Mika Antić
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Miroslav "Mika" Antić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Мика Антић) (March 14, 1932 – June 24, 1986) was Serbian poet, journalist and painter. Antić was born in Mokrin, Vojvodina, Serbia (then Yugoslavia).
He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries. Mika also acted in several movies, and was an amateur painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in World War II and describes the beauty of Srem using "bećarac" song form. He is well known as a bohemian.
Mika Antić is best known as a children and youth poet, a master of delicate and gentle sentiments.
His paintings are garnering greater attention and have been featured any several galleries recently. For example, they were shown at the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada in 2007. His art was also featured in an ad in Art News that same year.
[edit] Bohemian lifestyle
His bohemian, hard-drinking lifestyle is best illustrated by a barely translatable pun about him:
- "Čika Jova deci, čika Mika Antić dva deci"
"Čika Jova deci" meaning "Mister Jova to the children", referring to Jova Zmaj, a known children's poet. "Čika Mika Antić dva deci" means "Mister Mika Antić two deciliters", referring to drinking from a glass, likely of alcohol.
