Senior students of Primary School Savremena always learn in a creative way, and their classroom is often without walls. Introducing them to art and culture is often realised through visits to museums, exhibitions and other cultural institutions, and the visits to the Petar Lubarda Heritage House and the exhibition of paintings of their teacher Suzana Vulović at the House of King Petar I were particularly memorable.

Savremena students had the opportunity to learn more about the work of this famous painter by visiting his heritage house in Belgrade. There, they could see why many believe that this Yugoslav painter changed the course of Yugoslav painting after WWII.

LUBARDA AS INSPIRATION TO MODERN ARTISTS

Petar Lubarda is one of the most important artists of this region whose work marked and spearheaded trends in painting in the second half of the 20th century. The assertiveness of expression and creative power are among the main qualities of this modernist who is counted among the most gifted and influential artists in Yugoslavia.

At the Petar Lubarda Heritage House, students had the opportunity to see 24 paintings, 292 drawings and graphics. The Heritage House also houses the artist’s furniture, personal archives and manuscripts, part of his library and personal belongings in Iličićeva Street 1.

Some of the most monumental works of this artist, which left a great impression on our students, include his stony landscapes, and paintings of historical events and folk legends, as well as paintings from his socialist realism phase.

EXHIBITION OF OUR TEACHER SUZANA VULOVIĆ

A solo exhibition titled Away by Zorana Milićević, Milica Lojović and Suzana Vulović – Art teacher at Primary School opened at the House of King Petar I, and it was our teacher Vulović who, together with her fellow Art teacher Marina Gava, took children to see this exhibition, as well as to visit the Petar Lubarda Heritage House.

This is not the first time our students are visiting their teacher’s exhibition, and it is a privilege to be taught by a true artist dedicated to the creative process, not only in pedagogical terms, but through artistic practice as well.

We will quote part of the art exhibition review written by the curator Ana Simona Zelenović:

Suzana Vulović’s paintings are proof that painting has survived even after numerous proclamations of its death. The need to combine colours into a seemingly chaotic whole has survived, as well as the need for a detailed and gradual development of visual language. The traditional urge shared by all painters to seek a “formula” has survived. Painting has continued to exist as a medium where inexhaustible ideas and the need for expansion still ‘have to be’ physically limited. Suzana Vulović’s paintings show that both male and female painters nevertheless desire the ‘self-control’ imposed by the medium of painting – except that now, they return to it consciously, without the need to reject rules and formalism, because they’ve realised that they don’t have to do anything anymore, and that there are no rules. However, painters have decided to re-examine the possibilities of the medium from a new and personal perspective.

We will continue to teach classes outside the classroom, visit institutions of art and culture, and learn from the best!