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A native of Serbia, residing in Belgrade and sometimes in Paris, Dragan Mihailovic has always travelled in the best of worlds, that of his imagination! In childhood, Dragan found inspiration in the beauty of the changing seasons, the first snows of winter and their disappearance, the contrasting colours of the blue sky and the orange of the pumpkins growing in the surrounding fields.

Dragan Mihailovic.

I ran in the fields of corn and pumpkins where the sheep and cattle grazed. I absorbed these scenes, so that they are still alive in my memory. His imagination is completely inspired by these Serbian landscapes, inhabited by the hardworking countryfolk. Spontaneously, his paintings integrate the typical scenes of this corner of Serbia where he was born.

His surroundings had marked him. Literature also proved to be significative in his creativity.

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His biggest journey, however began when he arrived in Paris for the first time at the age of Quite by chance, Dragan met some Serbe painters in Montmartre. Dragan exhibits his first painting in December on the Place du Tertre in Montmartre. Being self-taught, he paints in the naive style the authentic scenes from his fertile imagination that have stayed imprinted in his memory of his native land.

Very soon, the expert eyes of art connoisseurs are charmed by his talent. His dream of selling his work in the important galleries suddenly becomes a reality. To his joy he finds his paintings are exhibited in the Galerie Mona Lisa and the Galerie 93 in Paris.