Ljubica Sokić

Painting, Visual Artist

1914 – 2009

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Who was Ljubica Sokić?

Ljubica Cuca Sokić was a Serbian painter. She was born in Bitola.

She attended the high school in Belgrade, where Zora Petrović was her professor. She was also taught painting by Beta Vukanović, Ljuba Ivanović and Ivan Radović. Ljubica Sokić worked and presented her works in galleries in Paris, in the time between 1936 and 1939. Having returned from Paris to Belgrade, she presented her works independently for the first time in 1939 in Belgrade pavilion ″Cvijeta Zuzorić". She was one of the founders of the art group "Desetorica". She was a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade between 1948 and 1972. In 1968 she became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 1978 Academician. Besides painting, she created illustrations for children's books and magazines. She also worked in cinematography.

Her paintings are described as intimistic. At first she painted still life, landscapes, figures and portraits. Later she was moving towards simplifying forms, geometry and moderate abstraction. At times she used collage and experimental materials techniques.

She died on 8 January 2009 in Belgrade and was buried on 13 January at that city's Novo Groblje cemetery.

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Born
Dec 9, 1914
Bitola
Died
Jan 9, 2009

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on July 23, 2013

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