Olja Ivanjicki
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Olja Ivanjicki was a well-known Serbia
n contemporary artist, in fields such as sculpture, poetry, costume design, architecture and writing, but was best known for her painting. She had no fewer than 87 individual exhibitions at home and abroad.
, near Belgrade
to Vasily Vasilenko Ivanjicki and Veronika Mihailovna Piotrovska, who had been expelled from Russia after the October revolution.
, she came to prominence in Serbia with Mediala, a group of painters, writers, and architects, founded in 1959, which had a significant impact on Belgrade's public and cultural life in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Ivanjicki was the only female painter in the Mediala group. She won a Ford Foundation
scholarship in 1962, and migrated to the United States
, where she was introduced to pop art
. She soon returned to Serbia, where she was credited with introducing pop art
to which she had been introduced in the U.S.
She was a member of ULUS, a Belgrade artists' association, and a one-time Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Institute and a Deputy Director General of the International Biographical Center based in Cambridge
, England.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n contemporary artist, in fields such as sculpture, poetry, costume design, architecture and writing, but was best known for her painting. She had no fewer than 87 individual exhibitions at home and abroad.
Early years
She was born in 1931 in PančevoPancevo
Pančevo is a city and municipality located in the southern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina, 15 km northeast from Belgrade. In 2002, the city had a total population of 77,087, while municipality of Pančevo had 127,162 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the South Banat...
, near 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...
to Vasily Vasilenko Ivanjicki and Veronika Mihailovna Piotrovska, who had been expelled from Russia after the October revolution.
Mediala
Active since the 1950s1950s
The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959. The decade was the sixth decade of the 20th century...
, she came to prominence in Serbia with Mediala, a group of painters, writers, and architects, founded in 1959, which had a significant impact on Belgrade's public and cultural life in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Ivanjicki was the only female painter in the Mediala group. She won a Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
scholarship in 1962, and migrated to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, where she was introduced to pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
. She soon returned to Serbia, where she was credited with introducing pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
to which she had been introduced in the U.S.
She was a member of ULUS, a Belgrade artists' association, and a one-time Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Institute and a Deputy Director General of the International Biographical Center based in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, England.