Ljuba Popovié 14 October 1934 – 12 August 2016 was a Serbian surrealist painter.
known for his many erotic and unconventional themes juxtaposed with the erotic.

Born in Tuzla, Bosnia, Popovié studied fine art in Belgrade.
During a visit to Paris, he was impressed by the discovery of the 1959 exhibition of Surrealist art from the Urvater collection.
In 1960 he founded the Mediala movement to express concepts of desire and fear.
Popovié arrived in Paris in 1963 and was immediately welcomed by French gallery owners and surrealists.
Residing in Paris and supported by Thessa Herold’s gallery, he painted fantastic scenes, full of unsettling and desirable creatures, reminiscent of
He lived in Paris and was supported by the Thessa Herold gallery, where he painted fantastic scenes, full of disturbing and desirable creatures, reminiscent of Dali’s work, according to a review by Mandiargues in 1970.
Inspired by Renaissance and Baroque painting, as well as by his grandfather’s exorcisms, Popovié’s works deal with the demons and demons of his grandfather.
Popovié’s works deal with the demons of a dark pessimism.

This is the subject of Walerian Borowczyk’s documentary short L’amour monstre de tous les temps (1978).
Popovié lived in Paris since 1963, occasionally visiting Serbia.in July 2016,
while on his summer retreat on the Athos peninsula in Greece, he became ill and was
transferred to a hospital in Belgrade. He died in the night between 11 and 12 August 2016.

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