Vasko Lipovac (14 June 1931 – 4 July 2006) was a

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and one of the most prominent artists of the region. He is best known for his minimalist figuration and use of intense, unmodulated and often dissonant palette. With the exception of his juvenile period of

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, he remained loyal to figuration throughout his whole career. Exceptionally prolific, he worked in various techniques and was equally skilful in using high-polished metal, polychromous wood, enamel,

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to create his sculptures,

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Biography

Vasko Lipovac was born on June 14, 1931, in

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, a small coastal settlement near

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. He was the youngest of five children in a very harmonious family of a prosperous merchant and a

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Spasoje Lipovac and Antica Lui, the daughter of a respectable landowner Maksimilijan Lui. He attended Real Grammar School in Kotor, where his drawing teacher was Mato Đuranović (1895–1973), the painter who inspired his students with the bright, shiny colors of his works. After graduating from the

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, he moved to

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in 1950 and enrolled in the Academy of Applied Arts. It is worth mentioning that during this period of the early 1950s, many future prominent artists attended Zagreb Academy of Applied Arts, such as

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, Ante Sony Jakić,

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, Mladen Pejaković,

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. Lipovac initially chose sculpture, in the class of

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, but during sophomore year (1951/1952) he switched to painting, where his mentor became Željko Hegedušić. In his final year at the Academy Lipovac created his first notable work, a stained glass "Woman with a Cat", now part of the Museum of Arts and Crafts collection. After graduation, from 1955 to 1959 Lipovac attended the Master's Workshop of professor

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. This

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gave many talented young visual artists, as diverse as

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and

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, much needed freedom and opportunity to explore and use their artistic sensibility. Shortly after joining workshop Lipovac started abstracting human figures, as well as their surroundings, to simple geometric shapes that became a hallmark of his work in following decades. Continuous strides towards radical stylization lead him to a short but very successful foray into geometric abstraction. Towards the end of Lipovac's postgraduate study the Workshop was visited by

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, who bought one of his works. This episode was finished off at the end of 1950s with an exhibition in City of

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, together with Ordan Petlevski. The exhibition was curated by Hans Hess, and received a positive review from

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. In 1959 he married Milena Matas, and they later had three sons. He spent most of the 1960 in the army, and upon returning to Zagreb he spent a year (1964–1966) as an art editor assistant in the magazine “Chemistry in industry”, which was the only full-time job he ever had. In 1965 he had the first solo exhibition, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Split; the exhibition was curated by

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, with whom Lipovac established close collaboration over the next two decades, resulting in numerous projects and exhibitions. Since 1967, Vasko Lipovac lived and worked in

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, Croatia, where the

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inspired him to fulfil his poetic vision, and to create numerous works. Four thematic units have been detected in the work of Lipovac, namely the Mediterranean, sports, the sacral and erotic. During the whole course of his active life he carried within himself the images of the native landscape of Boka Kotorska and the rich cultural heritage of his home town, while his education in Zagreb provided him with an access to the essential experiences of modernism and figurative autonomy, especially thanks to Kosta Angeli Radovani. So in his work, apart from the early abstract phase, he tried to affirm the contemporary

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and associative sculpture and figurative painting, succeeding in evoking the figures and ambiances of recognizably Mediterranean descent. No matter how stylized, that figure is full of life, just like a human being who works, thinks, feels... He was intrigued by the idea of integrating art with architecture, and especially integration of art into workspace, so he collaborated with numerous architects. Among his most prominent are the collaborations with

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( hr), Julije De Luca ( hr), Ante Rožić ( hr), Vjekoslav Ivanišević, Dinko Kovačić ( hr), Lovro Perković ( hr), Jerko Rošin ( hr), and

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. Lipovac was twice part of the team, led by architect Branko Silađin, that conceived and designed national pavilions for the

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. He made paintings that flanked the entrance of the

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for

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, and designed the exterior of the pavilion for

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, in his trademark minimalist style. Both pavilions are considered to be among the best in their respective Expos, and the pavilion for Hanover Expo was included in the 2010 exhibition ''Architecture as Landscape: A Morphology of Contemporary Croatian Architecture'' at

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. Exceptionally prolific and equally skillful in various techniques and using wide range of materials, high-polished metal, polychromous wood, enamel, terracotta or polyester to create his sculptures, reliefs and mobiles, his work encompasses many different art forms (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, illustration as well as set and costume design). As a result, he had almost 100 solo and over 200 group, juried, problem, conceptual, and important invitational

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in Croatia as well as abroad during his life. He gained a great deal of deserved popularity with the wider public and earned an equally high esteem and recognition with the professional critics and received over twenty awards and honors for his sculptures, paintings, graphics, illustrations and public monuments. In May 2006, “Slobodna Dalmacija” awarded him with the lifetime achievement award. Vasko Lipovac died on July 4, 2006. In 2015 University of Split's art gallery was renamed University Gallery "Vasko Lipovac".

Photos

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's monument in Olympic Museum Lausanne Image: Vasko_Lipovac_Perls.jpg, Perls (1996),

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(2006),

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In theatre

Since the mid-eighties Lipovac has made several highly successful excursions into performing arts and won prestigious Marul award in 1991 for set design. His works in theatre include set, costume and puppet designs: *Homer, L. Paljetak, The Travels of Ulysses, 1984–85, Puppet theater Pionir, Split - puppet and set design * C. Debussy, Toybox, M. Ravel,

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, 1985–86,

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- set and costume design * M. Vetranović, Kako bratja prodaše Jozefa (How the brothers sold Joseph), 1990,

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- set design *Muka Spasitelja našega (The Passion of our Saviour), 1991, Marulovi dani (Marulo days) - set design *

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, Ukleti pjevač ( Sire Halewyn), 1991, Split Summer Festival - set design *Nino Škrabe, Plavi Božić (Blue Christmas), 1992, Licem u lice - set design *

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, Cinco i Marinko, 1993, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design *Lada Martinac and Snježana Sinovčić, Živim, 1993, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design * I. Tijardović, Mala Floramye (Little Floramye), 2001, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design * M. de Cervantes Saavedra,

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, 2001, Gradsko kazalište mladih Split - set design

In art and pop culture

References in popular culture on Vasko Lipovac and his work: *Brod u boci (1971) - poetry book by

Arsen Dedić Arsenije "Arsen" Dedić ( sr-Cyrl, Арсеније "Арсен" Дедић, ; 28 July 1938 – 17 August 2015) was a Croatian singer-songwriter. He wrote and performed chansons, as well as film music. He was also an award-winning poet, and was o ...

was inspired by Lipovac's painting of sailor holding a ship in a bottle. * Kuća na pijesku (1985) - feature film directed by Ivan Martinac was mostly filmed at Lipovac's home in Split. *Plava murva, beach Girna Pošta on island

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(1990) - sculpture made by Ivo Milatić and Milivoj Čubre as an homage to Lipovac. It is made out of the blue painted mulberry driftwood found on the beach, and ritually repainted every year ever since. *Tako lijepa (2004) - song from the album "Male Stvari" by hip-hop group

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. *Tipkovnice u Zrak (2004) - song by rap group Dječaci ( hr). * Splitski akvarel( hr) (2009) - award winning experimental short film by Boris Poljak( hr) inspired by Lipovac's paintings. *Astrolab za Vaska Lipovca (2011) - poem by Jakša Fiamengo *Tour de Split (2012) - series of art interventions by Ivan Plazibat marking the spots of Lipovac's lost, destroyed and unrealized public art projects in Split. *Nove boje Splita (2014) -

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Tanja Štignjedec Sulić, expanding on Lipovac's 1970s work in the public art field, proposed c ommunity-based

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project using colorful interventions inspired by artists characteristic palette. *Throughout 2014 Petar Grimani performed and filmed number of pieces honoring Lipovac's work including

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in Split and performance on Piazza del Duomo in Milan using Lipovac’s dove sculpture and

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of Verige Strait (

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) inspired by Lipovac's famous painting Verige (currently on display in Presidential Palace in Zagreb). *An Archive of Stones, to be periodically activated, speculated upon, damaged and finally gilded with fiction (2015) - project by writer and

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Chris Sharp exploring the use of stones in contemporary art. Among the works appearing in the archive is Lipovac's

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made by unknown author in protest against the removal of the Blue Tree, iron sculpture erected in memory of Vasko Lipovac. *

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(2018) - animated short by Veljko Popović, awarded at

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and

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, was designed to pay homage to Lipovac. * Tereza37 (2020) -

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winning feature film. At the initiative of

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, one of the modular sculptures used during Lipovac's famous 1974. intervention i
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. *Nulti krajolik (2020) - award winning hybrid film (mixing documentary,

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and

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with

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and performance) directed by Bruno Pavić. *Priča o Plavom stablu (2021) - picture book by Anita Kojundžić Smolčić and Hana Lukas Midžić

Awards

Lipovac was honored with numerous awards: *1968 5th

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Blue Salon Purchase Award *1968

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Salon Award *1969

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Winter Salon Award *1970 NIP Slobodna Dalmacija Annual Award *1971 6th Zagreb Salon Sculpture Award *1971 3rd Split Salon Sculpture Award *1972

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Purchase Award at the 7th Yugoslav Graphic Arts Exhibition in Zagreb *1974 Purchase Award at the 8th Yugoslav Graphic Arts Exhibition in Zagreb *1974 Purchase Award at the 1st Biennale of Contemporary Croatian Graphic Arts in Split *1975 Honorary Mention at the 2nd Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in

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*1975 7th Split Salon Sculpture Award *1977

Grigor Vitez Grigorije "Grigor" Vitez ( sh-Cyrl, Григорије "Григор" Витез; 15 February 1911 – 23 November 1966) was a Yugoslav writer and translator. He is best remembered as the author of children's poetry and other forms of literature ...

Illustration Award, Zagreb *1978 Sculpture Award at the 7th

Mediterranean Biennale The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the eas ...

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

*1979 City of Split Award *1981 Purchase Award at the Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota *1986 Emanuel Vidović Prize at the Split Salon *1987 Grand Honorary Mention at the 7th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota *1988 Third Triennial of Croatian Sculpture Award *1991 Marul Award for set design *1993 Purchase Award for the monument to King

Petar Krešimir IV Petar ( sr, Петар, bg, Петър) is a South Slavic masculine given name, their variant of the Biblical name Petros cognate to Peter. Derivative forms include Pero, Pejo, Pera, Perica, Petrica, Periša. Feminine equivalent is Petra. P ...

Šibenik Šibenik () is a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Šibenik-Knin County, and is also the ...

*1993 MTG Award at the 14th Zagreb Exhibition of Drawings *1995 First prize for the monument to

Olympic Museum The Olympic Museum (french: Musée olympique) in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games in the ...

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...

*1996 Split Salon Award *1997 Award of the Croatian Watercolor Festival in Zagreb *1998 2nd prize for the monument to

in Zagreb *2003 Split Graphic Arts Biennale Award *2004 Grand Prix of the 3rd Croatian Watercolor Triennale in

Karlovac Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Zagre ...

*2006

Slobodna Dalmacija ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' () is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split. The first issue of ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' was published on 17 June 1943 by Tito's Partisans in an abandoned stone barn on Mosor, a mountain near Split, while the city ...

Lifetime Achievement Award in Split

References

External links

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Vasko Lipovac at Google Open Gallery

Google Art Project - Olympic Museum Laussane, works of Vasko Lipovac

Vasko Lipovac "Erotics", book

"Graphic Games" - Catalog of the Exhibition, Split, October 2007.

Presentation of a Gallery "Vasko Lipovac", newspaper "Slobodna Dalmacija"

Vasko Lipovac - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Vasko Lipovac - Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb

Vasko Lipovac - Ilok Town MuseumVasko Lipovac - Municipal Museum, VukovarVasko Lipovac - National Museum Zadar

* ttps://parkdubrova.eu/en/vasko-lipovac-beads-1996/ Vasko Lipovac - Dubrova Sculpture Park {{DEFAULTSORT:Lipovac, Vasko 1931 births 2006 deaths Croatian sculptors People from Kotor 20th-century Croatian sculptors 20th-century Croatian painters Croatian male painters 20th-century Croatian male artists Burials at Lovrinac Cemetery