I have been Danijela Zivkovic’s professor since her very first year of studies, I have thus had numerous opportunities to assess her abilities and the extent of her talent – both quite necessary for a successful career in the field of visual arts.
As her professor, I avouch that Danijela Zivkovic possesses an immense initial talent, and the ability to observe, quickly and correctly, the relation of the natural phenomena, and those of the plastic kind.
She has also been gifted with the ability of visual memory – the important trait that she is more than willing to develop further.
Danijela’s talent, combined with her temperament, leads her constantly into the emphatic, non-compromising search for her own visual expression, through the form which is both synthetic and, at the same time, rich with expression.
She articulates it through the distinctive, strong painter’s gesture, the one that carries the fullness and resonance of colour within, and the striking power of shaping the objects in her paintings.

After successfully completing her model-based work during the first year of studies, Danijela Zivkovic’s highly developed painting instinct, as well as her sharp intellectual ability, led her to search for her own thematic world, the one that does not depend upon the reality of the senses.
She thus retains her interest in the human figure in general, except that this figure, with her shapes understood monumentally and synthetically, connects dramatically with the abstract pictorial space.

The strength of her vision, and the force of her artistic development, are the main characteristics of her personal artistic expression – it already has a clear shape, a shape to be respected.

Belgrade, December 16th 2003.

Zoran Pavlovic

Professor

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