ПИКТУРАЛНА ПОЕТИКА
PICTURESQUE POETICS

Paintings by Nadežda Petrović in the collection Boje u vatri by Dragan Lakićević

Summary/Abstract: Starting from Horace's principle ut pictura poesis (lat. let poetry be like a painting), which is based on the idea that poetry should use descriptive techniques, whereby the poetic process takes on the features of painting techniques, this paper analyzes the artistic elements in the collection Boje u vatri: mali katalog slika bz Dragan Lakićević, who is motivated by the colors on Nadežda Petrović's paintings. The poet uses colors (of Nadeždae Petrović) as the most expressive means or the most obvious aesthetic impression in order to present to the reader, in synesthetic unity, a remarkable world of a painter of distinctive artistic expression and poetics. In other words, color is the very entity that the poet used as a key to understanding the painting of N. Petrović, which, like any other, expresses a certain philosophy about the world, its time and itself. Lakićević’s landscape is not a frozen image of a landscape, but the vibrating energy of a painted landscape, where in the synesthetic interweaving of colors, images and tones, through realized flaming images, it is shown that the movement of the body through physical time and space is not the only, much less true, movement, but it is the movement of spirit through timeless and boundless space. Accordingly, the “Small catalog of Nadežda Petrović’s paintings”, as the collection is more closely defined by the subtitle, does not imply a static observation (experience) of images through verses, but rather a dynamic movement through the “picture space” – Nadežda Petrović’s life and spiritual verticals.

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