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PETAR DJORDJEvIC was born in Pirot, in southern Serbia, in 1943.He and creators of the great European tradition ( from Leonardo, Michelangelo,
finished Art school in Nis in 1963. In 1969, he graduated from the Belgrade Botticelli, through vermeer, velasquez and Delacroix to certain
Academy of Fine Arts. He has been a member of ULUS (Artists´ Association representatives of impressionism and surrealism ) and thus surrendered
of Serbia ) since 1970. He was living in Paris between 1972 and 1975. In himself to the magical influence of their art, not as a passive admirer but
1973 he held an exhibition at the Salon de Paris with Picasso. The paintings as a woken artistic self conscience supported by the experience of modern
presented here are a part of artist´s collection called Art in Negatives, which and postmodern artistic practice. It appears that this contact initiated a
is dedicated to old masters. The very title of Djordjevic´s latest collection miraculously fruitful creation process of personal artistic vision of Petar
– The History of Art in Negatives – indicates that the artist has touched Djordjevic which touched some secret and lasting coordinate of a great
a very specific artistic issue, wider and deeper than the question of pure system of the classic artistic language. Every Djordjevic´s painting consists
artistry and different from postmodernist ideology of claiming the past. He of three temporal dimensions - of three levels followed by three adequate
has chosen several great (if not the greatest ) masters of art, spiritualists formal linguistic expressions: the first dimension represents the time when

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