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Silvija Jovanović

Negotin -Serbia -Beautiful Earth

silvija68@gmail.com

art # religion # simbolism # heritage # life # drawings # paintings # oldstories # mistic # prehistoric # renesanse # portrait

Paintings and drawings since 2013 to …

This work of mine from 2017 to today is a picture of this time, the end of time in all religions, the end of this Kali Yuga, and we all hope and expect the dawn of the Golden Age and the arrival of light in this darkness.

Time of horror, inhumanity, mindless killing of Earth, animals, people. As ordinary news, we hear about horrors that were unimaginable to us, yet life seems to go on undisturbed, as if we are blind to everything that is happening. Wrapped up in our jobs, small pleasures, we pass by the horrors as if they are in another dimension and do not exist at the same time on the same Earth where we live.

In my works, I explore the past, symbols, texts in other languages, amulets, handprints on the walls of caves and the imprints of destinies at this time, the dance that connects the spirit of groups, creates energy, I search for where it all began, where are all those symbols that exist today but we never understood them.

In all of this, a cross in a circle with a heart in the middle of the cross, a dream that has since become an inevitable symbol in all of my work.

Of course, when I post all the works from this series of works, I will go back to earlier years and post the works that preceded them.

Dream, 2022

pencil, watercolor, mixed media on canvas

A painting inspired by the unusual gray mime artist in front of the Uffizi Gallery who transformed beautiful Florence into a strange magic in my dream. From a strange, almost real dream in which I saw an unusual stone cross in a circle with a heart in the middle, the idea was born that this symbol would be on every one of my works from then on, and like here, it is on my other works as well. 2022.

#heritage #Firenze #art #watercolor #pencil #arhitecture #portrait #ancient #symbol #magic # mimicartist # Florence #drawing # painting # art #dream # cross #

Prehistoric Heritage – Chariot from Dupljaja,

2023.

Inspired by a prehistoric small sculpture depicting a chariot pulled by birds, the charioteer very unusually having the form of a bird. As in the heritage of India and other ancient cultures, the decoration of this prehistoric small sculpture from Serbia features the ancient symbol . This connection of distant cultures through art is a frequent inspiration in my work.

#art #prehistoric #heritage #Serbia #art #watercolor #pencil #chariot #birds #ancient #symbol

Bird woman 2025

pencil, watercolor on canvas 60×50

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to escape to the sky for a while, fly and see this beautiful Earth .

#women #portrait #penciil #art #watercolor #canvas #dream #magic #simbolism #bird #

Wind 2023.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 90x90cm

Walking on a windy day

#art #portrait #women #wind #painting #drawing

You need many eyes to see the truth 2025.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 90x70cm

There is a proverb among my people that says you should open four eyes. Maybe that is the only way to see the truth and avoid danger. How many eyes do we need, the eyes of an optimist, the eyes of a pessimist and the inner one of that conscious true self. Is that enough or is everything in God’s hands?

# portrait # Blue # gray# pencil # watercolor # eyes # proverb # simbolism # dream # truth # awareness #

The light that comes 2026.

pencil, oil, gold , mixed media 90x90cm

In all religions this is a time of fear, suffering, where values are replaced by inhumane ones that destroy society and bring suffering. But also in all religions we wait for the one who brings light and conquers darkness. The greater the darkness we see, the stronger the light that comes. The end of darknes is near…

#art # religion # darkness # LIGHT # waiting #pencil # drawing # painting # white # dark # awaking # Goldenage # Oil on canvas ” gold # awakening #

It’s okay 2026.

pencil, watercolor, mixed media on canvas 80x60cm

Surrounding yourself with beautiful things, with fun, with work, you put a golden blindfold over your eyes and everything is ok. You don’t see wars, hunger, killings, unimaginable, inhuman horrors. The time of the end in all religions, in India is called the time of Kali Yuga.

art# drawing # painting # blinfold # Kali yuga # end and begining # world # time #

Beethoven’s Fifth 2023.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 80x60cm

Three short tones and one long tone, these are the people knocking on the door…

bethoven # simphony # music # art # drawing # painting #

Wisdom or awareness 2023.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 80x60cm

Wisdom or awareness when we open the four eyes, the outer and the inner, and the inevitable symbol of the wisdom of the owl. Now we should see an owl as wisdom to see (the light ) in the dark.

Wisdom # awareness # owl #cross # eyes ” drawing # painting # art #watercolor

Vratna Gates 2019.

pencil, watercolor, on canvas 80x60cm

The natural stone bridge in Vratna in Serbia was the inspiration for this work. Of course, in my works there is a connection with mysticism, old stories that I heard from my grandmother, and the stone bridge has a completely different dimension to my work. For one of the stories that I listened to a long time ago in childhood and that my grandmother heard from her grandmother, this place has always been the place where it took place. I plan to post this unusual story on the website because today I understand it completely differently.

#Vratna #Gates #stone #bridge #art #pencil #drawing #painting #canvas #simbolism #magic #misticizm #story

Open four eyes to see the truth 2019.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 80x60cm

My magical world, around me and within me, listen carefully, look carefully, have faith.

eyes # art # magicworld # watercolor # pencildrawing

Vinča 2023.

pencil, watercolor and mixed media on canvas 80x60cm

Vinča-prehistoric heritage was isnspiration for this painting . There is also symbolism that everyone who watches can interpret in their own way.

Vinča # prehistoric # Serbia # watercolor # drawing # art

Self-portrait 2018.

pencil and watercolor on canvas 80x60cm

A self-portrait with symbols and prehistoric heritage that inspires me.

# self-portrait # heritage # Vinča # Lepenski vir # simbols # art # drawing # painting # oncanvas # amulets # talismans #

Portrait with fish 2025

pencil, watercolor on canvas 60x40cm

Fish is simbol too

drawing # pencil # art# fish# simbolism #

Girl with long hair 2026.

pencil, watercolor on canvas 60x40cm

drawing # pencil # art # simbolism # watercolor # portrait

Get out of my head 2026

pencil, watercolor on canvas 60x40cm

Someone is getting on your nerves…

drawing # pencil # art # simbolism # portrait

Lady and cross 2013

pencil on paper 40×30

pencil # cross# drawing “#“ art #

Prehistoric heritage and cross 2013

pencil on paper 40×30

Art # pencil# paper #drawigs # heritage # prehistoric #

Portrait with a cross 2013.

pencil on paper 40×30

Art # pencil #drawings #portrait # cross #

Bird or not 2018

pencil, watercolor on paper 70×50

art # pencič # drawings # bird #apstract # simbolism #

Overthinking 2014

pencil, watercolor on paper 40×30

art # overthinking # drawing # watercolor #

Portrait with hands and cross 2013.

pencil on paper 40×30

Art # pencil #drawings #portrait # cross #

Cross 2013.

pencil on paper 40×30

Art # pencil #drawings # cross #

Cross with a portrait 2013.

pencil on paper 40×30

Art # pencil #drawings #portrait # cross #

Carmina Burana 2020.

pencil and watercolor on canvas 80x60cm

I named this work Carmina Burana not after the manuscripts but after the work of Carl Orff. His work was inspired, as the title suggests, by medieval writings from the town of Buren in Bavaria. Although the subject matter of the manuscripts is love, nature, the wandering life of poets, the vices of the higher clergy and princes, in Carl Orff’s music I feel only an army that marches, conquers, and mercilessly destroys everything in front of it. Is there something else that inspired the artist or is it just this collection, or is it just me…
So this work of mine also bears this name, is it This Music of Carl Orff or the ambiguity in inspiration, or 2019, and 2020, or a mask over the face or a virus and house arrest, an experiment, or something else behind all that… Sometimes the artist’s idea is obvious in the title and sometimes the observer interprets it himself…

carmina burana# drawing #art # painting # watercolor # war # destroy # ambigulity #virus # experiment # truth #

Vlach women 1995.

pencil and watercolor on paper 40x30cm

Vlajna -or is a name for a woman from one of the ethnic groups from the ethnic minority in Serbia.

vlajna # art # etnic minority # Serbia

Vlach witch 1995.

oil and oil pastel on canvas 100×70 cm

Vlachs – an ethnic group in Serbia Unfortunately, apart from traditional music and costumes, this group is most often talked about, although they are deeply religious Christians, as people who believe magic in and visit Vlach women “witch” who practice magic.
Once upon a time, these poor settlements of theirs did not have doctors, these women were the ones people turned to for advice and medicine, in some way they were the shamans of Eastern Serbia.

Sometimes they did good, unfortunately sometimes evil, that’s why in the picture one eye is evil and one is good.

Today, there are no people who have that knowledge and connection with nature, only those who make a circus for the curious for a little money or, unfortunately, earn money from people who come because of their problems.

Unfortunately, few are aware of the role of the Vlachs in the history of the Balkans, all people know about the Vlachs is what they see in the only broadcasts about them, the constant talk about their superstitions that second-rate journalists and people eager for attention do for the sake of good money.

ART # painting # oiloncancvas # history # tradition # magic # witch # Vlach # women

Waiting 1991.

ink on paper 29x20cm

Waiting 1991.

oil on panel about 50x40cm ( not available )

Mask 1991.

pencil on paper 29x20cm

akrilic on canvas 100×70

Fallen Angel 1995.

This Fallen Angel is not The Fallen angel. When I painted this picture I thought that every soul in heaven is an angel and when they come down from heaven and are born in this world they have to put on a mask because that’s how the world works. You can’t show your feelings sometimes so as not to hurt you, sometimes so as not to hurt others, sometimes for work sometimes for family and so day after day you have to wear a mask more and more often until you forget your true self and your wings fall. And to be able to fly you have to be yourself, the pure soul you were in heaven.

# Fallen angel # Painting # ART #Acrilic # mask # feelings # simbolism #wings # heaven #

Self-portrait 1994.

oil on canvas 68x47cm

Water 1994.

oil on canvas 68x47cm

Water 2 1994.

oil on canvas 68x47cm

Lepenski vir -prehistoric heritage 1994.

oil on canvas 68x47cm

ART # prehistoric # heritage # oiloncanvas # Serbia # Lepenskivir #

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Couple on Earth 1993.

akrilic on canvas 68x47cm ( not available )

Like the painting “Fallen angel” in the picture, this couple comes to earth trying to find each other and peace. On earth they wear their masks that society requires or survival itself and balancing on the line of reality and life they try to maintain a connection with the sky above that gives stability and peace. Creating a sword or a cross, a fight or calmness in faith.

Treasury of Atreus 1994.

oil on canvas 68x47cm

the Judgement of Paris 1991.

oil on cardboard 70x40cm

The theme of this painting is also inspired by history, namely Greek mythology, Paris, who found an apple with the inscription “To the most beautiful” and chose which goddess he would give it to, Aphrodite, Athena, or Hera. After the promise that each goddess made if he chose her, he gave the apple to Aphrodite, who fulfilled her promise and he received the most beautiful woman of the time, Helen of Troy, which led to the Trojan War.

Troja # Trojanwar # the JudgementofParis # Aphrodite # Athena # Hera # ART # greekmithology #

Couple 1995.

oil on canvas about 60x60cm ( not available )

She knows… 1991.

oil on board 60x60cm

In the rain 1997.

watercolor , pencil on paper 35x25cm

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Mask 1993.

pastel, watercolor, acrilik ion canvas 68x47cm

Girl with a owl 1993.

ink, watercolor on paper 40×30