RADOVANOVIĆ Pavle · Paja
RADOVANOVIĆ Pavle · Paja
Sculptor
(Zrenjanin, 1923 – Novi Sad, 1981)
Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade in 1957 (Sculpture Dept., Class of Prof. Sreten Stojanović), and completed postgraduate master's studies there with the same mentor. From 1962, until his death, he lived in Novi Sad as an independent artist. He left behind him more than 600 sculptures and paintings. Participated in a large number of group exhibitions in the country and abroad. One-man exhibition: Novi Sad, 1982 (In memoriam).
"He had talent and affinity for sizeable commemorative monuments, blending ethics and esthetics, power and monumentality. In the period from 1952 to 1981, he created many successful compositions from the remote and recent past and park sculptures on the subject of people's fighting and suffering during World War II, in which he had also taken part and been a witness of. Convincingly and with easiness, he used to build large compositions of public monuments (…) With his colleagues (Denković, Gikić, Bodulić, Marinkov), he established the May Group in 1975, with an intention to place appropriate sculptures on the quay, in parks, and on squares." (Vera Jovanović)
Miroslav Antic, bust in bronze, 1975
| The story about the Fortress is always and inevitably a story about people. A story about man. A story about Paja Pavle Radovanović? Why not! Although the story is endless and rough like the Danube that flows under the Fortress... Thus, it is known that Radovanović used to try and had success in presenting features of the Pannonian man, and, using local materials, in creating signs and shapes harmonized with this prevailingly lowland region. It is also known, and Vera Jovanović is the best witness thereof, that as a pupil of Radivoje-Lala Subotički, Sreten Stojanović and Ilija Kolarović, he acquired their postulates: the figural approach to sculpture, as man has been the main motif throughout ages and most of attention should be given to human figure and portrait.He tried to provide to his plastic shapes a firm, stable structure, recognizable form, in accordance with action, movement, posture and psychological moment, modeled in a manner that follows and unifies these elements. He had a vision: Fruška Gora as a unique entity in all historical ages. |
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