Name Draginja Vlasic | Died Zemun, Serbia | |
Draginja Vlasić (Serbian: Драгиња Влашић, January 1928 in Vojka – 20 October 2011 in Zemun) is a Serbian painter.
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Biography
Vlašić was born in the village Vojka in Srem, the southern part of Vojvodina. Primary school attended in Vojka and Stara Pazova, the city near by her birthplace. She graduated High school in Zemun. In a year 1952 she starts studies of mathematics at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Belgrade, and at the same time The Academy of Fine Arts. She quits the studies of Mathematics and graduates Academy of Fine Arts 1954. in the class of Zora Petrovic and master's degree at same professor in 1956.
Short time, after studies she works as Art professor in high school, but recently she quits steady job and dedicates completely to her artistic work. Last three decades of her life, due to severe illness, she lived far from publicity in her atelier at City of Zemun where, in spite if illness she works almost to the very end of her life. She died at the City of Zemun.
Painting
Thematic of her paintings is mostly, and in the best strength expressed in her compositions with acts, usually of large size, reaching even dimensions larger than 3 X 3 meters. They are followed by less portraits, and, very rarely presenting landscapes and other themes presented in smaller sizes. In her huge compositions there are not details or precise painting. On a contrary. They seem like huge colored krokies in which the very stroke is adequate to a picture dimension. Her strokes are broad and free, mark the shapes just slightly, so the painting exists only in color values and in a strong suggestion of movement. The symbolist vision is strongly confirmed in over dimensioned paintings, where tendencies of senses offers to observer lot of different approaches to the meanings. She was a member of "ULUS" and "LADA"