Ljubinka Jovanović (; ; 6 October 1922 in Beograd – 3 August 2015) was a Serbian painter who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade. She was strongly influenced by the iconic traditions of the Serbian medieval art and inspired by the Serbo-Byzantine style of painting, developed in a modern style with specific signs on her chromatic paintings.
Biography Ljubinka Jovanović was studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Professor Ivan Tabaković. With her future husband, Milorad Bata Mihailović, and his friends from the class Mića Popović, Petar Omčikus, Kossa Bokchan and Vera Božičković Popović, in 1947 she went to Adriatic Coast where they formed an art commune “Zadar group”. She was also a member of the groups "Eleven" and "Lada".
Starting in 1951, Ljubinka Jovanović had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, including Belgrade, Paris, New York, Rouen, Bilbao, Čačak, Nikšić, and Budva. With Bata Mihailović she moved to Paris in 1952, and worked between Belgrade and Paris for several decades. She died in Paris, France, on 3 August 2015.
Art Like most members of the postwar generation of Serbian painters, Ljubinka Jovanović went through several phases, but compared to others hers were less dramatic in terms of stylistic changes. Basically, she always relied on the power of color in the painting and paid less attention to form. In her paintings, after the neo-abstract period, by the end of the 1960s, the shape had a close and direct origin in the asceticism of medieval Serbian fresco and icon painting. Based on such visuality, she created one of the most recognizable works in Serbian contemporary art of the late 20th century.
Solo exhibition (selection) 1952 Galerija ULUS, Belgrade 1953 Galerie Marseille, Paris 1964 Galerie Ariel, Paris 1965 Galerie Peintres du Monde, Paris, Long Island University, New York City 1967 Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade 1976 Galerie de la ville, Rouen 1977 Galerie Aritza, Bilbao 1977 Galerie Toroves, Santiago, Galerie Rive gauche, Paris 1980 Arcus, Paris 1981 Moderna galerija, Budva 1990 Umetnički paviljon „Cvijeta Zuzorić“, Belgrade (retrospective) 1992 Savremena galerija Centra za kulturu, Pančevo 1995 Galerija “Nadežda Petrović”, Čačak 1996 Galerija „Nikola I“, Centar za kulturu, Nikšić 1998 Galerija Haos, Belgrade 2000 Galerija Rajka Mamuzića, Novi Sad 2002 Galerija Centra za kulturu, Despotovac 2003 Moderna galerija, Budva 2006 Galerija RTS, Belgrade 2010 Serbian Cultural Center, Paris (retrospective)
Bibliography (selection) 1962 Georges Boudaille, Le Salon de Mai: Le goût de notre temps, Lettres françaises, du 10 au 16 mai, Paris 1964 Jean-Jacaues Lévêque, Les merveillex univers de Lybinka, Galerie Ariel, Lettres françaises, février, Paris 1964 Raoul-Jean Moulin, Lybinka, Cimaise, No 67, p.78, Paris 1964 Jean-Jacaues Lévêque, Lybinka - Galerie Ariel, Arts, mars, Paris 1964 Jean-Jacaues Lévêque, Lybinka - Galerie Ariel, La Galerie des arts, 15 avril, p. 33, Paris 1965 Georges Boudaille, (pref), Galerie Peintres du Monde, Paris 1965 Raoul-Jean Moulin, (pref), Catalogue de l'exposition personelle à la Galerie Peintres du Monde, novembre, Paris 1965 Georges Boudaille, Fascination du réel, Les Arts, 11 novembre, Paris 1965 Jean-Jacaues Lévêque, L'artiste est-il un piège à images? Arts, du 10 au 16 novembre, Paris 1965 Jean-Jacaues Lévêque, Icônes modernes, Arts, 11 novembre, Paris 1965. Raoul-Jean Moulin, (pref), Trois peintres de Paris: Lybinka, Bitran, Mihailovitch, Umeo, (La Suède) 1965 Jeanne Rollin, Nature et paysages, Humanité, 26 novembre, Paris 1966 Jannine Lipsi, Lybinka, Beaux-Arts, 20 janvier, Paris
Sources
Documentation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Ljubinka Jovanović, monograph, Karić Foundation, Belgrade, 2002 http://www.ccserbie.com/lybinka.pdf
External links Gallery RTS - Ljubinka Jovanović-Mihailović Umrla LJubinka Jovanović Mihailović