Dimitrije Popović
Dimitrije Popović (Димитрије Поповић; born 4 March 1951) is an eminent Montenegrin and Croatian painter, sculptor, art critic and philosopher born in Cetinje, Montenegro. He attended elementary and high school in his hometown and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1976 in the class of professor Šime Perić. Popović's works (drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures) evolved thematically and technically through different phases, mostly inspired by Leonardo's drawings, surrealism, Ivan Meštrović's sculptures etc.
Also recorded as Dimitrije "Mita" Popović
Dimitrije Popović
- Born
- 1951 · Cetinje.
- Nationality
- Montenegro
- Occupation
- painter · writer · sculptor · graphic artist
- Fields
- painting · graphics · literature
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and University of Zagreb
- Languages
- Croatian · Serbian
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Written works
• Veronikin rubac, published in 1996 by Matica hrvatska • Smrt u slikarstvu, published in 2001 by Matica hrvatska • Priče iz Arkadije, published in 2005 by Ex libris
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Documentary films about Dimitrije Popović
• Dimitrije Popović; author: Olga Perović, RTV Titograd 1981. • Dimitrije Popović; author: Elsa de Giorgi, Teleroma 56, Rome, 1985. • Dimitrije Popović; author: Miroslav Mahečić, HTV (Croatian Television), Zagreb 1987. • Requiem; author: Silvije Hum, HTV (Croatian Television), Zagreb 1991. • Dimitrije Popović; author: Eduard Galić, HTV (Croatian Television), Zagreb 1992. • Dimitrije Popović; author: Bogdan Žižić, HTV (Croatian Television), Zagreb 1992. • Dimitrije Popović; author: Eduard Galić, HTV (Croatian Television), Zagreb 1995.
Museums and collections holding Popović’s works
The artist lives and works in Croatia, but he made first public appearance in Cetinje in 1969 at the Art Salon of Youth. During the 1970s he exhibited in Podgorica, Bari (Italy), Dubrovnik and Zagreb. During his residence in Paris in 1974 Popović met French art collector M. In 1978 Davrier exhibited Popović's works at the Alexander Braumüller gallery with the paintings of Salvador Dalí, Ernst Fuchs, Leonor Fini, Mati Klarwein, Victor Brauner, and Miodrag Djuric - Dado, another distinguished artist from Montenegro. The Liberty Gallery and Universal Fine Arts of Washington prepared in 1982 a combined exhibition of prints and other graphic works of Dalí and Popović in Pforzheim. During the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1982), Dimitrije Popović exhibited in Palazzo Sormani in Milan a cycle of drawings entitled “Omaggio a Leonardo”. His crucifixions entitled "Corpus mysticum" were exhibited in Rome in Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Santa Maria del Popolo, and the Pantheon on the occasion of the celebration of two thousand years of Christianity. Croatian art critic Tonko Maroević wrote: “Popović’s achievement in his interpretation of the Biblical motif is first and foremost to be found in the universality of meaning, the transfer of temporally and spatially limited event into the general idiom of visual signs of the body. Popović had about 60 solo exhibitions and participated in over 150 group exhibitions and art manifestations of other kind. He also published several books and wrote for Slobodna Dalmacija, Vjesnik, Večernji list, and Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti.
• Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti (Museum of the Contemporary Art); Narodni muzej (National Museum); Univerzitetska biblioteka Svetozar Marković (Belgrade University Library) • Brussels: Royal Library of Belgium • Cetinje: Umjetnički muzej Crne Gore (Art Museum of Montenegro) • Düsseldorf: Heine-Museum • Dubrovnik: Umjetnička zbirka samostana “Mala braća” (Art collection of the convent “Little Brothers») • Đakovo: Spomen zbirka “Josip Juraj Strossmayer” (Memorial collection “Josip Juraj Strossmayer”) • Milan: Palazzo Sarmani • Paris: Collection Davrier • Padua: Museo civico • Pau: Musee des Beaux Arts • Petrinja: Muzej “Krsto Hegedušić” (Krsto Hegedusic Museum) • Podgorica: Centar savremene umjetnosti (Contemporary Art Center); Moderna Galerija (Modern Art Gallery); Galerija Most (Gallery “The Bridge”) • Rijeka: Moderna Galerija (Modern Gallery) • Rome: Studio S – arte contemporanea • Ravenna: Centro Dantesco • Spoleto: Palazzo Comunale • Savona: Museo d’arte Sandro Pertini • Tuzla: Galerija jugoslovenskog portreta • Vukovar: Muzej Vukovara (Civic Museum of Vukovar) • Vatican City: Vatican Museums • Zagreb: Zbirka nacionalne biblioteke (Collection of the National Library); Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences); Metropolitana • Zbirka Biškupić (Biškupić Collection) • Washington: Library of Congress
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