Apstraktni likovni jezik Nade Pivac
Nada Pivac´s abstract language of painting

Summary/Abstract: Nada Pivac is one of our most significant artists who has profoundly influenced the Bosnia and Herzegovina´s art scene – as a painter and as a professor, firstly in Sarajevo, then in Široki Brijeg´s Academy of art. She is one of most responsible for the foundation of both Academies. The artistic style of Nada Pivac is distinctively heterogeneous, and it is impossible to analyse it in continuity since most of her works are in private collection, and her atelier in Sarajevo, in which were the paintings prepared for the retrospective exhibition, was robbed during the war. The paper focuses on this artist´s oeuvre during the seventies of19th century when she turned to abstract art expression – the subjects, landscapes and portraits are reduced to specific abstract forms. Thereby, her paintings represent a certain transcendence of a visible reality expressed through universal abstract language of painting. This paper will also try to redefine the value of Nada Pivac´s unfortunately neglected oeuvre.

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