Pavle Vasić the Painter

Authors

  • Mirjana Gligorijević Maksimović independent researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2024.56.184.9

Keywords:

Pavle Vasić, painter, scholar, professor, critic, portrait, watercolor, color, poetic realism

Abstract

Pavle Vasić was an extraordinarily complex person with diverse interests, working in different yet related branches of art. Having acquired a broad education, he was a painter, scholar, professor, and art critic. He painted over 250 oils on canvas, thousands of drawings and watercolours, around thirty prints, costume designs, illustrations, and even a few murals. He authored around thirty books, over 3,000 studies, papers, and exhibition reviews. Painting, however, was always his greatest passion. He loved to draw even as a child and, from 1922 to 1924, he studied painting at the Art School in Belgrade, learning from Beta Vukanović, Petar Dobrović, and Ilija Šobajić. He was often inspired by the literary works he read (both novels and epic poetry), as well as scenes from everyday life at school and on the streets, which, besides their artistic merit, now also hold documentary value.

References

Vasić, Vera, Bibliografija Pavla Vasića, Biblioteka Bibliografije, Beograd Alma 2023.

Vasić, Pavle, „Branko Šotra“, Umetnička galerija BiH, Sarajevo 1991.

Vasić, Pavle, „Zapisi o Jovanu Bijeliću“, Doba umetnosti, Studije i članci, Valjevo 1990, 238.

Vasić, Pavle, Uniforme srpske vojske 1808–1919, Prosveta, Beograd 1981.

Pavle Vasić – svedok epohe, katalog izložbe: Ljubica Miljković, Beograd 1993.

Published

2025-03-28

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How to Cite

Pavle Vasić the Painter. (2025). Literary History — Journal of Literary Studies, 56(184), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2024.56.184.9