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Milena Pavlović Barilli, Serbia’s Renaissance Woman

Aug 17th, 2009 | By De-Construct.net | In Weekend

Milena Pavlovic Barilli Autoportrait
Milena Pavlović Barilli Autoportrait

Evening Dress, by Milena Pavlovic Barilli
Evening Dress, by Milena Pavlović Barilli

Portrait of Milena Pavlovic Barilli's mother, Danica Popovic
Milena’s portrait of her mother, Danica Pavlović

100 Years Since the Birth of Serbia’s Khalo

On the occasion of 100-years anniversary since the birth of Serbian renaissance woman Milena Pavlović Barilli, Serbian Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (SANU), Milena Pavlović Barilli Foundation and Belgrade Museum of Modern Art, launched a wonderful website gallery, filled with hundreds of her paintings, sketches, studies and illustrations.

Painter, illustrator, poet, photographer, costume and fashion designer, Milena Pavlović Barilli was born in Serbian town Požarevac in 1909, as the only child of the aristocrat Danica Pavlović, a Karadjordjević descendant, and Italian composer Bruno Barilli. She was educated at the Royal Art Academy in Belgrade and later attended the Munich Academy of Arts. In 1939 she went to New York, where she lived until her sudden, premature passing in 1945.

Her poetic paintings, weaved with a whiff of surrealism and melodious modernism have the crispness, clarity, simplicity and contemporary apeal of vector art, while preserving the unique warmth of hand-painted artwork.

The new website gallery displaying Milena’s work also contains a number of famous magazine covers she illustrated in 1920s and 1930s, such as Vogue, Life and Red Book, as well as her illustrations for the haute couture clothing, shoes and perfumes.

An ongoing retrospective exhibition of Milena Pavlović Barilli’s artwork at SANU Gallery, titled “Dream of awakening” (17 July to 24 August), has thus far been seen by more than 61,000 visitors.

Milena, Website Gallery »


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