Milivoj Nikolajević
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Milivoj Mića Nikolajević (Sremska Mitrovica, 24 March 1912 — Novi Sad, 27 August 1988) was a well-known Serbian painter, a member of the "Group of Ten."
Biography and work[edit]
Milivoj Nikolajević was born 24 March 1912 in Sremska Mitrovica in the family of an artistic carpenter. He taught primary school in Sremska Mitrovica, Ljubljana and Ruma in the cities where his father worked. He attended art school (teaching and academic department) in Belgrade from 1932. until 1939. year in the class of professors Ivan Radović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Simeon Roksandić. 1938. is one of the founders of the group "Desetoro" (Ljubica-Cuca Sokić, Danica Antić, Bogdan Šuput, Jurica Ribar, Stojan Trumić, Aleksa Čelebonović, Nikola Graovac, Dušan Vlajić, Bora Grujić and Milivoj Nikolajević).
Milivoje Nikolajević's diverse and rich creativity ranged from an intimate expression defined in the themes of portraits, nudes and still lifes thirties last century, through a particular interpretation of social realist themes to the realm of abstraction, which he entered at the end of the fifties. He is the author of more than 2000 works of art.
In addition to painting, Nikolajević was also engaged in drawing as a special discipline, and among his drawings, those with the theme of female and male nudes have a prominent place. He made them with different techniques: from oil and brown chalk, to shower and works made by combining different techniques, but always with the desire to notice the personality traits that can be seen from body movements and facial expressions and to show what is individual and characteristic of a certain figure. Particularly significant are his nudes made with pressed coal in natural size, as well as erotic drawings from the 1950s.[citation needed]
Since 1947 in Novi Sad, he was the acting director of the "Vojvodina Museum". From 1950 until 1976, he was the manager of the "Matica Srpska Gallery", when the most significant collection of Serbian painting was created 18th- and 19th-century. In the period from 1952 to 1956, he was one of the founders of art colonies in Vojvodina. In 1974, he participated in the founding of the "Academy of Art" in Novi Sad and became a regular professor of Drawing.
He was the president of Matica srpska from 1979 until 1983. He participated in the founding of the "Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts", of which he became a regular member in 1981.
For more than six decades, his creative output in the field of fine arts (painting, drawing, Graphic design) includes over fifty solo exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as at over 400 group exhibitions, exhibitions abroad and about 150 group exhibitions in the country. Milivoj Nikolajević was awarded all the highest Yugoslavian awards in the field of fine art, as well as all the highest state awards in the field of fine art:
- the "October Award of Novi Sad" (1961],
- "Seventh of July Award" (1975),
- "Vojvodina Liberation Award" (1978),
- "Charter of the City of Novi Sad - November Charter" (1979),
- "AVNOJ Award" (1984).
Milivoj Nikolajević's artistic creations are represented in all the most important galleries and museums in the country such as Narodni muzej, Matica srpska Gallery, Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts in Belgrade and Novi Sad as well as in many important private collections in the country and abroad.
One of Nikolajević's activities less known to the public is his collecting activity in the domain of small format, which included the techniques of drawing, watercolor and pastel. Exchanging New Year's greetings with his colleagues over a long series of years, Nikolajević formed a collection that represents an interesting insight into our art scene of the second half of the 20th-century. The largest number of works are miniatures of our eminent graphic artists, painters and sculptors such as Petar Lubarda, Ivan Tabaković, Predrag Milosavljević, Cuce Sokić, Nikola Graovac, Aleksa Čelebonović, Boško Petrović, Jovan Soldatović, Stojan Trumić, and Slovenian authors Ankica Oprešnik, Janez Bernik, Andrej Jemec, Marijan Pregalj and others are also represented. This valuable collection is now a witness to an unknown flow of Serbian art, to the exchange of small-format works of art that became traditional, and perhaps speaks most of all to that other side of Nikolajević's artistic personality, to the reputation he enjoyed among all mmembers of the "Group of Ten."
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