Novo Mesto is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered the economic and cultural centre of the historical Lower Carniola region.
Events from the year 1963 in art.
Slobodan "Braco" Dimitrijević is a Bosnian conceptual artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it. He lives and works in Paris, France.
Milena Pavlović-Barili was a Serbian painter and poet. She is the most notable female artist of Serbian modernism.
Đorđe Prudnikov was a Russians–Serbian painter, graphic artist, and designer.
Classical Realism is an artistic movement in the late-20th and early 21st century in which drawing and painting place a high value upon skill and beauty, combining elements of 19th-century neoclassicism and realism.
Milet Andrejević was a Yugoslav-born American painter in the realist tradition. A classically trained artist who went through a series of different artistic periods, including post-Impressionism, Expressionism, and Pop Art, Andrejević was best known for his allegorical landscapes set in New York City's Central Park.
Bikash Bhattacharjee was an Indian painter from Kolkata in West Bengal. Through his paintings, he depicted the life of the average middle-class Bengali – their aspirations, superstitions, hypocrisy and corruption, and even the violence that is endemic to Kolkata. He worked in oils, acrylics, water-colours, conté and collage. In 2003, he was awarded the highest award of Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship.
Herman Gvardjančič, is a Slovene painter.
Roman Petrović was a Yugoslav painter and writer. He belongs to the generation of artists who created the history of Bosnian-Herzegovinian painting between the two world wars.
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution was an exhibition of international women's art presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from March 4–July 16, 2007. It later traveled to PS1 Contemporary Art Center, where it was on view February 17–May 12, 2008. The exhibition featured works from 120 artists and artists' groups from around the world.
Biren De (1926–2011) was an Indian painter of modern art, known for his paintings with tantric influences. His paintings were characterized by symmetrical patterns of geometry and the presence of tantric symbols such as mandala, phallus and vagina, reportedly representing masculine and feminine energies of the universe. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1992.
Ana Vidjen is a Yugoslav, Croatian and Serbian sculptor. She obtained her MA in sculpture in 1962 at Athens School of Fine Arts, and was encouraged in her chosen field by the Greek feminist poet and writer Eleni Vakalo as well as the painter Milo Milunovic, who founded the Academy of Fine Arts in 1937. Her work includes sculptures in stone, wood and bronze, drawings, paintings and ceramics.
Natalija Cvetković was a Serbian war artist.
Radojica Živanović Noe was a painter and graphic artist of the period of Surrealism and a writer. He left a small number of compositions, still lifes, landscapes and drawings. The most significant period of Živanović's artistic creation is his affiliation with the Surrealist movement (1930–33). He was one of the thirteen signatories of the Manifesto of Surrealism and the only professional painter in the group of artists who initiated the Belgrade Surrealist movement.