Sava Sekulić
| Sava Sekulić Сава Секулић | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
11 May 1902 Blišine, (now Croatia) |
| Died |
26 January 1989 (aged 86) Belgrade, Serbia) |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Occupation | Painter |
Sava Sekulić(Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Секулић ;born by Obrovac, Croatia, May 11, 1902-Belgrade, January 26, 1989) was a Serbo-Croatian Naïve painter.
Life
Sava Sekulić was raised by his uncle and his aunt. Her mother remarried when his father died when he was 10 years old. The painter used to quote his father's last words: “ Learn by yourself, draw and write with a stone in your hand”, During World War I, he was harmed and lost one eye when he was 15 years old.[1] He started writing poems when he was 22 and painting in 1932, but he did not dedicate himself to painture exclusively until his retirement in 1962.
He started with paintings of his birth region in a realistic style, and he changed later for naive art. He made exhibitions in several cities:Belgrade, Zagreb, Munich, Aranđelovac, Paris, Cologne, Jagodina.[2]
References
External links
- Sava Sekulić - Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (MNMA), Jagodina, Serbia
- rawvision.com - Article in Raw Vision International Art Magazine