Black and white aquarelles of postmodern era

Maja Milovanovic / painter

We are presenting you the work in a progress of a project “THE MYTH OF THE CONSTRUCTOR”. It is based on the re-articulation and the revival of Luka Popovic’s intimate moments and their correlation with historical visual patterns. The whole project is based on the diary which was written by Popovic, dated from March 1941 til November 1942, as well as his photographs (dated in 1952-1980). Luka Popovic was born in 1926. and died in 2006. Luka worked as a civil engineeron the construction of numerous significant buildings, and infrastructure on the territory of Yugoslavia and beyond. His writing and photos were accidentally found and saved from destruction. He wrote and took photographs, as he says “as a hobby and with love” (quote from the genealogy of the Popovic family). The works represent an interpretation, in fact, the reproduction of specific contents from Luka Popovic’s diary and photos, and his intimate perception through two of his life stages (adolescence and adulthood), in relation to the two key historical periods (the beginning of WWII and the golden age of the revival and the development of the socialist system), significant in the context of social, national and ideological identity. 

Maja Milovanovic was born on May 1st 1977, is currently living and working in Belgrade as Visual artist and Professor of Art Drawing and painting in School of design (Secondary school- college). 

If you like you can visit here web page and see more of her work:

Maja Milovanovic – artists profile