City and Design

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drawing and decoration skills was not one of our goals, certain participants noticed how they were capable of achieving more precise movements, making more confident lines and succeeding in realizing their ideas. The Art Workshops favour individual approach and the work program was modified for each participant, always in accordance with individual desires and psychological and physical abilities, thus allowing the recognition of participants’ own affinities and expressive abilities. Today, the Art Workshops are self-sustainable, which was achieved by sale of its works of art. During the last few years, we have had a unique opportunity to host several artists in the Home “Dr Dragisa Vitosevic� and to present their art works to participants of the Art Workshop. As a part of those activities, Branko Pavic, an artist and professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, and Dusan Rajic, a young artist and student of architecture, were invited as guests within the Art Workshop. At the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade there is a long tradition of art workshops within the Painting Cabinet (Workshop 301) which are a place of experimentation with different media and the possibilities of artistic expression in the borderline area between art and architecture. A significant characteristic of these workshops is the emphasis on creation of a strong concept and its consistent realization, as well as on high standards 197


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