Milorad Bata Mihailović

Milorad Bata Mihailović (French: Bata Mihailovitch; Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Бата Михаиловић); 8 February 1923 – April 23, 2011) was a Serbian painter and member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade.

Milorad Bata Mihailović
Born	February 8, 1923 Pančevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	April 23, 2011 Paris, France
Nationality	Serbian
Field	Painter

Biography

Mihailović was born in Pančevo. He finished elementary school. Father Peter it was while he was in the army, he enrolled at the Law Faculty in Belgrade, who had gone, he says, only one - to be printed. At the Fine Arts Academy in 1946. was admitted immediately to the second semester in the class of Ivan Tabaković. By going to Zadar 1947 where the group left the Zadar arises from the Academy of the 1947, then founded the band with which the eleven exhibits do 1951. To Paris he went with his wife Ljubinka Jovanović, 1952, where he lives and works occasionally returning to Belgrade.

Since 1947. when he first exhibited in Belgrade, he had a hundred group exhibitions in all continents. His first solo exhibition arranged in 1951. in Belgrade and a retrospective at Art Gallery 'Cvijeta Zuzorić' in 1981.

He was elected member in 1985 of SANU, in The Department of Fine Arts and Music. He died in Paris.

Paintings

Mihailović started painting in the spirit of realism and traditionalism, and shortly thereafter found the language of expressionism, which are later changed in a few style poetics. If he came to the border abstraction, Mihailović had never crossed that the Rubicon of art. Before he was a follower of intense coloristic painting that had a long tradition in Serbian modernism. His artistic gesture is violent, euphoric, fast, explosive, whirling, without any contemplation during operation. His expressive forms are distorted, barely recognizable, bathed in a rich chromatic range. It is often noted in his work distinctive ornaments and details of the Serbian medieval fresco painting.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1953. Galerie Marseille, Paris, Galerie Paul Moihien, Paris
• 1957. Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
• 1958. Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
• 1958. Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
• 1959. Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
• 1961. Galerie Ariel, Paris
• 1962. Galeria Nova Spectra, Hague
• 1963. Galerie 'Le Zodiaque' - Galerie Gérard Moneyn, Brisel, Galerie Ariel, Paris
• 1964. Galerie Birch, Copenhagen
• 1965. Салон Музеја савремене уметности, Београд
• 1966. Galerie Ariel, Paris, Tama Gallery, London
• 1967, Galerie Nord, Lille
• 1968. Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
• 1969. Galeria Haaken, Oslo
• 1970. Galerie Ariel, Paris, Galerie Nord, Lille
• 1974. Galerie Ariel, Paris
• 1975. Galeria Eklunds, Umeå (Sweden)
• 1976. Galerie Médicis, Ostend (Belgium), Kunsthandel M. L., De Boer, Amsterdam, Galeria Galax, Gothenburg
• 1978. Galerie Nadar, Casablanca
• 1980. Galerie Erval, Paris, Galerie Ariel, Paris
• 1981. Уметнички павиљон 'Цвијета Зузорић, (ретроспективна изложба), Београд, Galeria JMC, Oslo
• 1983. Galerie Nadar, Casablanca
• 1985. Galerie Ariel, Paris, Galerie Noriot, Apac
• 1986. Galerie Syn'art, Paris, Galerie Fouché-Saillenfest, Le Havre
• 1987. Mairie de Neuilly-sur-Seine, Galerie Fouché-Saillenfest, Le Havre
• 1988. Galerie Ariel, Paris, Галерија 'Астрапас', Niš

Bibliography (selection)

• P. Discargues, Souleurs Bata Mihailovitch, Les lettres françaises, Paris, 16-23 April 1953
• R. Vrinat, Mihailović, Actualité artistique 58, Paris, 14 November 1953
• Y.H., Louise Nevelson, Pierre Omcikous, Batta Mihailovitch, Aujourd'hui 20, Paris, 1958
• R.-J. Moulin, Mihailovitch et Bogart, Les lettres françaises, Paris, June 1959
• G. Boudaille, M. B. Mihailovitch, Les lettres françaises, Paris, 7-13 December 1961
• J.-J. Lévêque, Un panorama de la peinture moderne révéle, L'information, Paris, 16 December 1961
• J.-J. Lévêque, Mihailovitch, La Nouvelle Revue Française, Paris, April 1962
• J.-J. Lévêque, Mihailovitch Lyrisme, Arts, Paris, June 1963
• R.-J. Moulin, (pref), Galerie Argos, Nantes, 1964
• J. Rollas, (pref), Galerie Ariel, Paris, 1964
• J.J. Lévêque, Mihailovitch, Cimaise, Paris, 1965
• J.J. Lévêque, Mihailovitch, Cimaise, Paris, June 1966
• M.Wykes-Joyce, (pref), Tama Gallery, London, 1966
• C.B., Mihailovitch à la Galerie Nord, Lille, 1967
• G. Boudaille, Mihailovitch, Presentazione, (pref), Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, Rome, 1968
• R.-J. Moulin, Du geste de Mihailovitch aux signes de Lybinka, Opus international, No 64, Paris, June 1974
• J. Pollac, (pref), Peintures récentes de Mihailovitch, Galerie Ariel, Paris, 1974
• G. Bougaille, Milorad Bata Mihailovitch, (pref), Kunsthandel M. L. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1976
• P. Cabanne, Mihailovitch, Le Matin, Paris, November, 1980
• R.-J. Moulin, Un grand peintre Yougoslave, Dans le tremblement du mond, L'Humanité, Paris, 4 December 1980
• F. Priston, (pref), Mihailovitch, Artmosphère IV, Hôtel de Ville, Neuilly sur Seine, 1987
• Ch. Simić, Notes sur la peinture de Bata Mihailovith, (pref), Galerie Ariel, Paris, 1988

Sources

• Documentation Museum of contemporary art, Belgrade
• P. Cabanne, Bata Mihailovitch, Dictionnaire international de la peinture IV, Paris, 1975
• Mihailovitch Milorad Bata, Dictionnaire universel de la peinture IV, Paris, 1975
• Milorad Bata Mihailović, SANU, Belgrade, 2005 ISBN 86-7025-382-8

Persondata
Name	Mihailovic, Milorad Bata
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1923
Place of birth	Pančevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	2011
Place of death	Paris, France