IBU/ DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

AMINA TALI

MICA TODOROVI
(1900 1981)
Terasa /Terrace
1940
tempera and oil on
canvas

They called her the first lady of Bosnian and Herzegovinian painting .
Mica Todorovi (1900 1981) attended art school and academy in Zagreb as the
only woman in class. In 1954 she had her first one-man exhibition in Belgrade.
Mica Todorovic is most closely related to the development of the BiH art: she
worked closely with the association Collegium Artisticum (1939-1941), is one of
the ten founding members of ULUBiH and one of the first professors at the newly
founded School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo. The collection of Mica Todorovic's
works is exceptionally big (300 paintings and over 100 drawings) and it
represents a refined chronicle of her memories, full of color, serenity and beauty.
'Terrace' is one of the works in which Mica's starting point was an abstract pattern
which she built with drawing and colour, wide lines and underlined gesture where
she finally searched for a concrete subject. It represents a dispersal of artistic
elements and incoherence of colour in one whole, registering the state of work in
progress, as it is a search for form. In this type of her drawings architecture is in
the background; hatched, dissected lines and dots do not have a role in
description of the motives.
Mica Todorovi is a unique artist who doesnt appreciate style and work, she
rather appreciates the experience and path that leads to work. Her painting 'The
Terrace' perfectly depicts her character and skill for 'building' an object out of
abstraction. With her work she reminds us of the beauty and harmony present in
the common yet precious everyday objects.

HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

16.10.2015