BELGRADE — Painter Olja Ivanjicki died on Wednesday in Belgrade, at the age of 78, the Serbian Association of Painters has confirmed. Ivanjicki, born in Serbia and of Russian extraction, was one of the founders of the Mediala surrealist figurative painting group created in the 1960s to rally major Serbian artists, including Leonid ejka, Dado Ðuriæ, Vladimir Velièkoviæ, and Ljuba Popoviæ. She exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Museum of Modern Art in Skopje, and at the Dobbs Ferry campus in New York. The winner of many awards and prizes, she was named best artist of the 20th century in Yugoslavia based on a popular vote.

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