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Ljubinka Jovanović
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| Born | October 6, 1922 |
| Died | August 3, 2015 |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Known for | Painter |
Ljubinka Jovanović (French: Lybinka Jovanovich; Serbian Cyrillic: Љубинка Јовановић), Beograd, 1922 – 3 August 2015) was a Serbian painter who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade. She was strongly influenced by the iconic traditions of the Serbian medieval art, and inspired by the Serbo-Byzantine style of painting, developed in a modern style with specific signs on her chromatic paintings.
Biography
Ljubinka Jovanović was studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in class of prof. Ivan Tabaković. With her future husband, Milorad Bata Mihailović and his friends from the class Mića Popović, Petar Omčikus, Kossa Bokchan and Vera Božičković Popović in the 1947 year she went to Adriatic Coast where they formed an art commune “Zadar group”. She was a member of the group 'Eleven'. She has been exhibiting since 1951. Ljubinka Jovanović had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. With Bata Mihailović settled in Paris 1952. She died in Paris, France, on 3 August 2015.
Art
Like all members of the postwar generation of Serbian painter and Ljubinka Jovanović has gone through several phases, which, however, compared to other yet to be less dramatic in the stylistic changes. Basically, it is still relied on the power of color in the picture and less paid attention to form. Form in her paintings, after neo abstract period, but at the end of the 1960s took on the meaning of the character that has a close and direct sourcing in the form of asceticism a medieval Serbian fresco and icon painting. Upon such visual image it has built one of the author's most recognizable works in Serbian contemporary art of the late 20th century.
Solo exhibition (selection)
- 1952 Galerija ULUS, Belgrade
- 1953 Galerie Marseille, Paris
- 1964 Galerie Ariel, Paris
- 1965 Galerie Peintres du Monde, Paris, Long Island University, New York City
- 1967 Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade
- 1976 Galerie de la ville, Rouen
- 1977 Galerie Aritza, Bilbao
- 1977 Galerie Toroves, Santiago, Galerie Rive gauche, Paris
- 1980 Arcus, Paris
- 1981 Moderna galerija, Budva
- 1990 Umetnički paviljon „Cvijeta Zuzorić“, Belgrade (retrospective)
- 1992 Savremena galerija Centra za kulturu, Pančevo
- 1995 Galerija “Nadežda Petrović”, Čačak
- 1996 Galerija „Nikola I“, Centar za kulturu, Nikšić
- 1998 Galerija Haos, Belgrade
- 2000 Galerija Rajka Mamuzića, Novi Sad
- 2002 Galerija Centra za kulturu, Despotovac
- 2003 Moderna galerija, Budva
- 2006 Galerija RTS, Belgrade
- 2010 Serbian Cultural Center, Paris (retrospective)
