Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016): A Conceptual Pioneer of Yugoslav Avantgarde Mladen Stilinović (born April 10, 1947, Belgrade, Serbia; died July 18, 2016, Pula) was a Croatian conceptual artist and one of the foremost figures of Yugoslavia’s “New Art Practice,” marking a pivotal moment in artistic expression during the Cold War era. His formative years were steeped in intellectual ferment—influenced by thinkers like Sartre and Camus—and fueled by an unwavering fascination with cinema and literature, particularly Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Saint-John Perse, Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, T…
A chart of mladen stilinović's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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