Vera Božičković-Popović (8 May 1920 – 6 March 2002) was a Yugoslavian abstract painter.

Biography

Vera Božičković was born on 8 May 1920 in

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, Yugoslavia, now part of

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. She studied under

Marko Čelebonović Marko Čelebonović ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Челебоновић; 21 November 1902 – 23 June 1986) was a Serbian painter. Čelebonović was one of the most famous Serbian painters of the 20th century.Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметности у Београду, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies. ...

, graduating in 1949. The same year she married painter

Mića Popović Miodrag "Mića" Popović (12 June 1923 – 22 December 1996) was a Serbian painter, experimental filmmaker and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Life and work Popović was born on 12 June 1923 in Loznica. He finished grammar s ...

. The Popovićs and others, including

Petar Omčikus Petar Omčikus (; sr-Cyrl, Петар Омчикус; 6 October 1926 – 26 April 2019) was a Serbian painter and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, who lived and worked in Paris, France. Biography Omčikus was born in Sušak ...

Kosara Bokšan Kossa Bokchan ( sr-Cyrl, Косара Бокшан, January 1, 1925 in Berlin – November 21, 2009 in Belgrade) was a Serbian painter who lived in Paris. She married Petar Omčikus (Pierre Omcikous). Education In 1928, when Bokchan was th ...

, Bata Mihailović, Ljubinka Jovanović, and

Mileta Andrejević Milet Andrejević (28 September 1925 – 21 October 1989) was a Yugoslav-born American painter in the realist tradition. A classically trained artist who went through a series of different artistic periods, including post-Impressionism, Expressi ...

, had relocated to

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briefly in 1947 and formed the Zadar Group of painters. Božičković-Popović was also a member of the Association of Serbian Artists ''LADA''. The Popovićs apartment and studio 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 ...

was the site of the first Yugoslavian performance of

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

's ''

Waiting for Godot ''Waiting for Godot'' ( or ) is a 1953 play by Irish writer and playwright Samuel Beckett, in which the two main characters, Vladimir (Waiting for Godot), Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters w ...

'' in the summer of 1954. Vera Božičković-Popović died on 6 March 2002 in Belgrade.

Work

In the 1950s, Vera Božičković-Popović worked in a style called

informalism Informalism or Art Informel () is a pictorial movement from the 1943–1950s, that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II, similar to American abstract express ...

, creating roughly textured and heavily abstract paintings. Her key works include ''Untitled'' (1958-1959), ''Torched Landscape'' (1959), ''Penetration of Light'' (1960), ''Landscape'' (1961), ''Horizontal Composition'' (1961), ''Dissipation'' (1961), and ''Vertical Layering'' (1962), representing some of the most radical and most valuable examples of Art Informel in Belgrade-based painting of this artistic orientation.

References

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