1936, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Blue Painting 2, 1969
Oil on canvas, 138 x 200 cm
Acquisition: Donation
Reference: 01824
Biography
Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (Serbian Cyrillic: Радомир Дамњановић Дамњан, Mostar, 10 December 1935) is a Serbian painter and conceptual artist. He lives and works in Milan and Belgrade. (…) Damnjan deals with painting, drawing, graphics, photography, film, video and performance. During the sixties, early in his career, Damnjan the painter symbolic, abstract and minimal features. Since the seventies he used to the new media – video, photography and performance, while the painting closer to its analytical stream. At the turn of the ninth decade of the last century, the theme turns Damnjan ‘still life’ and ‘(self)portraits’ which implements a floor or wall installations painted in the spirit of postmodern citation as ‘new pointillism’.
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1948, Karlovac, Croatia
Moment of Action 2, 1976
Polyester, 62 х 46 х 32 сm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 04592
Biography
Olga Milić was born in 1948 in Karlovec, Croatia. She graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1974, and post-graduate studies at the St. Martins School of Art in London in 1978/79. From 1974 to 1979 she lived in Skopje. Permanently lives in Niš, Serbia. Works in sculpture and three dimensional drawings.
1935, Belgrade, Serbia – 2019, Split, Croatia
Gallow, 1970/1971
Oil and tempera on canvas, 300 x 200 cm
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: 02172
Biography
Vladimir Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Величковић; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter who spent much of his adult life in Paris. Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Belgrade University. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić’s master workshop in Zagreb. In 1965, he was honoured with a prize at the Biennale in Paris, where he moved to the following year. Veličković gained public attention in 1967 with an exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris, which established him as one of the leading artists of the Narrative Figuration art movement.
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1932, Krk, Croatia – 1992, Belgrade, Serbia
Experiment with Newspapers, 1975
Newspaper, wood, steel poles, 112 х 83,5 х 64,5 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 03134
1938, Bijela, Serbia
The Great Fighter, 1964
Tempera on canvas, 150 x 118 cm
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: 01080
The painting “Great Fighter” belongs to the initial period in the work of the Belgrade artist Predrag Nešković, in which his further specific artistic expression was not yet differentiated. On a light-gray rough base, on which the structure of the bag can be seen, with pink, gray and ocher tones, he arranges several scattered artistic elements in an undefined space, with a distant association of a dismembered figure of a fighter.
Lj(ubica) D(amjanovska), a description from the reference card file of MoCA Skopje
1926, Sushak, Croatia – 2019, Belgrade, Serbia
Olive Trees, 1986
Ink on paper, 80 х 120 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03633
1907, Ljubotin, Monte Negro – 1974, Belgrade, Serbia (SFR Yugoslavia)
Mediterranean 2, 1952
Oil on canvas, 112 х 146 cm
Acquisition: Donated by the artist
Reference: 00950
In the aftermath of the Skopje earthquake in October 1963, Petar Lubarda donated all 26 works from his exhibition in Niš, later exhibited in Skopje, which makes him one of the biggest donors to MSU Skopje. The museum has a total of 52 works in its collection, of which 40 paintings, two watercolors and ten drawings covering two and a half decades of the artist’s career (1942-1966).
In the interwar period he studied painting in Belgrade and Paris, and from 1932 until his death in 1974 he lived in Belgrade. In his painting oeuvre, the memorized features of the sharp configuration of the harsh rocky Montenegrin landscape are constantly visible. In the beginning, he painted in the style of realistic figuration, in which the emphasized drama of the light-dark chromaticism prevails. Since the beginning of the 1950s, Lubarda is among the first known Yugoslav painters to leave the ideology of socialist realism, moving away from reduced expressive coloristic figuration to associative abstraction.
1931, Belgrade, Serbia – 2016, Belgrade, Serbia
Large Anvil, 1964
Bronze, 105 х 36 х 80 cm
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: 01371
1922, Belgrade, Serbia – 2014, Belgrade, Serbia
Vaulted Form, 1964/1965
Bronze, iron, 50 х 60 х 40 cm
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: 01665
1919, Valjevo, Serbia – 1994, Belgrade, Serbia
Luminous-Kinetic 59, 1977
Photography on canvas, 170 х 123 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 02675
