MILJKOVIĆ Miodrag · Mija
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MILJKOVIĆ Miodrag · Mija
Born in 1956 in Novi Sad.
Finished "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" Grammar School and the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Class of Prof. Boško Petrović (1982). Back in 1975, he took first lessons from Mića Mihajlović. In 1980, worked at the studio of Nikola and Bora Popržan; in the period from 1981 to 1982, worked at the studio of Boško Petrović; from 1992 until 1994, worked at the studio of the sculptor Neša Stanković.
Has held about 50 one-man shows (Novi Sad, Belgrade, Niš, Kikinda...)
He participated in and/or organized more than 70 art colonies.
Won the first prize for painting at the 13th Novi Sad Salon.
| Petrovaradin Trench looked a great deal like an Oriental town, in terms of the atmosphere on the market place, clothes, shops. And the poetics of Miodrag Mija Miljković are, at first sight, unilateral and plain, with dominant figurative expression, and understated narration; he tries to find inspiration in the transposed tradition of the Byzantine concept of iconography, and expresses his mentality and temperament through gesture-oriented and expressive writing and clear colours. While on his journey between the East and the West, he could constantly see merchant caravans loaded with goods, sometimes even forty animal-drawn vehicles. They used to stop for a while at the Trench, or at some of the inns along the Danube, to take a rest or to start bargaining. Mija's contour drawing is clear, firm and spacious, so that it can often compensate shadows, which are generally neglected, with its intensiveness. Some of the merchants used to stay at the Trench for months, taking with them their servants found somewhere in the wide world, on some road from Venice to the East, boys or girls, servants or a women-lovers. Miljković's themes are urban and relatively politicized, without much narrative. With this method of treatment of his drawing, he surpasses the initial impression of unilateral and plain style so that in the structure and facts, we can perceive the strata necessary to experience the totality. |
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