Kultura / culture
U Loznici se svakog juna organizuju Mićini i Verini dani The Days of Mića and Vera event is organised in Loznica every June
ratna umetnička komuna u Jugoslaviji. Nadahnule su ih plava pučina i mediteranska vegetacija, ali su na- dahnuli i jedni druge kroz međusobno portretisanje. Međutim, njihov beg iz akademskog sveta iza- zvao je pravi skandal u Beogradu. Svi su izbačeni sa Akademije. „Samo zato što smo otišli u Zadar i ta- mo slikali, bili smo ispitivani i sumnjivi“, svedočila je Božičković o strogim pravilima tog doba. Na intervenciju važnih ljudi iz političkog vrha svi su vraćeni na fakultet osim Popovića. Za njega je čak
roundings. They travelled to Dalmatia, to Zadar, where the Zadar Group, the first art commune in post-war Yu- goslavia, was created. They drew inspiration from the blue sea, the Mediterranean vegetation, but also from each other, through mutual portraiture. However, their flight from the academic world caused a real scandal to erupt in Belgrade. They were all expelled from the Academy. “Just because we went to Zadar and painted there, we were interrogated and deemed suspicious,” said Božičković, testifying to the strict rules of that era. The intervention of important
jedan od profesora sarkastično re- kao da „sve zna, pa mu škola nije ni potrebna“. Da li je izbacivanje sa Akademije Mići pomoglo ili odmo- glo da postane veliki, nikada ne- ćemo saznati. Međutim, njemu je naneta još veća nepravda – ukinu- ti su mu i bonovi za snabdevanje, pomoću kojih se tada preživljava- lo, pa je kazna daleko prevazišla te- žinu „greha“. Popović se nadalje sam ško-
members of the political elite led to them all being readmitted to the faculty, with the exception of Popo- vić. One of the professors even said about him sarcastically: “he knows everything, so he doesn’t need school”. We’ll never know wheth- er being kicked out of the Academy helped or hindered Mića in becom- ing “great”. However, he was sub- jected to an even greater injustice when his ration vouchers were also revoked, which were then a way to survive, so the punishment far out- weighed the graveness of the “sin”. Popović went on to educate him-
lovao, vraćajući se delima starih majstora, izloženim u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu, a tada Muze- ju kneza Pavla. U umetničkom ra- stu pomagao mu je i profesor Ta- baković, dok je vetar u leđa dobio sticanjem stipendije za rezidencijalni boravak u Pari- zu 1948. godine. Popović je voleo i da putuje, pa je sa ženom, i ka- snije i sinom Jovanom, obišao Mediteran, Kinu, Taj- land, Indiju, Iran, a godinu dana je lutao i po Americi. Putovao je on i kroz slikarske pravce – od utabanih staza građanskog realizma, preko bespuća apstrak- cije i enformela, sve do figuracije, koja je u njegovom slučaju bila politički angažovana. Nepravdu koju je
self, returning to the works of the old masters that were exhibited at the National Museum in Belgrade, and then at Prince Pavle Museum. He was assisted in his artistic development by Professor Tabaković, while he also re- ceived a tailwind in the form of a scholarship for a res- idency in Paris in 1948. Popović also loved to travel, so he travelled with his wife, and later also with his son Jovan, touring the Med- iterranean, China, Thailand, India and Iran, as well as
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