Kossa Bokchan was a Serbian painter who lived in Paris

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Biography

With three years with his parents moved to Belgrade. Painting has begun to study during the Second World War by Mladen Josić, and 1944th in the studio of Zora Petrović. Next year she entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in a class of Ivan Tabaković

Ivan Tabakovic

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. With several students from this class, Petar Omčikus (her future husband), Mića Popović

Mica Popovic

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, Bata Mihailović, Vera Božičković, Ljubinka Jovanović, Mileta Andrejević, 1947th she went to Zadar

Zadar

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 where they created the firstYugoslav postwar art communes – ‘Zadarska grupa’ ('Zadars group'). She has first exhibition in 1950th in Belgrade, and solo exhibition 1952nd. In that year with Petar Omčikus she went to Paris

Paris

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, which is definitely settled with a permanent summer trips to Vela Luka

Vela Luka

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 on Korčula

Korcula

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 since the beginning of the sixties. In Paris her first exhibition was in 1954th. He has exhibited in Lille

Lille

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, Paris

Paris

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, Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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, Rome

Rome

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, Nancy, Novi Sad

Novi Sad

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, Niš

Niš

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, Zagreb

Zagreb

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, Skopje

Skopje

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, Titograd. She had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in 2001st.

Art

Kossa Bokchan has gone through several painting stages. Although short-lived episode of delay showed a desire to paint outside the dogma of socialist realism by choosing themes landscapes and portraits, as opposed to work at the Academy when she painted arranged 'still life' and 'skeletons'. Stylistically, it belonged to the expressive realism. In the very first exhibitions in Belgrade shows clearly a departure from the aesthetics of socialist realism, a move to Paris is definitely directed towards contemporary art trends, especially to a geometric and lyrical abstraction, and gradually approaching and informel. After the 1961st year she is returning to realism in a specific way which is characteristic of 'The Paris School' - a named abstract naturalism (Michel Ragon). Finally, it is, the visual stimulus of the Byzantine tradition, turns the mythical symbolic form of her art provides a definitive artistic expression.

Awards

• 1968 Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris
  Paris
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• 2000 Special Award on VI International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac
  Gornji Milanovac
  Gornji Milanovac is a town and municipality located in Serbia at 44.012691° North, 20.273572° East. Its name means "Upper Milanovac" while Milanovac stems from name "Milan" in the Serbian language. The population of town is 24,048.The city was founded in 1853...
  
  

Sources

• Documentation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
• Kosara Bokšan, a retrospective exhibition catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2001