Milić od Mačve (* 30 October 1934, Belotić – † 8 December 2000, Belgrade),
He was one of the most famous Serbian painters of the 20th century.
Milić’s real name was Milić Stanković, but he is better known to the general public under his artistic pseudonym Milić od Mačve, meaning that he is originally from Mačva, an area in northwestern Serbia whose largest city is Šabac.
He finished high school at the Sabac High School.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (today, Faculty of Fine Arts) in 1959.
After that he was on a study stay in Paris.
He opened his first solo exhibition on September 1, 1959 in Belgrade.
He had his first solo exhibition abroad in 1964 in Geneva.
He has been a member of ULUS since 1960.
During 1964 and 1965, he lived and worked in Paris, then in Belgrade, Brussels, Belotic, Zlatibor and Pyros (Greece).
He was one of the 13 members of the “Media” society, founded in 1956 (or 1958 [source sought from July 2010]).
The members of the group were: Olja Ivanjicki, Miro Glavurtić, Vladimir Veličković, Kosta Bradić, Ljuba Popović, Dado Đurić, Milić od Mačve, Vladan Radovanović, Uroš Tošković, Milovan Vidak, Siniša Vuković and Svetozar Samurović.
His paintings are dominated by floating boulders for which he is especially famous, then glowing balls and icebergs.
His role models in painting were Bosch, Brueghel, Ivan Generalić and Salvador Dali, and his painting could be said to be an inherent mixture of figurative surrealism and naive art.
In addition to painting, he was also involved in architecture (he designed and built three studios), sculpture and poetry writing.
He had a specific style of dress: a black cloak similar to a mantle, a black beret and a stick resembling a bishop’s.
In the 1990s, he appeared in public as a representative of the Serbian autochthonous school, which believes that Serbs are the oldest people in the world.
He believed in Tesla’s secret weapon and mentioned it as a threat “if only one bomb falls on Belgrade” [1].
He was an opponent of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and proposed that some academics be deprived of their doctoral degrees.
In some circles, he was considered one of the greatest Serbian patriots.
He left about 130 paintings to the city of Kruševac, mostly oil on canvas, with several watercolors and graphics.
His daughter is the famous multimedia artist Simonida Stanković.
He passed away on December 8, 2000 and was buried in the Alley of Deserving Citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.
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