Filip Vučković’s exhibition

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04 Feb

The exhibition of the works of one of the first trained Montenegrin painters from the beginning of the 20th century, Filip Vučković (1888-1961), was opened today in the Njegoš museum – Billiards in Cetinje, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the artist’s death. The exhibition, organized by the National Museum of Montenegro, includes 48 works of a smaller format, created in the interval from 1915 to 1940, made in ink, watercolor and oil, which are owned by the Vučković family.

The exhibition was opened by the director of the National Museum, art historian and art critic, Dr. Anastazija Miranović, in compliance with the current health measures, who emphasized that it was created in the desire to remind people of the inevitable Montenegrin “crossroads” of artistic thought, who paved the way for later greats. Montenegrin fine arts, without which it would certainly not be what it is.

– Like Janko Brajović, the famous Montenegrin sculptor, who created and lived in the “distant world”, a world that knew and appreciated him more than his native, native one, and Filip Vučković is unfairly forgotten, superficially and rarely mentioned in sporadic expert observations dealt with general or thematic sections of the local art scene of the first half of the twentieth century – said Miranović.

She pointed out that Vučković is thematically related to the usual academic mediums – portrait, nude, landscape, city views; stylistically, he remains consistent with himself, which was noticed at the very beginning of his artistic education.

-Continuous and permanent education in educational institutions, and no less in European museums and galleries, channels the collected and acquired knowledge into a strong support for Vučković’s notable talent and sensibility, a permanent support for his self-confidence for his own artistic reflections and statements. With Vučković, there are no sudden leaps, everything goes and follows a sequence, in education, in expression, in manner. Mild tonal modulations, mostly of earthy tones, gradually give way to the release of color and form, accented penetrations of light and greater expressiveness. Inevitably, the spirit of the era and academic education in the art centers of that time was reflected in Vučković’s work. Nevertheless, this talented artist always remained attached to himself, his feeling, not allowing academicism to hold him back in fine, poeticized statements, expressions of what he saw and experienced – said Miranović and added that the entire creative oeuvre of Filip Vučković represents an intimate portrait of an era – portraits of people , places, appetizers, atmospheres.

According to her, in all different genres, motifs, techniques, Filip Vučković remains consistent and consistent with his own artistic introspection into the essence of things, phenomena and conditions. He expresses the fluttering unrest of his soul most beautifully in his watercolors, while in his drawings, mostly in ink, the nervature, attitude, and ratio are dominantly expressed.

She thanked Vučković’s family for donating the works for the exhibition and expressed her expectation that the National Museum managed to arouse the interest of the public, above all experts, to reveal the value of an authentic, reference work of art that has been waiting for decades for adequate valorization under the veil of Montenegrin art history.

In front of the family, Aleksandar Vučković spoke, who thanked the National Museum, Dr. Anastasia Miranović, and the head of the Njegoš Museum, Isidora Kovačević, for making it possible to organize the exhibition exactly sixty years after the artist’s death.

Filip Vučković belongs to a small number of Montenegrin, educated artists from the beginning of the twentieth century. He graduated from the prestigious Munich Art Academy (Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts – Koniglich Bayerische Akademie der bildenden Kunste). He also spent two years in Paris at the School of Fine Arts (L’ Scole Nationale des Beaux-Arts). In some references, Vučković’s education is also mentioned in Venice, at the Art Academy there, which he graduated in 1924. In Paris, in 1919, at the exhibition of Yugoslav artists, he was the only participant/representative from Montenegro, among the constellation of the most prominent Yugoslav artists at the time. artists – Ivan Meštrović, Vlaho Bukovac, Sava Šumanović, Rist and Beta Vukanović, etc.

The opening of the exhibition was organized without the presence of the audience, due to current health measures to combat the corona virus pandemic, and was broadcast online via the National Museum’s social networks.

The author of the exhibition is Dr. Anastazija Miranović, and it will be on display until March 29, 2021.