Miss Iliad

A stylised figural presentation – two larger anthropic-zoomorphic figures and a smaller one on the right, given en face in the abstract, golden background. The figure on the right has a heart-shaped head with a strange hairstyle or cap, differentiated limbs, the upper wing-shaped and the lower human. Next to it, another figure is differentiated with the egg-shaped head and body like a dress; a strange hat is on the head, i.e. two bird's heads in the right profile. The far right figure has a differentiated head and a triangular body with wings and thin legs. The form is produced by colour pigment, directly spraying it over the background; the correlation between complementary colours is characteristic. Ilija’s works are not descriptive, but are allegorical with multi-layered and symbolical context. He did not make difference between the presentation of an apocalyptic angel or modern astronaut, kings of Apocalypse and kings of Iliad, between a simple and an apocalyptic bird etc. Ilija created the anti-illusionistic, the abstract. He did not use perspective; he eliminated reminiscences; he generalized and prefigured by using signs, i.e. symbols (N. Krstić).