The December Group Explained

The December Group (Serbian: Децембарска група, Decembarska grupa) was a Serbian artistic group founded in Belgrade in 1955. It ceased to exist in 1960.

The December Group was opposed to social realism in art, instead preferring abstraction.^[1] The group's members were Zoran Petrović,^[2] Miloš Bajić,^[3] Aleksandar Luković, Lazar Vujaklija, Mladen Srbinović, Aleksandar Tomašević, Lazar Vozarević, Miodrag B. Protić, Stojan Ćelić and Dragutin Cigarčić.

The group held nine exhibitions. Retrospectives of their work were shown in Belgrade in 1969 at the Gallery of the Cultural Center and in 1995 at the Zepter Gallery.

Exhibitions

• 1955. 4–15 December, Umetnički paviljon, Beograd
• 1956. 20–30 September, Umetnički paviljon, Sarajevo
• 1956. 17–27 November, Umetnički paviljon, Beograd
• 1957. 11–20 December, Umetnički paviljon, Beograd
• 1958. 15 April – 4 May, Galeria Sztuki, Varšava
• 1958. 4–15 October, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
• 1958. 21–31 December, Umetnički paviljon, Beograd
• 1960. April–May, Narodni muzej, Pančevo
• 1960. 21–30 December, Umetnički paviljon, Beograd

References

Literature

• Painting in the Twentieth century (The Second Epoch – after 1950) by Miodrag B. Protić in "The History of Serbian Culture", Pavle Ivic et al. (translated by Randall A. Major), Porthill Publishers, March 1996,
• Slikarstvo šeste decenije, Jugoslovenska umetnosti XX veka (katalog izložbe), Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, 1980

Notes and References

1. Web site: The line between life and art . Rakic . Snezana . 4 March 2019 . Serbian Monitor . 12 August 2023 .
2. Web site: Zoran Petrović . Modern Gallery Belgrade . 12 August 2023 .
3. Web site: Miloš Bajić . Modern Gallery Belgrade . 12 August 2023 .