Background
Vojislav Jakic was born to a severe, religiously devout Serbian Orthodox family in Macedonia in 1932, when it was still under the republic of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
Vojislav Jakic was born to a severe, religiously devout Serbian Orthodox family in Macedonia in 1932, when it was still under the republic of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
Though Jakic did receive some limited training in his youth, the primarily naive, intuitive, bizarre, pathological, and visionary nature of his style has led to him being classified as an outsider artist, and to his body of work falling under the umbrella of L"Art Brut. The family moved to Serbia when Jakic was three years old. Jakic lived in severe poverty during his early career, executing portraits of the dead for local grieving families for meagre commissions, working from passport photos.
He began his creative work in earnest in 1954, carving wooden sculptures of cupboards filled with bones and skulls, progressing towards large scale painting that he embarked in 1960.
