Milo Milunović (
Cyrillic
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: Мило Милуновић; Born 6 August 1897 – 11 February 1967) was a
Montenegrin painter. He dabbled in both
Impressionism
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and
Cubism
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Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...
.
Biography
Milunović was born in
Cetinje
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,
Montenegro
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, but was educated in
Shkodër
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,
Monza
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,
Florence
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Florence ...
(under the apprenticeship of
Augusto Giacometti), and later in
Paris
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. He joined the Montenegrin army in the World War I, and from 1919 to 1922 lived in Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of
Cézanne. He spent 1923 in
Prčanj
Prčanj ( Montenegrin: Прчањ, ) is a small town along the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 1128 people.
It is located 5 kilometres west of Kotor, opposite to Dobrota and between the sett ...
, where he painted frescoes in the local church. From 1924 to 1926 he lived in
Zagreb
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, Paris, and later
Belgrade
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, where with two colleagues he founded the
Academy of Arts, Belgrade. He painted his most successful works between 1926 and 1932, most of which were impressionist.
Among his pupils were the painters
Danica Đurović and
Nikola Gvozdenović Gvozdo.
[''Painters of Montenegro''. Originated and developed by Bato Tomašević; text by Mladen Lompar; photographs by Dragoljub Zamurović; ranslator Magde Phillips Tomašević Podgorica: Atlas Group: CID, 2010 (Beograd: Publikum), pp. 102–103]
Painting
His works were characterized by a rationalistic approach, both to composition and space. Anti-illusionistic devices were used in the representation of space. Milunović's art can sometimes be seen as abstract, other times as impressionistic, and even sometimes as
Fauvist.
References
External links
Webpage with Milunović's works
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Montenegrin painters
Artists from Cetinje
1897 births
1967 deaths
Yugoslav artists
Impressionist painters
Cubist artists