- The associative phase represents the artist’s most creative period, which began in 1960 and lasted until 1985.
- This new stage in Konjović’s work was defined by partial abandonment of the subject matter, transposition of composition, shape, colour, and form; where what is seen becomes only a stimulus
- In 1985 Konjović’s work was crowned with an anthological retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palais Gallery in Paris.
- Two years later, Konjović held a retrospective exhibition at the Fine Artists Union Gallery in Moscow, USSR
