Sava Sekulić (1902 - 1989)
Sava Sekulić
Sava Sekulić was a Serbian Naïve and Outsider art painter.
Sekulić is a painter of the universal, the timeless, and the limitless. For him, everything is generalized, from the individual he aspires to the universal, and is very successful. Therefore, his works are the highest achievements of L'art brut, not only in the country but worldwide. Allegories and metaphors are present in nearly all his works. With his visions, he reduced a unique pictorial definition, minimized the subject matter to a metaphor. Most numerous are his compositions with human figures, portraits and scenes with historical and beings. While painting historical personalities, he portrayed the victims as heroes, and the members of his family as mythological beings. However, the most complex is the figure of a woman.
| Date and place of birt: | 17 february 1902, Obrovac, Croatia |
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| Date and place of death: | 26 january 1989, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Nationality: | Serbia, Croatia |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Painter |
| Art style: | Primitivism, Folk Art, Naïve art |
