jubica Cuca Sokić (9. 12. 1914 – 8. 01. 2009) is a famous Serbian painter, professor of Belgrade University and an academic. She marked Serbian and Yugoslavian art of the 20th century with her personality and work, and she is a real representative of Serbian intimistic painting. She was a painter of a plain and simple life, weather she was painting interior, still life, or she was devoted to painting landscapes, figures or portraits. Later in his work she moved to simplifying forms, geometrics and moderate abstraction, which lead her to reducing the painting to refined relation between painted surfaces: gray, blue, green and brown. Since 1961 Ljubica Sokić worked with pastel colours. At times she used collage and experimental materials techniques. Besides painting, she illustrated children’s books and magazines, and also made sketches for movies. As for many of our intimistic painters, schooling in Paris, in the second half of thirties, for Cuca Sokić was crucial.
French art and French cultural milieu determined the course and spirit of Belgrade painting school, whose one of the most prominent representatives was Cuca Sokić. Her painting was elegiac, lyric and intimate, at first sight simple, and in fact very layered. Београдске сликарске школе, чији је један од најистакнутијих представника била Цуца Сокић. Њено сликарство је било елегично, лирско и интимно, на први поглед једноставно, а у суштини веома слојевито.
Cuca Sokić comes frоm a rich civil family. She was educated, and respected not only as a great painter, but also as a person of high moral beliefs. Everyone who knew her emphasized her civic education, human dignity, modesty and honesty. Department of Fine Arts of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, whose member was Cuca Sokić, started the initiative to name one of the streets in Belgrade by the name of this famous painter.
