Milena Pavlović-Barili
Milena Pavlović-Barili (alt. Barilli; Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Павловић-Барили; November 5, 1909, Požarevac, Serbia – March 6, 1945, New York City, New York, United States of America) was a Serbian painter and poet. She is the most notable female artist of Serbian modernism.[1]
Her Italian father Bruno Barilli was an influential composer, her Serbian mother Danica Pavlovic, a descendant of the Karađorđević dynasty, studied art. Milena herself studied at the Royal school of arts in Belgrade, Serbia (1922–1926) and in Munich (1926–1928).
In the early 1930s she left Serbia and returned only for brief visits until the outbreak of World War II. During her stays in Spain, Rome, Paris and London, where she socialised with Jean Cocteau and André Breton, she was influenced by many western schools and artists, notably Giorgio de Chirico. After 1939 she stayed in New York only, where she died after a horse riding accident in 1945.
The topics of her work varied from portraits to imaginative interpretations of biblical stories. The motifs often included dream-like situations, veils, angels, statues of Venus goddess, and Harlequins. Many of her works are parts of permanent exhibitions in Rome, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), and her hometown of Požarevac, where the house in which she was born has been converted into a museum in her honor.[2]
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Milena Pavlović-Barili 1977 YU 1713 stamp.jpg
Self-portrait, 1938
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Milena Pavlović-Barili 2009 Serbian stamp.jpg
Self-portrait, 1939
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Milena Pavlović-Barili 1993 YU 2604 stamp.jpg
Act with mirror
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Milena Pavlović-Barili Hot Pink with Cool Grey.jpg
Hot Pink with Cool Grey, 1940
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