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[hardcover edition] MONOGRAPH BOOK of Snezana Petrovic From a Universal to an Individual Testimony written by Jasna Jovanov, Ph.D. Price: EUR 35.00 (US$ 41.00) shipping excluded |
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from the introductory text of Jasna Jovanov, Ph.D.
The big journey into the arts was the first one in a row that Snezana Petrovic set off onto a long time ago, and the fact that she loved to draw even as a child does not represent a general commonplace in her biography. The fact that she loved displaying her work at first only to her parents and later on as a primary school student in art shows, channels to what she has accomplished in her creativity to date. The competitive aspiration and the willingness to accept the public judgement, moreover to acquire a driving force for further work through the public appearance, certainly contributed to profiling her authorial style and determined the directions of her future progress. Nevertheless, her drawing skills held second place regarding her professional interests for some time until she made her final decision at the age of twenty one, a decision that, in those circumstances, could have been compared with the historical words of Nadezda Petrovic: „I want to become a painter!”. show more
…Snezana Petrovic would, from then on, express both of them in her work. She would express precedence to the freedom of imagination and ideas in the visual display but retain the adhesion to the rules, respecting the technological processes of making of a drawing, a print, a picture or a photograph. One more experience that had been of great importance, almost precedent, was the encounter with the old masters of painting, the experience of copying their drawings and, finally, the discovery of Rubens` paintings. In the works of Snezana Petrovic this discovery did not leave a direct visual trace in her early works, but it is certain that the attention of the future artist was drawn by much more than the Rubens` luxurious painting process: the kaleidoscope of mythological, literal, religious and allegoric themes, contrary to the realistic scenes from everyday life, history and nature – interwoven contrasts which would also find deep stronghold in her work. show less
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from the review of Tijana Palkovljevic Bugarski, M.A. The manuscript: Snezana Petrovic: From a Universal to an Individual Testimony by the author Jasna Jovanov, Ph.D., by its contents, professionalism and comprehensiveness presents a monographic study on the creatorship of artist Snezana Petrovic (1977). In Chapter One author Jasna Jovanov, Ph.D. presents and analyzes the developmental path of the artist, her paragons and professors in the formal process of education along with the non-formal paragons and influences which defined her creatorship from the time she finished her studies to her first exhibition at the “DA” Gallery in 2003. show more In Chapter Two called “Waiting” Jovanov analyzes the complex artistic scene at the turn of the 20th century and for the period of the first years of the 21st century with the intent of alluding to the specificity of the social-political and cultural occurrences of the times in which Snezana Petrovic’s maturation was taking place. Simultaneously, Snezana’s series of prints called “Waiting” is contextualized as a resistance of the young artist against the times and social events. Chapter Three bearing the name of “Unexplored World” is dedicated to Snezana Petrovic’s enthusiasm turning to artistic photography, her M.A. studies and the series of prints, drawings and paintings of “Unexplored World”. The author analyzes her paragons: Leonid Sejka, Borges, as well as the artistic craftsmanship Snezana accomplishes by using a novel printmaking technique she now opts for – mezzotint. “Parallel Dimension” is a Chapter dedicated to the works inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch along with the tentative stride into the world of social psychology and the criticism of the consumer society. By analyzing distinctive works of art, Jasna Jovanov implies to the layered symbolism and the artistic affluence of Snezana Petrovic’s works. Accentuating the paragons, parallels and domains of the creatorship, she precisely positions Snezana’s artistic opus. In the Chapter entitled “On Traps and Mechanisms” an affluent exposition of Snezana Petrovic’s work is presented both at home and abroad. Analyzing the work, Jovanov specifies: “The foreground of this series comprises freedom, both personal and artistic.” It is in this Chapter that the author analyzes Snezana Petrovic’s paintings individually, in great detail and with dedication in the terms of topics along with the artistic elements, hence this Chapter exemplifies the central Chapter for the discernment of the opulent and layered opus of Snezana Petrovic. The Chapter “The Myth of Pegasus” denotes to the presence of mythological topics and symbolism in Snezana’s artistic craftsmanship. At the very end Jovanov concludes that the myth of Pegasus adopted by Snezana Petrovic proffers a synthesis of the earlier units in her opuses “Unexplored World”, “Parallel Dimensions” and “On Traps and Mechanisms”. In the Chapter “On Drawing and Everything Else” Jasna Jovanov rounds up the analysis of Snezana Petrovic’s artistic craftsmanship and concludes: “Snezana Petrovic is directed towards examining the integrity and identity of an individual and has thereby ordained her artistic research to the unknown depths of the individual consciousness and to the visible and invisible mechanisms which actuate and hinder. Life, the struggle for the survival of ideas transformed into an inexhaustible energy of being, found their place firstly in the prints and drawings followed by paintings and objects gradually evolving into more and more complex narratives”. show less |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS SNEZANA PETROVIC is a Serbian painter and printmaker of the younger generation whose artworks belong to the art genre of figurative surrealism and fantastic art. She was born in 1977 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She graduated at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in 2004 in the class of Professor Milan Stanojev at the department of printmaking. In 2008 she obtained a Magister of Arts degree at the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in the class of Professor Radovan Jandric at the department of printmaking. In 2009 she enrollees for a Ph.D. study of printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. She participated in many solo and group exhibitions, both in Serbia and worldwide and won a several awards for her artworks, among them a special jury prize “Acqui Prize 2011” for print “View from the Other Angle” (2009), in the mezzotint technique, at the X International Biennial of Engraving in Acqui Terme, Italy. Currently works as an assistant professor of printmaking at the Academy of Classical Painting of the Educons University in Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.JASNA JOVANOV, Ph.D. in Art History, born in Novi Sad, Serbia, in a family who was living from the knowledge and culture; she kept living in a such surroundings, dealing with all aspects of researching, preserving and presenting of the cultural heritage and education of young people ready to continue the similar mission. She began her career first at the Matica Srpska Gallery, and later as a director of the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad and full professor of art history at the Educons University in Sremska Kamenica, Serbia. She is the author of many exhibitions, texts, screenplays and translations, among them the monographs of Stevan Aleksic, Danica Jovanovic, Nadezda Petrovic and Milan Konjovic, which was published in the USA in 2014. She won the awards of the ICOM National Committee for the Curator of the Year, Project of the Year and Publishing Venture of the Year. |
BOOK DETAILS category: art -- fine arts, artist monograph number of pages: 200 |
