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Biography
Miroslav Živković (Мирослав Живковић) was born in Gornje Krnjino in a village near Pirot in 1934. He died on February, 18, 2009 in Pirot. He is considered to be one of the authentic Serbian naive art painter.
Biography
Živković was born in Gornje Krnjino in a village near [Pirot] in 1934. He resides in Pirot, where he lived, worked and, finally, died on February, 18, 2009 in Pirot. He began painting in 1955. The favorite source and place of his artistic inspiration was mountain Stara planina, near Pirot, the town where he lived. Setting on his favorite mountain, he combined inner scenes and images and fantasy with pictorial mountain meadows, glades and forest.
Artistic Style
Živković possessed a refined sense for colour shades and stresses, for space and harmonious mass distribution, which he combined with a unique painting style that produces surfaces of interesting effect and structure. He thus creates paintings of a significant and powerful poetic expression inspired by mountainous environment, and life, customs and folklore colours of his native village, transforming them into his personal myth hereby translated into the painting structure.
Exhibitions
The greatest collection of his paintings is at Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (MNMA), Jagodina, Serbia.
Literature
- M. Bošković; M. Maširević, Samouki likovni umetnici u Srbiji, Torino, 1977
- Ото Бихаљи-Мерин; Небојша Бато Томашевић, Енциклопедија наивне уметности света, Београд, 1984
- Љ. Којић, Завичајни хроничари - Мирослав Живковић, у: Наивна уметност Србије, САНУ, МНМУ, Јагодина, 2003; 128
- N. Krstić, Naivna umetnost u Srbiji, SANU, MNMU, Jagodina, 2003
- Lj. Kojić, Мирослав Живковић у збирци МНМУ, МНМУ, Јагодина, 2009
- N. Krstić, Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia, MNMU, Jagodina, 2007
- N. Krstić, Miroslav Živković, MNMU, Jagodina, 2009.