Monument to Vasa Carapic in Belgrade

In the beginning of the second half of the 20thcentury, a generation of artists formed before 1941 produced a wealth of public monuments. This generation of sculptors, educated under the influence of academism and Art Nouveau, retained their stylistic inclinations, expressing the aesthetics of traditional plastic arts. This aesthetic approach was responsive to the ideological demands placed upon the artists, that is, in line with socially engaged art - the prevailing socialist realism of the 1950s. In this context, the Monument to Vasa Carapic, created in 1951, represents both a significant work of art from that period, and the most successful artistic achievements of its author. This monument is also one of the earliest and, at the same time, representative examples of a new discourse of the Yugoslav public sculpture in 1950s, deviating from prevailing trends of the presentation of motifs from the National Liberation War.