Dijana ČOvić

My name is Dijana Čović, a Croatian oil painter and sculptor from Zagreb.
I needed an escape from my reality and my love for art awoke me. I started painting manically. Art made me freely breathe again, and sometimes it is like an addiction..
I like to paint in oil, acrylic and sometimes watercolors usually on cotton or linen canvas. I like big canvases. Using oil I usually evoke the realism of portraits, and with palette knives I evoke the abstraction of shapes, lines and enhance the rhythmicity of the painting.
I am painting mostly in the manner of abstract realism, contrasting two seemingly incompatible concepts, abstract art and realistic art. Abstract art does not refer to real objects. By abstract use of a lines, shapes, colors, texture and pattern, I create movement, give rhythm, evoke emotions. Realism tries to capture moments from real life and time or the personality of individuals or nature that resemble real life. I am looking for a balance of values ​​of size and shape, lines and colors. I am focused on design elements and principles to visually express feelings, thoughts and my own experiences. Focusing to create a balance of values ​​and sizes or shapes and lines. Painting is like beautiful music to me, if ...

- School of Art and Culture Vukovar,
Faculty of Human Science,
University of Zagreb, Croatia
School of art/ Centar of the Contemporary art New Zagreb

My work representing by:

the Artgalery ALM in Zagreb
-St. Lukas gallery in Dubrovnik
-Gallery of Vladimir Bužanić in Zagreb

-March 2016. - solo MATIS Gallery/Zagreb
- solo Exhabition at Croatian Heritage Foundation.
- solo Octobar 2020. ART FAIR ZAGREB 3
- July 2021. Centar of the Contemporary culture
-Octobar 2021. ARTFAIR ZAGREB 4
December 2023. Museum Mimara Zagreb

November/2019.
Gropu Multimedia exhibition IN A SEARCH FOR HAPPYNES2021. CENTAR START ART ZAGREB
Group exhIbition Gallery Zvonimir/Zagreb
Group exhibition April /2019. Šibenik
Group Exhibition/ September/2018. Beograd
Groub exhibition Dubrovnik/St. Lukas Gallery
Group exhibition july/2021. Murter

My Pinterest page has a minimum of 40 000 visitors. Also exhibiting and selling online at an Instagram @Artbydijanacovic
website at Pinterest called Cro Creation Art...
My artworks have been online featured by New York City's Art magazine, Sez art gallery as well as the New York Artpal Gallery.
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