Predrag Milićević - Barbarien

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Predrag Milićević - Barbarien
Предраг Милићевић - Барбаријен
Predrag Milićević - Barbarien, Serbian painter
Predrag Milićević - Barbarien
Born
Predrag Milićević - Barbarien

(1963-02-17)February 17, 1963
Jagodina
 Yugoslavia
DiedMay 26, 2013(2013-05-26) (aged 50)
Jagodina,
 Serbia
NationalitySerbian
Known forPainter
MovementOutsider art
WebsiteBarbarien - Predrag Milićević

Predrag Milićević - Barbarien (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Милићевић - Барбаријен; Jagodina, February, 2nd 1963 – May, 5th 2013) was a Serbian outsider art (also used terms: marginal art, brut art) painter.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Jagodina in 1963. He lived in Jagodina and Belgrade. He began doing painting in 1992 and very soon he began to exhibit successfully. His first independent exhibition named Punch on the middle class, in Stara kapetanija Gallery, Zemun, January 1994, was proclaimed the exhibition of the week this month in Belgrade. He became the member of Association of Serbian Artists in 1994. On several occasions he participated in Spring Exhibitions of Association in Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion in Belgrade. He died in Jagodina in 2013.[1][2][3][4][5]

Artistic style[edit]

He liberated himself from unrest by painting. With his rich intellect and irony, in his short but very prolific and expressive lifetime, the artist pulled the suggestive power of his agony out of his internal depths, transforming it into rich coloring and wide and energetic strokes of his paintbrush. His in-satiate fascination with life in all aspects elevated the conflicts and passion to the level of universally human, thus creating the inner tension of form. Expressive and distorted figures in his paintings point to human faults, and fights between the good and the evil. Metaphor of human weakness is expressed in the presentations of animals which, like in fables, reveal the identity of human characters. He pulled out the monsters of his life abyss and placed them on the canvas raw. This contour of his soul in the claws of absurd is created in pain, momentarily and expressively. He embodied all his conflicts in united forces which emerge from the abyss of wandering souls. With his infantile lust for power over his surroundings, Barbarian gets rid of the feeling of inferiority in the very creative act. It was only then that he domineered and achieved intellectual balance, and belonged to himself. Thanks to characteristic pictorial language of expressive and raw artistic articulation he introduced a wealth of inventiveness in art brut, i.e. outsider art in Serbia. Besides Vojislav Jakic, Sava Sekulić and Ilija Bosilj Bašičevic, he can be considered a worldly classic.[1]

Exhibitions and awards[edit]

Among the most significant world exhibitions where he participated were certainly those in Paris and Bratislava, among which the Triennials and Biennials in Slovakia and Serbia were most noteworthy. He received many awards and recognition, the most remarkable being Grand Prix for painting at the Thirteenth Biennial of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, Serbia in 2007. The greatest collection of his paintings is at Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (MNMA), Jagodina, Serbia.

Gallery[edit]

  • Hypocrisy (from the cycle Prison Days), 2003, MNMA, Jagodina
    Hypocrisy (from the cycle Prison Days), 2003, MNMA, Jagodina
  • The Bridge over the Turbulent River Morava (from the cycle Prison Days), 2003, MNMA, Jagodina
    The Bridge over the Turbulent River Morava (from the cycle Prison Days), 2003, MNMA, Jagodina
  • Scramble, 2012, MNMA, Jagodina
    Scramble, 2012, MNMA, Jagodina

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b N. Krstić, Barbarien, monograph, MNMA, Јагодина, 2016
  2. ^ Нина Крстић, Наивна и маргинална уметност Србије, монографија, МНМУ, Јагодина, 2007; p. 119
  3. ^ Нина Крстић, Барбериен, монографија, МНМУ, Јагодина, 2010; p. 79
  4. ^ Nina Krstić, Outsiders, catalogue, MNMU, Jagodina, 2013; p. 27
  5. ^ N. Krstić, Outsider Art in Serbia, MNMA, Јагодина, 2014, pp. 51-55

Literature[edit]

  • Krstić N. (Ed.) (2007) Naïve and Marginal Art of Serbia. MNMA: Jagodina
  • Krstić N. (Ed.) (2010) Barbarien. MNMA: Jagodina
  • Krstić N. (Ed.) (2013) Outsiders. MNMA: Jagodina
  • Krstić N. (Ed.) (2014) Outsider Art in Serbia. MNMA: Jagodina
  • Krstić N. (Ed.) (2016) Barbarien. MNMA: Jagodina

External links[edit]

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