Media and Culture

ELECTIVE SUBJECT: MEDIA AND CULTURE

Within the elective subject Language, Media and Culture, first and second-grade students, with the support of professors Dragana Grujičić, Marija Pantić, as well as principal Tatjana Ristić, designed how the preparation of an exhibition of paintings by Milena Pavlović Barili would look. During the first semester, students went through all the important phases of detailed and quality preparation for a painting exhibition. The goal of this activity was to develop organizational, communication and creative competencies, as well as to bring students closer to understanding the importance of media in communication and conveying messages between authors and the public, that is, between their works and exhibition visitors. Students designed a catalog and created posters for the exhibition of paintings by Milena Pavlović Barili.

Catalog

“Fantasy and Mystery”

Exhibition of Paintings by Milena Pavlović Barili

Milena Pavlović Barili represents one of the leading Yugoslav female painters. Multi-talented, she wrote poetry and designed clothing and costumes in addition to commercial illustration and painting. Her family was well-educated, with noble roots.

Her education was marked by relocations. From first grade of elementary school, she traveled with her parents throughout Western Europe and Serbia, seeking the best possible education. At 17, in Belgrade, with prior knowledge from Italian, German and French schools, she was offered a teaching position. But she was preparing for art academy and went to Munich. She left it the same year and went to Paris with her mother. Becoming enchanted, she remained connected to France for her entire life.

After this, she traveled throughout Europe for some time and opened exhibitions. Sensing the beginning of World War II, she gathered money and bought a ticket to New York.

Like various other great South Slavs, she achieved the American Dream there with her talent. She painted portraits of New York’s elite and actors. She illustrated for fashion magazines and designed costumes for ballets.

At 38 years old, in the same year she fell from a horse and had a heart attack. With a fragile spirit and body, she died in her apartment in New York.

Today her ashes rest in a non-Catholic Roman cemetery, and her legacy lives in our souls.