Mario Maskareli (Cetinje

Cetinje

Cetinje , Цетиње / Cetinje , Italian: Cettigne, Greek: Κετίγνη, Ketígni) is a town and Old Royal Capital of Montenegro. It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro , with the official residence of the President of Montenegro...

, 20 October 1918 – Risan

Risan

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, 26 August 1996), a Yugoslav

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 painter, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts

Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade

The Faculty of Fine Arts is a higher education institution in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1937, by Toma Rosandić, Milo Milunović and Petar Dobrović. The Faculty is organized in three departments, of painting, sculpture and printmaking.- External links :*...

 in Belgrade

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, Department of Painting in 1951, with Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović

Nedeljko Gvozdenovic

Nedeljko Gvozdenović was a Serbian painter of world renown. He is considered to be the greatest representative of the Belgrade School of Painting.-External links:*...

. In 1951 he attended a specialized course in graphic art with Professor Boško Karanović. He spent the academic year 1950/51 teaching at the Applied Arts School in Herceg-Novi.

He was the member of the following groups: Samostalni (The Independent), Beogradska grupa (Belgrade Group) and Lada. He went on study tours to Greece

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, Italy

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, France

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, Belgium

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 and Netherlands

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.

He exhibited for the first time in 1948. During his artistic career, he was engaged in painting, and graphic art, illustration, scenography, interior design and organization of cultural events.

He won several prizes and awards, among which are the Prize for Painting at the 5th October Salon in Belgrade (1961), the Golden Pen of Belgrade for the illustration of poetry (1973) and the First Prize for Painting at the 14th Winter Salon at Herceg-Novi (1981).

His works can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade

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, The Gallery of Fine Arts - Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić

The Gallery of Fine Arts - Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzic

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 in Novi Sad, the National Museum of Montenegro

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 at Cetinje and other collections both at home and abroad. He lived and worked in Belgrade and Prčanj

Prčanj

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.

Painter Bruno Mascarelli (:hr:Bruno Mascarelli) is his paternal half-brother.

External links

Art Gallery Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad

Further reading

1. Miodrag Pavlović, Mario i ekspresionisti. Uz slikarsku biografiju Marija Maskarelija (Mario and the Expressionists. A Contribution to the Artistic Biography of Mario Maskareli), Letopis Matice srpske 157, 427, 6, Novi Sad, jun 1981, 981–920.
2. Petar Petrović, "A Word about the Drawings of Mario Maskareli", in: Mario Maskareli. Crteži (Mario Maskareli. Drawings), KC „Jadran Art“, Perast, 2004, [9]-[10].
3. Lidija Merenik, Ljiljana Ćinkul, Draginja Maskareli, Mario Maskareli. Mala retrospektiva: grafike i crteži/Mario Maskareli. A Small Retrospective: Prints and Drawings, Galerija Grafički kolektiv, Beograd, 2005. ISBN 86-7726-010-2
4. Mario Maskareli. Grafike (Mario Maskareli. Engravings), Galerija likovne umetnosti Poklon zbirka Rajka Mamuzića, Novi Sad, 2007. ISBN 978-86-85365-14-0