a retrospective at

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in 1981. *Galerie Rive Gauche Paris in 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1968. *Galerie Jeanne Bucher Paris in 1958. *Galerie Ariel Paris in 1961, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1980 and 1985 *Galerie Nova Spectra

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in 1962. *Galerie Le Zodiaque

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in 1963. *Galerie Birch

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in 1964. *Salon Muzej Savremene Umetnosti Belgrade in 1965. *Galerie Nord

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in 1967 and 1970. *Galleri Haaken

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in 1969. *Galleri Eklund

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(Sweden) in 1975. *Galerie Médicis

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(Belgium), Kunsthandel M. L. de Boer

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and Galleri Galax

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in 1976. *Galerie Nadar

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in 1978 and 1983. * Galerija likovnih umetnosti poklon zbirka Rajka Mamuzića

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in 1979.Official Website b
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, Retrieved on 2017-01-27.

References

*Stojan Ćelić, ''Slikarstvo Miloroda Bate Mihailovića: pamćenje zemlje, velike priče'', SANU, Belgrade 1989. *Dinko Davidov, ''Milorad Bata Mihailović'', Galerija Srpske Akademije Nauke i Umetnosti, Belgrade 2005, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Mihailovic, Milorad Bata 1923 births 2011 deaths Serbian painters Yugoslav painters