Mladen Josic was a prominent Serbian painter. Beginning of Josic artistic expression was marked by French painter Paul Cezanne and Cubism, and later realism. Mladen Josic  opened his own art school in Kolarac, which have grown many painters, including Mladen Srbinovic, Matija Vukovic, Stojan Celic, Majda Kurnik, Miodrag B. Protic and many others. In the early fifties he moved to Paris in exile, where he died in 1972.