Ljubica Sokic
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Ljubica Cuca Sokić was a Serbian
painter
. She was born in Bitola
.
She attended the high school in Belgrade, where Zora Petrović
was her professor. She was also taught painting by Beta Vukanović
, Ljuba Ivanović and Ivan Radović. Ljubica Sokić worked and presented her works in galleries in Paris
, in the time between 1936 and 1939. Having returned from Paris to Belgrade, she presented her works independently for the first time in 1939 in Belgrade pavilion ″Cvijeta Zuzorić
". She was one of the founders of the art group "Desetorica" ("The Group of Ten"). She was a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade between 1948 and 1972. In 1968 she became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
, and from 1978 Academician
. Besides painting, she created illustrations for children's books and magazines. She also worked in cinematography.
Her paintings are described as intimistic. At first she painted still life
, landscape
s, figures and portrait
s. Later she was moving towards simplifying forms, geometry and moderate abstraction. At times she used collage
and experimental materials techniques.
She died on 8 January 2009 in Belgrade
and was buried on 13 January at that city's Novo Groblje
cemetery.
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. She was born in Bitola
Bitola
Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia. The city is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba and Nidže mountains, 14 km north of the...
.
She attended the high school in Belgrade, where Zora Petrović
Zora Petrovic
Zora Petrović was a famous Serbian painter. Her works can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade, and in Novi Sad, in the collection of Pavle Beljanski....
was her professor. She was also taught painting by Beta Vukanović
Beta Vukanovic
Beta Vukanović was a Serbian painter and centenarian. Born in Bamberg, Germany to a Serbian family, Vukanovic initially studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. She also worked with Anton Ažbe. From 1898 she lived mostly in Belgrade...
, Ljuba Ivanović and Ivan Radović. Ljubica Sokić worked and presented her works in galleries in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, in the time between 1936 and 1939. Having returned from Paris to Belgrade, she presented her works independently for the first time in 1939 in Belgrade pavilion ″Cvijeta Zuzorić
Cvijeta Zuzoric
Cvijeta Zuzorić was a lyric poetess from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote mainly in Italian, but even sometimes in Serbo-Croatian language.-Life:...
". She was one of the founders of the art group "Desetorica" ("The Group of Ten"). She was a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade between 1948 and 1972. In 1968 she became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most prominent academic institution in Serbia today...
, and from 1978 Academician
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
. Besides painting, she created illustrations for children's books and magazines. She also worked in cinematography.
Her paintings are described as intimistic. At first she painted still life
Still life
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...
, landscape
Landscape
Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
s, figures and portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
s. Later she was moving towards simplifying forms, geometry and moderate abstraction. At times she used collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
and experimental materials techniques.
She died on 8 January 2009 in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
and was buried on 13 January at that city's Novo Groblje
Novo groblje
Novo groblje is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian cemetery in Belgrade. The newly developed cemetery in that period had no chapel or church...
cemetery.