Dušan Otašević

Dušan Otašević (, born 1940) is a Serbian artist.

Biography Otašević was born in Belgrade in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade in 1966. At first he was associated with "New Figuration" in Belgrade, turned to Pop-Art and produced sculptural objects. He currently lives in Belgrade. The figure of St. Sebastian is not stabbed with arrows, but with thin rods representing the handles of painterly.Brushes or pencils, and each of them is painted in one of the seven colors of the natural spectrum, placed in seven pattern squares lined along the inside of the frame. The length of each “arrow”, although arbitrarily defined, is set in such a way to conjure the wavelength of its colour. The shortest is the violet one as the col- our with the least number of angstroms and the longest is the red, with the most of angstroms.

Sangstrel is a hyperbolised myth about the internal traumas of a painterly genius, an individual chosen by mystical powers who is bleeding his creation.

Standing on the borderline from where the belief in the “romantic stereotype of the artistic sublime being is dissolved, Otašević does not enter the field of sarcasm, nor does he push his work into a grotesque.