Born in the northern part of Yugoslavia, Vojvodina, in third decade of XX century. Graduated Academy of Fine Arts 1954. in the class of Zora Petrović and master degree at same professor in 1956.

She is a member of "ULUS" and "LADA"

In the contemporary Serbian art, the art of Draginja Vlašic is quite unusual. She painted a lot, but exhibited a few times only. According to this, she is much less known then importance and quality of her art deserves.

From the very beginig of her artist being, marked as rebellion in expression, somtimes in spite of professor's orders, she atracted attention of the greatest, even of those such as Henry Moore, who met her works in her student days and litteraly bowed in front of her painting on Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade during his visite to Yugoslavia in late fifties of XX century.

Through long decades marked as politically unsuitable and dissident, she waited, away from any pragmatic politic engagement, surrounded by most of her paintings, liberation of common sense and "better times" to show them to the world.

(Belgrade 2002.)

 

"Thematic of her paintings is mostly, and in the best strength expressed in her compositions with acts, usually of large size, reaching even dimensions larger than 3 X 3 meters. They are followed by less portraits, and, very rarely presenting landscapes and other themes presented in smaller sizes. In her huge compositions there are not details or precise painting. On a contrary. They seem like huge colored krokies in which the very stroke is adequate to a picture dimension. Her strokes are broad and free, mark the shapes just slightly, so the painting exists only in color values and in a strong suggestion of movement. The symbolist vision is strongly confirmed in over dimensioned paintings, where tendencies of senses offers to observer lot of different approaches to the meanings."

Prof.Katarina Ambrozić

(Belgrade 1984)

Group exibitions:

ULUS group exibitions
LADA group exibitions
Traditional October Exibitino - Belgrade
Trienale
Open October exibition
Artists and designers of city of Zemun