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Milorad Bata Mihailović (8 February 1923 – 23 April 2011) was a Serbian painter.
Mihailović was born in
Galerija likovnih umetnosti Novi Sad
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Biography
Mihailović was born in Pančevo
Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; ; ; ; ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on the shores of rivers Timiș (ri ...
, Belgrade oblast. Since 1946, he studied in the class of professor Ivan Tabaković
Ivan Tabaković (10 December 1898, Arad – 27 June 1977, Belgrade) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Serbian painter.
Biography
Tabaković was born in Arad, then part of the Habsburg Empire, in 1898, a son of noted Serbian architect Milan T ...
at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
. One year later, Mihalović went to Zadar
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and was one of young Serbian painters who founded the art commune ''Zadarska grupa''. The group comprised also young and gifted painters such as Mića Popović, Ljubinka Jovanović, Petar Omčikus, Kosara Bokšan, Vera Božičković and Mileta Andrejević. 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. In the following 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 (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS).
The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...
. He received ''October Award'' (''Oktobarska nagrada'') in 1989. Mihailović died in Paris in 2011. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts marked the centenary of his birth with the exhibition titled 'Milorad Bata Mihailović: On the Occasion of the Birth of an Academician Rebel' held at the SASA Gallery, May 30 - August 13, 2023.
Work and solo exhibitions (selection)
Mihailović was one of the first representatives of Serbianpostmodern Art
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, ...
. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, self-portraits and interiors. His painting was influenced by Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
and abstract Art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a Composition (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...
. 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 Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion 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 The Hague
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in 1962.
*Galerie Le Zodiaque Brussels
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in 1963.
*Galerie Birch Copenhagen
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in 1964.
*Salon Muzej Savremene Umetnosti Belgrade in 1965.
*Galerie Nord Lille
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in 1967 and 1970.
*Galleri Haaken Oslo
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in 1969.
*Galleri Eklund Umeå
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(Sweden) in 1975.
*Galerie Médicis Ostend
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(Belgium), Kunsthandel M. L. de Boer Amsterdam
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and Galleri Galax Gothenburg
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in 1976.
*Galerie Nadar Casablanca
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in 1978 and 1983.
* Galerija likovnih umetnosti poklon zbirka Rajka Mamuzića Novi Sad
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in 1979.Official Website bGalerija likovnih umetnosti Novi Sad
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References