Vasko Lipovac

Vasilije Vasko Lipovac was born on June 14, 1931, in Škaljari, a small coastal settlement near Kotor in Montenegro. He was the youngest of five children in a very harmonious family of a prosperous merchant and a shipping agent Spasoje Lipovac and Antica Lui, the daughter of a respectable landowner Maksimilijan Lui.{{cite journal |last=Martinović |first=Jovan |date=July 2013 |title=Hommage Vasku Lipovcu |url=http://www.museummaritimum.com/mn/images/stories/jedraboke/2013/JEDRA%20BOKE%20JUL%202013.pdf |language=hr |journal=Jedra Boke |pages=4–5 |access-date=3 July 2014}} He attended Real Grammar School in Kotor, where his drawing teacher was Mato Đuranović (1895–1973), the painter who inspired his students with the bright, shiny colors of his works.{{cite journal |last=Martinović |first=Jovan |date=July 2013 |title=Hommage Vasku Lipovcu |url=http://www.museummaritimum.com/mn/images/stories/jedraboke/2013/JEDRA%20BOKE%20JUL%202013.pdf |language=hr |journal=Jedra Boke |pages=4–5 |access-date=3 July 2014}}

After graduating from the secondary school, he moved to Zagreb, Croatia in 1950 and enrolled in the Academy of Applied Arts. During this period of the early 1950s, many future prominent artists attended Zagreb Academy of Applied Arts, such as Zlatko Bourek, Jagoda Buić, Ante Sony Jakić, Zvonimir Lončarić, Mladen Pejaković, Ordan Petlevski and Pavao Štalter.{{cite book|last=Tomić|first=Ante|url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics|title=Erotika|publisher=Profil International d.d.|year=2008|isbn=978-953-12-0802-4|location=Zagreb|page=336}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1178912922|title=Refleksije Bauhausa: Akademija primijenjenih umjetnosti u Zagrebu, 1949-1955 = Reflections of Bauhaus: the Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb, 1949-1955|date=2019|publisher=Galerija Klovićevi dvori|isbn=978-953-271-123-3|editor-last=Galjer|editor-first=Jasna|location=Zagreb|oclc=1178912922|editor-last2=Medić|editor-first2=Ana}} Lipovac initially chose sculpture, in the class of Kosta Angeli Radovani, but during sophomore year (1951/1952) he switched to painting, where his mentor became Željko Hegedušić.{{cite book |title=Erotika| url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics |last=Tomić |first=Ante |year=2008 |publisher=Profil International d.d. | location=Zagreb |page=340 |isbn=978-953-12-0802-4}} In his final year at the Academy Lipovac created his first notable work, a stained glass "Woman with a Cat",{{Cite book |last1=Maković |first1=Zvonko |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085621832 |title=Vasko Lipovac: Retrospektiva |last2=Medić |first2=Ana |date=2017 |publisher=Galerija Klovićevi dvori |isbn=978-953-271-104-2 |location=Zagreb |pages=11 |oclc=1085621832}} now part of the Museum of Arts and Crafts collection.{{Cite web|title=MUO {{!}} AthenaPlus {{!}} Digitalni repozitorij {{!}} ArhivX|url=http://athena.muo.hr/?object=detail&id=45710|access-date=2022-01-24|website=athena.muo.hr}}

After graduation, from 1955 to 1959 Lipovac attended the Master's Workshop of professor Krsto Hegedušić.{{cite book |title=Erotika |url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics |last=Tomić |first=Ante |year=2008 |publisher=Profil International d.d. |location=Zagreb | page=337 |isbn=978-953-12-0802-4}} This postgraduate study gave many talented young visual artists, as diverse as Miroslav Šutej and Marina Abramović,{{Cite web |title=Iz fundusa galerije Krsto Hegedušić |url=https://galerija-striegl.hr/izlozbe/iz-fundusa-galerije-krsto-hegedusic/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=Gradska galerija Striegl |language=hr}} much needed freedom and opportunity to explore and use their artistic sensibility.{{cite news |last=Jelinčić |first=Frane |date=January 27, 1973 |title=S plohe u prostor |language=hr |newspaper=Studio – ilustrirana revija za televiziju, radio, film i kazalište |location=Zagreb |publisher=Vjesnik }}{{Cite book |last1=Maković |first1=Zvonko |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085621832 |title=Vasko Lipovac: Retrospektiva |last2=Medić |first2=Ana |date=2017 |publisher=Galerija Klovićevi dvori |isbn=978-953-271-104-2 |location=Zagreb |pages=11 |oclc=1085621832}} Shortly after joining workshop Lipovac started abstracting human figures, as well as their surroundings, to simple geometric shapes that became a hallmark of his work in following decades. Continuous strides towards radical stylization lead him to a short but very successful foray into geometric abstraction. Towards the end of Lipovac's postgraduate study the Workshop was visited by Peggy Guggenheim, who bought one of his works.{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1220878347|title=Vasko Lipovac: očaravajuća nedjeljivost radoznalosti: Crnogorska galerija umjetnosti Miodrag Dado Đurić, Cetinje, septembar-oktobar = Vasko Lipovac: the enchanting indivisibility of curiosity|last2=|first2=|date=2016|publisher=National Museum of Montenegro|isbn=978-86-85567-60-5|editor-last=Dabović Pejović|editor-first=Mirjana|location=Cetinje|pages=21|oclc=1220878347}} This episode was finished off at the end of 1950s with an exhibition in City of York Art Gallery, together with Ordan Petlevski. The exhibition was curated by Hans Hess, and received a positive review from Herbert Read.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085621832|title=Vasko Lipovac: Retrospektiva|date=2017|others=Ana Medić, Zvonko Maković, Galerija Klovićevi dvori|isbn=978-953-271-104-2|location=Zagreb|oclc=1085621832}}

In 1959 he married Milena Matas, and they later had three sons.{{cite news |last=Zlatar |first=Pero |date=March 20, 1976 |title=Čudesne ptice iz ekrana |language=hr |newspaper=Studio – ilustrirana revija za televiziju, radio, film i kazalište |location=Zagreb |publisher=Vjesnik }} He spent most of the 1960 in the army, and upon returning to Zagreb he spent a year (1964–1966) as an art editor assistant in the magazine “Chemistry in industry”, which was the only full-time job he ever had.{{cite book |title=Erotika |url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics |last=Tomić |first=Ante | year=2008 |publisher=Profil International d.d. |location=Zagreb |page=343 |isbn=978-953-12-0802-4}}{{cite encyclopedia |title=LIPOVAC, Vasko (Vasilije) |url=http://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=11826 |access-date=April 25, 2016 |language=hr |encyclopedia=Hrvatski biografski leksikon |year=2013 |publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža |location=Zagreb }} In 1965 he had the first solo exhibition, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Split; the exhibition was curated by Kruno Prijatelj,{{Cite book|last=Prancevic|first=Dalibor|title=Vasko Lipovac: Rani radovi 1950. - 1965.|year=2016|location=Split|pages=4}} with whom Lipovac established close collaboration over the next two decades, resulting in numerous projects and exhibitions.{{Cite journal|last=Maroevic|first=Tonko|date=2014|title=Vasko Lipovac – A Bridge Between Cultures|journal=Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Glasnik of the Department of Social Sciences|volume=22|pages=87}}

Since 1967, Vasko Lipovac lived and worked in Split, Croatia, where the Mediterranean climate inspired him to fulfil his poetic vision, and to create numerous works.{{cite web| last=Gelemanović |first=Mirko |title=Vasko Lipovac |url=http://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org/project-info |access-date=June 26, 2014}} Four thematic units have been detected in the work of Lipovac, namely the Mediterranean, sports, the sacral and erotic.{{cite speech |title= The Erotic Homo Adriaticus: 38 Years of Sex in Vasko Lipovac's Work |last=Pavičić Prijatelj |first=Ivana |date=June 14, 2011 |event=Days of Open Atelier |location= Atelier Vasko Lipovac, Split}}

During the whole course of his active life he carried within himself the images of the native landscape of Boka Kotorska and the rich cultural heritage of his home town, while his education in Zagreb provided him with an access to the essential experiences of modernism and figurative autonomy, especially thanks to Kosta Angeli Radovani. So in his work, apart from the early abstract phase, he tried to affirm the contemporary anthropomorphic and associative sculpture and figurative painting, succeeding in evoking the figures and ambiances of recognizably Mediterranean descent.{{cite journal |last= Maroević |first=Tonko |date= 2014 |title=Vasko Lipovac – A Bridge Between Cultures |url=https://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/tonko_maroevi___vasko_lipovac-most_/1?e=1186362/38320259 |journal=Glasnik Odjeljenja Društvenih Nauka |issue=22 |pages=89 |access-date=September 3, 2014}} No matter how stylized, that figure is full of life, just like a human being who works, thinks, feels...{{cite web| last=Gelemanović |first=Mirko |title=Vasko Lipovac |url=http://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org/project-info |access-date=June 26, 2014}}

He was intrigued by the idea of integrating art with architecture, and especially integration of art into workspace, so he collaborated with numerous architects.{{cite interview |last=Lipovac |first=Vasko |subject-link=Vasko Lipovac |interviewer=Josip Škunca |title=Jedan dan veselja Vaska Lipovca |date=October 26, 1975 |language=hr |newspaper=Slobodna Dalmacija |location=Split |publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija d.d.}} Among his most prominent are the collaborations with Bernardo Bernardi (hr),{{cite journal|last=Ceraj|first=Iva|date=2013|title=Bernardo Bernardi – The spiritus movens of Early Design in Croatia|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/166508|journal=Art Bulletin|issue=63|pages=119|access-date=October 6, 2014}} Julije De Luca (hr), Ante Rožić (hr),{{Cite web |last=Kiš |first=Patricia |date=2020-10-20 |title=Jadranske hotelske ljeptice na listi remek-djela, a 'Maestral' zaslužuje posebno mjesto |url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/life/putovanja/jadranske-hotelske-ljeptice-na-listi-remek-djela-a-maestral-zasluzuje-posebno-mjesto-15026699 |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=www.jutarnji.hr |language=hr-hr}} Vjekoslav Ivanišević, Dinko Kovačić (hr),{{cite web|url=http://stari.dalmacijanews.com/Hrvatska/View/tabid/77/ID/132979/Cijeli-svijet-se-divio-kompleksu-Split-3-FOTO.aspx|title=Cijeli svijet se divio kompleksu Split 3|last1=Šušak Živković|first1=Živana|date=November 21, 2013|website=Dalmacija News|language=hr|access-date=October 6, 2014}} Lovro Perković (hr), Jerko Rošin (hr),{{cite news |last=Rošin |first=Jerko |date=March 3, 1974 |title=Oblik u prostoru, a ne riječ na tabli |language=hr |newspaper=Nedjeljna Dalmacija |location=Split |publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija d.d. |page=12}} and Ivan Vulić.{{Cite journal|last=Cambi|first=Nenad|date=2007|title=Vasku Lipovcu u počast, godinu dana poslije smrti|journal=Mogućnosti: časopis za književnost, umjetnost i kulturne probleme|volume=4-6|pages=208–209}}

Lipovac was twice part of the team, led by architect Branko Silađin, that conceived and designed national pavilions for the World Exhibition. He made paintings that flanked the entrance of the pavilion for Expo '98 in Lisbon,{{Cite journal|last=Kiš|first=Dragutin|date=1998|title=Od Vasca da Game do Vaska Lipovca|journal=Čovjek i prostor|volume=530-531|pages=44–45|issn=0011-0728}} and designed the exterior of the pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hanover, in his trademark minimalist style.{{Cite journal|last=Nadilo|first=Branko|date=2000|title=Hrvatski paviljon na svjetskoj izložbi u Hannoveru|journal=Građevinar|volume=52|pages=345–347|issn=0350-2465}} Both pavilions are considered to be among the best in their respective Expos, and the pavilion for Hanover Expo was included in the 2010 exhibition Architecture as Landscape: A Morphology of Contemporary Croatian Architecture at London Festival of Architecture.{{Cite book|last=Modrčin|first=Leo|title=Architecture as landscape: A morphology of contemporary architecture in Croatia|publisher=Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia|year=2010}}{{Cite web|title=Croatian Pavilion, EXPO 2005, Aichi|url=https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-projects/cgcm/croatian_pavilion_2c_expo_2005_2c_aichi-project-pages.html|access-date=2022-02-01|website=worldarchitecture.org}}

Exceptionally prolific and equally skillful in various techniques and using wide range of materials, high-polished metal, polychromous wood, enamel, terracotta or polyester to create his sculptures, reliefs and mobiles, his work encompasses many different art forms (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, illustration as well as set and costume design). As a result, he had almost 100 solo and over 200 group, juried, problem, conceptual, and important invitational exhibitions in Croatia as well as abroad during his life.{{cite book |title=Graphic Games |url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/graphic_games |last1=Belamarić |first1=Joško |last2=Gelemanović |first2=Mirko |year=2007 |publisher=Muzej grada Splita |location=Split |page=17}}{{cite web|title=Vasko Lipovac, One-man exhibitions |url=http://www.vaskolipovac.com/samostalne-izlozbe/ |access-date=October 11, 2014}} He gained a great deal of deserved popularity with the wider public and earned an equally high esteem and recognition with the professional critics and received over twenty awards and honors for his sculptures, paintings, graphics, illustrations and public monuments. In May 2006, “Slobodna Dalmacija” awarded him with the lifetime achievement award.

Vasko Lipovac died on July 4, 2006.{{cite web| last=Gelemanović |first=Mirko |title=Vasko Lipovac |url=http://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org/project-info |access-date=June 26, 2014}}

In 2015 University of Split's art gallery was renamed University Gallery "Vasko Lipovac".{{Cite web|title=Otvorena Sveučilišna galerija "Vasko Lipovac" :: HRT – Radio Split|url=https://radio.hrt.hr/radio-split/clanak/otvorena-sveucilisna-galerija-vasko-lipovac/108020/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=radio.hrt.hr|language=hr}}

Image: Atelier_of_Vasko_Lipovac.jpg|Atelier, detail (2005)

Image: Knight_by_Vasko_Lipovac.jpg|Knight (1978), Hotel President, Dubrovnik

Image: Spomenik Drazenu Lausanne.JPG|Dražen Petrović's monument in Olympic Museum Lausanne

Image: Vasko_Lipovac_Perls.jpg|Perls (1996), Rabac, Croatia

Image: Vasko_Lipovac_Red_Flower.jpg|Red Flower (2006), Split, Croatia

Image: Vasko Lipovac Marulic.jpg|Marko Marulić (2006), Vukovar, Croatia

Since the mid-eighties Lipovac has made several highly successful excursions into performing arts and won prestigious Marul award in 1991 for set design.{{cite web|title=Premijere hrvatskih kazališta u 2001. godini |url=http://www.hciti.hr/hr/premijere-hrvatskih-kazalista-u-2001-godini-405 |access-date=September 3, 2016}} His works in theatre include set, costume and puppet designs:

• Homer, L. Paljetak, The Travels of Ulysses, 1984–85, Puppet theater Pionir, Split - puppet and set design{{cite encyclopedia |title=LIPOVAC, Vasko (Vasilije) |url=http://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=11826 |access-date=April 25, 2016 |language=hr |encyclopedia=Hrvatski biografski leksikon |year=2013 |publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža |location=Zagreb }}
• C. Debussy, Toybox, M. Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé, 1985–86, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set and costume design
• M. Vetranović, Kako bratja prodaše Jozefa (How the brothers sold Joseph), 1990, Dubrovnik Summer Festival - set design
• Muka Spasitelja našega (The Passion of our Saviour), 1991, Marulovi dani (Marulo days) - set design{{cite web|title=Marulovi dani 1991 |url=http://www.hnk-split.hr/Marulicevi-dani/Arhiva/Marulovi-dani-1991 |access-date=September 3, 2016}}
• Michel de Ghelderode, Ukleti pjevač (Sire Halewyn), 1991, Split Summer Festival - set design{{Cite news |last=Fiamengo |first=Jakša |date=10 July 1991 |title=Kliškić brani Gripe |language=Croatian |pages=31 |work=Slobodna Dalmacija |location=Split}}
• Nino Škrabe, Plavi Božić (Blue Christmas), 1992, Licem u lice - set design{{Cite news |last=Kudrjavcev |first=Anatolij |date=27 February 1992 |title=Scenska dobrota |language=Croatian |pages=28 |work=Slobodna Dalmacija |location=Split}}
• Mate Matišić, Cinco i Marinko, 1993, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design{{Cite news |last=Fiamengo |first=Jakša |date=23 February 1993 |title=Smrt kao privid |pages=20 |work=Slobodna Dalmacija}}
• Lada Martinac and Snježana Sinovčić, Živim, 1993, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design{{Cite news |last=Kudrjavcev |first=Anatolij |date=3 February 1993 |title=Daska za utapanje |pages=27 |work=Slobodna Dalmacija}}
• I. Tijardović, Mala Floramye (Little Floramye), 2001, Croatian National Theatre in Split - set design
• M. de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 2001, Gradsko kazalište mladih Split - set design

References in popular culture on Vasko Lipovac and his work:

• Brod u boci (1971) - poetry book by Arsen Dedić was inspired by Lipovac's painting of sailor holding a ship in a bottle.{{cite journal |last=Martinović |first=Jovan |date=July 2013 |title=Hommage Vasku Lipovcu |url=http://www.museummaritimum.com/mn/images/stories/jedraboke/2013/JEDRA%20BOKE%20JUL%202013.pdf |language=hr |journal=Jedra Boke |pages=4–5 |access-date=3 July 2014}}
• Kuća na pijesku (1985) - feature film directed by Ivan Martinac was mostly filmed at Lipovac's home in Split.{{Cite web|last=Fradelić|first=Sunčica|date=2021-03-27|title=Kuća na pijesku - 72 kvadrata tišine (3. dio)|url=https://kinoklubsplit.hr/edu/kuca-na-pijesku-72-kvadrata-tisine-3-dio/|access-date=2021-11-12|website=Kino klub Split|language=}}
• Plava murva, beach Girna Pošta on island Hvar (1990) - sculpture made by Ivo Milatić and Milivoj Čubre as an homage to Lipovac. It is made out of the blue painted mulberry driftwood found on the beach, and ritually repainted every year ever since.{{Cite web|last=Crncevic|first=Mirko|date=2020-09-19|title=Slobodna Dalmacija - I Hvar ima 'Plavo stablo', Ivo Milatić, amaterski slikar iz Svirača, nijansom Vaska Lipovca prije 30 godina obojio murvu koju je donijela Neretva|url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/slikarstvo/i-hvar-ima-plavo-stablo-ivo-milatic-amaterski-slikar-iz-sviraca-nijansom-vaska-lipovca-prije-30-godina-obojio-murvu-koju-je-donijela-neretva-1045327|access-date=2020-09-20|website=Slobodna Dalmacija|language=hr-hr}}
• Tako lijepa (2004) - song from the album "Male Stvari" by hip-hop group Elemental.{{cite web|title=Tako lijepa |language=hr |url=http://www.elemental.hr/tako-lijepa.php |access-date=June 4, 2015}}
• Tipkovnice u Zrak (2004) - song by rap group Dječaci (hr).{{cite web|title=Nebu i Drugi – Tipkovnice u Zrak |date=29 August 2009 |language=hr |url=http://djecaci.net/diskografija/nebu-i-drugi-tipkovnice-u-zrak/ |access-date=April 4, 2015}}
• Splitski akvarel(hr) (2009) - award winning experimental short film by Boris Poljak(hr) was inspired by Lipovac's paintings.{{Cite web|last=Andrei Sendrea|date=2016-08-17|title=Splitski Akvarel - Beauty is in the (defect) eye of the beholder|url=https://the5cproject.com/splitski-akvarel-beauty-defect-eye-beholder/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The 5C Project|language=en-US}}
• Just Between Us (2010) - Big Golden Arena winning feature film. Screenwriter Ante Tomić based character of famous painter Matko, played by Vanja Drach, on Lipovac.{{Cite web |last=Tomić |first=Ante |title=Ljubav u doba bolesti |url=https://velikeprice.com/jesi-li-video-ovo/ljubav-u-doba-bolesti/ |website=Velike priče}}{{Cite web |title=HAVC • Katalog hrvatskih filmova |url=https://havc.hr/hrvatski-film/katalog-hrvatskih-filmova/neka-ostane-medju-nama |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=havc.hr |language=en-US}}
• Astrolab za Vaska Lipovca (2011) - poem by Jakša Fiamengo{{Cite book|title=Pčela u jantaru|last=Fiamengo|first=Jakša|publisher=Književni krug|year=2016|isbn=978-953-163-436-6|location=Split|language=hr}}
• Tour de Split (2012) - series of art interventions by Ivan Plazibat marking the spots of Lipovac's lost, destroyed and unrealized public art projects in Split.{{Cite web|last=Mandić-Mušćet|first=Jelena|date=2012-08-27|title=Split kakav je mogao biti|url=https://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/clanak/split-kakav-je-mogao-biti-20120823|access-date=2022-01-10|website=tportal.hr}}
• Nove boje Splita (2014) - art historian Tanja Štignjedec Sulić, expanding on Lipovac's 1970s work in the public art field, proposed community-based urban regeneration project using colorful interventions inspired by artists characteristic palette.
• Throughout 2014 Petar Grimani performed and filmed number of pieces honoring Lipovac's work including performance in Diocletian's Palace in Split{{Cite web|title=Culturenet.hr - Dani otvorenih vrata ateljea Vaska Lipovca|url=https://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=59251|access-date=2021-07-15|website=www.culturenet.hr}} and performance on Piazza del Duomo in Milan using Lipovac’s dove sculpture and video of Verige Strait (Bay of Kotor) inspired by Lipovac's famous painting Verige (currently on display in Presidential Palace in Zagreb).
• An Archive of Stones, to be periodically activated, speculated upon, damaged and finally gilded with fiction (2015) - project by writer and curator Chris Sharp exploring the use of stones in contemporary art. Among the works appearing in the archive is Lipovac's environmental artwork [https://parkdubrova.eu/en/vasko-lipovac-beads-1996/ Pearls on the rock of St. Andrew], located in Rabac.{{Cite web|title=An Archive of Stones, to be periodically activated, speculated upon, damaged and finally gilded with fiction at kim? – Art Viewer|date=14 September 2015 |url=https://artviewer.org/an-archive-of-stones-to-be-periodically-activated-speculated-upon-damaged-and-finally-gilded-with-fiction-at-kim/|access-date=2021-11-04|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=An Archive of Stones, to be periodically activated, speculated upon, damaged and finally gilded with fiction at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/an-archive-of-stones-to-be-periodically-activated-at-kim-contemporary-art-14550|access-date=2021-11-04|website=Contemporary Art Library|language=en}}
• Venem bez..., Split (2017) - graffiti made by unknown author in protest against the removal of the Blue Tree, iron sculpture erected in memory of Vasko Lipovac.{{Cite web|last=Klaric|first=M.|date=2017-10-25|title=Slobodna Dalmacija - 'Venem bez njega': Splićanin pod okriljem noći ostavio emotivni vapaj institucijama kojeg mnogi potpisuju, ne znamo što se čeka?!|url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/venem-bez-njega-splicanin-pod-okriljem-noci-ostavio-emotivni-vapaj-institucijama-kojeg-mnogi-potpisuju-ne-znamo-sto-se-ceka-513711|access-date=2020-09-20|website=Slobodna Dalmacija|language=hr-hr}}{{Cite web|last=Kojundžić Smolčić|first=Anita|date=2015-04-20|title=Priča o Plavom stablu: ovdje neće biti čuda|url=https://arteist.hr/prica-o-plavom-stablu-ovdje-nece-biti-cuda/|access-date=2020-09-20|website=Arteist|language=hr}}
• Cyclists (2018) - animated short by Veljko Popović, awarded at Annecy and Hiroshima, was designed to pay homage to Lipovac.{{cite journal |last=Davies |first=Katie |date=2 July 2018 |title=Cyclists: Watch the award-winning{{sic|hide=y}} film inspired by Croatian artist Vasko Lipovac |url=https://www.calvertjournal.com/news/show/10438/cyclists-watch-award-winnng-film-inspired-by-croatian-artist-vasko-lipovac |journal=The Calvert Journal |access-date=31 August 2018}}
• Tereza37 (2020) - Big Golden Arena winning feature film. At the initiative of Lana Barić, one of the modular sculptures used during Lipovac's famous 1974. intervention in [https://www.moma.org/collection/works/273901 Braće Borozan Street], was recreated for the film set.{{Cite web|title=HAVC • Croatian film catalogue|url=https://www.havc.hr/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/tereza37|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.havc.hr}}
• Nulti krajolik (2020) - award winning hybrid film (mixing documentary, fiction and experimental film with video art and performance) directed by Bruno Pavić.{{Cite web|last=Njegić|first=Marko|date=2021-09-16|title=Slobodna Dalmacija - 'Nulti krajolik': Splitska apokalipsa između Lipovca i Tarkovskog|url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/film-tv/splitski-filmski-festival-otvoren-pricom-bruna-pavica-o-suzivotu-ljudi-i-industrije-u-kastelanskom-zaljevu-i-vranjicu-zasto-ga-vrijedi-pogledati-1127796|access-date=2021-11-12|website=slobodnadalmacija.hr|language=hr-hr}}
• Priča o Plavom stablu (2021) - picture book by Anita Kojundžić Smolčić and Hana Lukas Midžić{{Cite web|last=Leskur Staničić|first=Jasenka|date=2021-06-17|title=Slobodna Dalmacija - Anita i Hana su autorice sjajne slikovnice: 'Plavo stablo' izazivalo je reakcije ljudi i to je nešto što ostaje! Jako je važno za djecu da to osjete kao dio svog kulturnog identiteta|url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/knjizevnost/anita-i-hana-su-autorice-sjajne-slikovnice-plavo-stablo-izazivalo-je-reakcije-ljudi-i-to-je-nesto-sto-ostaje-jako-je-vazno-za-djecu-da-to-osjete-kao-dio-svog-kulturnog-identiteta-1106542|access-date=2021-06-18|website=slobodnadalmacija.hr|language=hr-hr}}

Lipovac was honored with numerous awards:{{cite book| title=Erotika|url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics| last=Tomić| first=Ante| year=2008 |publisher=Profil International d.d| location= Zagreb| page=365 | isbn=978-953-12-0802-4}}

• 1968 5th Zadar Blue Salon Purchase Award
• 1968 Cetinje Salon Award
• 1969 Herceg Novi Winter Salon Award
• 1970 NIP Slobodna Dalmacija Annual Award
• 1971 6th Zagreb Salon Sculpture Award
• 1971 3rd Split Salon Sculpture Award
• 1972 Večernji List Purchase Award at the 7th Yugoslav Graphic Arts Exhibition in Zagreb
• 1974 Purchase Award at the 8th Yugoslav Graphic Arts Exhibition in Zagreb
• 1974 Purchase Award at the 1st Biennale of Contemporary Croatian Graphic Arts in Split
• 1975 Honorary Mention at the 2nd Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota
• 1975 7th Split Salon Sculpture Award
• 1977 Grigor Vitez Illustration Award, Zagreb{{cite web|title=Nagrada "Grigor Vitez" |language=hr |url=http://www.kgz.hr/default.aspx?id=7439 |access-date=July 29, 2014}}
• 1978 Sculpture Award at the 7th Mediterranean Biennale in Alexandria
• 1979 City of Split Award
• 1981 Purchase Award at the Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota
• 1986 Emanuel Vidović Prize at the Split Salon
• 1987 Grand Honorary Mention at the 7th Yugoslav Biennale of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota
• 1988 Third Triennial of Croatian Sculpture Award{{cite book |title=Treći trijenale hrvatskoga kiparstva |url=http://thk.hazu.hr/hr/katalog/treci-trijenale#/50/zoomed |editor-last= Mohorovičić |editor-first=Andro | year=1988 |language=hr |publisher=Gliptoteka Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti |location=Zagreb }}
• 1991 Marul Award for set design{{cite web|title=Marulovi dani 1991 |url=http://www.hnk-split.hr/Marulicevi-dani/Arhiva/Marulovi-dani-1991 |access-date=July 29, 2014}}
• 1993 Purchase Award for the monument to King Petar Krešimir IV in Šibenik
• 1993 MTG Award at the 14th Zagreb Exhibition of Drawings
• 1995 First prize for the monument to Dražen Petrović at Olympic Museum, Lausanne
• 1996 Split Salon Award
• 1997 Award of the Croatian Watercolor Festival in Zagreb
• 1998 2nd prize for the monument to Marko Marulić in Zagreb
• 2003 Split Graphic Arts Biennale Award
• 2004 Grand Prix of the 3rd Croatian Watercolor Triennale in Karlovac
• 2006 Slobodna Dalmacija Lifetime Achievement Award in Split

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• {{Cite book|last=Šimat Banov |first=Ive |title=Vasko Lipovac |year=2001|publisher=Art studio Azinović |location=Zagreb |isbn=978-953-6271-39-9}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Maković |first1=Zvonko |last2=Medić |first2=Ana |title=Vasko Lipovac: retrospektiva |year=2017 |publisher=Galerija Klovićevi dvori |location=Zagreb |isbn=978-953-271-104-2}}

• {{Official website|http://www.vaskolipovac.com/}}
• [http://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org Vasko Lipovac at Google Open Gallery]
• [http://www.googleartproject.com/artist/vasko-lipovac/4125367/ Google Art Project - Olympic Museum Laussane, works of Vasko Lipovac]
• [http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/vasko_lipovac_erotics Vasko Lipovac "Erotics", book]
• [http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/graphic_games "Graphic Games" - Catalog of the Exhibition, Split, October 2007.]
• [http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Hrvatska/tabid/66/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3964/Default.aspx Presentation of a Gallery "Vasko Lipovac", newspaper "Slobodna Dalmacija"]
• [http://www.msu.hr/#/en/13357/search/ Vasko Lipovac - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb]
• [http://athena.muo.hr/?object=linked&c2o=15945 Vasko Lipovac - Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb]
• [http://www.mgi.hr/uploads/images/albumi/odjeli_i_zbirke/galerijski_odjel/ART_6571.jpg Vasko Lipovac - Ilok Town Museum]
• [http://mvup.muzej-vukovar.hr/en/Predmet/2338/3 Vasko Lipovac - Municipal Museum, Vukovar]
• [http://nmz.hr/files/g/4-4/1200x900-2/026-vasko-lipovac-1.jpg Vasko Lipovac - National Museum Zadar]
• [http://www.museummaritimum.com/eng/ulazni%20hol.htm Vasko Lipovac - Entrance hall of the Maritime Museum of Montenegro in Kotor]
• [https://parkdubrova.eu/en/vasko-lipovac-beads-1996/ Vasko Lipovac - Dubrova Sculpture Park]

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