Živorad Nastasijević

[2] Živorad Nastasijević graduated from the Belgrade Art School in 1910, as a student of Djoko Jovanović, Rista Vukanović and Marko Murat.

Like many Serbian artists of the first half of the twentieth century, Nastasijević voluntarily joined the student battalion of Stepa Stepanović, participating first as a fighter until 1917 when he became ill and with bad contusions from a battle for Kaimakchalan, was eventually transported to Algeria where he spent some time convalescing.

[4][5] After the war, he continued his education in the art school in the Parnasse district of Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with professor Claudio Castelucho from 1920 to 1922.

After going to Paris, where he became acquainted with fine arts and works of the old masters, he turned to paint empty, abandoned Belgrade landscapes resembling magical realism and mythological motifs in the atmosphere.

Together with his colleagues Petar Palavicini and Branko Popović, in 1926 Jovan Bijelić formed the Oblik group, joined by Petar Dobrović, Živorad Nastasijević, Toma Rosandić, Veljko Stanojević, Sreten Stojanović, Sava Šumanović and Marino Tartalja as founding members, and later this group is joined by Ignjat Job, Zora Petrović, Ivan Radović, Mate Razmilović, Risto Stijović, architect Dragiša Brašovan.