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Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar as inspiration: architecture, history, and relevant people have inspired a series of artist creations. Share your artworks or suggest new artists.

 

Miodrag Milićević (2018): Once upon a time…,  watercolour, 36 x 48 cm

Source: Facebook 

Miodrag Milićević (2020): ballpen drawing

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Miodrag Milićević: (2020): ballpen drawing on cardboard.

Source: Facebook

Vedrana Božić, Claire Noel Gallery (2022): Partiza

Source: Claire Noel Facebook

 

Vedrana Božić, Claire Noel Gallery (2022): Partiza

Source: Clair Noel Facebook

Miro Brešić (2023): Monument to the underground members, Mostar – Boulevard, watercolour, 23 x 30 cm, Arches cotton paper

Source: Facebook

Miro Brešić (2023): memorial plaques

Source: Facebook

Bošković Zdenko (2022): scenes from Mostar.

Source: Facebook

 

Bošković Zdenko (2023): scenes from Mostar

Source: Facebook

Ivo Šeremet: Adem Buć (restaured in 2016.)

Izvor

Petar Tiješić (1952): Mladen Balorda. Ulje na platnu, 54 x 65 cm; Inv. No. 390

Source: Treasures of Socialism

Stevan Jenovac (1953): Karlo Batko – Drago, ulje na platnu, 65 x 55 cm; Inv. No. 471

Source: Treasures of Socialism

Nada Novaković (1948): Hasan Zahirović Laca, ulje na platnu, 53 x 64 cm; Inv. No 436

Source: Treasures of Socialism

Milan Vasiljević (1952): Mithat Haćam – Aćim, ulje na platnu, 54 x 66 cm; Inv. No. 398

Source: Treasures of Socialism

poster for a movie “Noći i jutra” (1959)

Source: imdb

See the movie here.

unknown artist, 1950s, front page of a book by Mensur Seferović: “Bataljon u okupiranom gradu” ‘- inspired by stories of fighters from Mostar, incl. the arrest of Radojka Gnjatić Ivanišević in 1943.

Maja Rubinić, workshop poster (2023), IDEAA

Source: IDEAA

 

 

Maja Rubinić, drawing

Source: IDEAA

Davisi Boontharm (2022): incomplete watercolour

Source: IDEAA

poster, IDEAA

Source: IDEAA

Branko Šotra, 1960s

front page for books “Hercegovina u NOB”

nepoznati autor, 1957.

naslovnica knjige Mensura Seferovića (1957): „Tajna partijske ćelije“, Sarajevo.

Florijan Mićković, Nikola Njirić (mid- 1980s): busts of 13 national heroes

Find out more here.

Florijan Mićković, Statue of Zlatka Vuković, in front of textile factory in Mostar

unknown artist: pilot Aca Vuković, a drawing found among his documents.

Source: Aviation museum in Belgrade

graffiti in Mostar: “Nije sloboda sa neba pala” (Freedom did not fall from the sky) – a verse from a famous song by the ensemble “Mostarske kiše” (“The freedom did not fall from the sky, a sister gave three of her brothers for it”, delivered by Kemal Monteno.)

graffiti in Mostar: “Remembering heroes” – Avdo Humo, Mladen Balorda,  Hasan Zahirović Laca.

postcards featuring national heroes from Mostar.

Source: UABNOR Mostar

an art installation by Marina Mimosa

Source: Chris Leslie (photo and article), Guardian, June 2, 2023.

Mostar Street Art Festival 2018: “The Stories about Partiza”

Source: Facebook 3.6.2018Street Art Festival 2018.

Partisan Memorial in EU colours, a light show

Source: Hercegovina.in. More on klix.ba.

Marko Barišić, Aida Murtić, Alisa Burzić: “Mostarska Hurqualya” (2017), Source: nezaboravljeni grad

Title page: Alisa Burzić

photo from an exhibition about Yugoslavian monuments (shown in lower right end).

Source: documentary “Umetnost sećanja“ (The art of remembering).

drawing by Ico Voljevica, from the title page of book “Pred očima grada“, by Mensur Seferović.

Illustration from the book “The Neretva”, by Ljubo Mihić, phd

Miro Brešić (2023), Detail from the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Watercolor 23X30 cm, Arches cotton paper. Source: facebook.

concerts of the former youth ensemble “Mostarske kiše”.

concerts of the former youth ensemble “Mostarske kiše”.

Theatre piece “Comrade Gojko”, an open air event in 2018.

Source: tačno.net

Marina Đapić’s installation inspired by the text of Bogdan Bogdanović,Mostar Street Art Festival 2013. 

Source: nezaboravljeni grad

Greeting to the Universe, mural on Kantarevac, Mostar, inspired by the detail from the monument.  Mostar Street Art Festival 2013. 

Source: nezaboravljeni grad

 Performans by Dejan Kosanić, Mostar Street Art Festival Mostar 2013.  

Source: nezaboravljeni grad.

Performance Bodies of Water by Yoav Admoni as a part of Mostar City Lab collaboration.

Source: nezaboravljeni grad.

The 2nd Antifascist Film Festival in Mostar

Source: tacno.net

The choir Praksa from Pula, Croatia, practicing at the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Feb 11, 2023.

Source: tacno.net.

Ensemble “Crveni makovi”, performance on the Partisan cemetery, late 1970s / early 1980s

Emir Isović (2013): detail from the map of Yugoslavia

See entire map and video.

Exhibition “Doomed architect” (2016), author: Sonja Leboš.

Source: “Slobodna Dalmacija

Title page of book “Bogdanovićev vokabular” (Bogdanović’s vocabulary), author Ronald Panza

Source: federalna.ba

Title page of poetry book “Bulevar narodne revolucije”, by Marko Tomaš, Algoritam, Zagreb, 2013. featuring fallen fighter Mustafa Repak.

Izvor: mvinfo.hr


Title page of poetry book “Zbogom fašisti”, by Marko Tomaš, Buybook, Sarajevo, 2010, featuring fallen fighter Mustafa Repak (self-portrait).

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Song collection (lyrics and notes) of Mostarske kiše: “Našom pjesmom zemlja jača“, edition of “Svjetlost”,  Sarajevo, 1979. Hear some of the songs here. Two songs are dedicated to Mostar fighters: “Mostarska majka” i “Zlatka Vuković”.