THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

Maruxa
Mallo
Ana María Gómez González

Biography
Naceu:
Primeiros anos:
· Maruxa Mallo was born on January 5th 1902 in
Viveiro.
· She was the fourth daughter of fourteen children
born to Justo Gómez Mallo and María del Pilar
González Lorenzo.
· She died on February 6th 1995 in Madrid.

Biography (Studies)
· In 1913 the family moved to Avilés (Asturias)
· In 1922 she entered the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts in Madrid.
· In 1927 her mother died.
· In 1920 she worked on numerous publications.
· And she organized her first exhibition in 1928.

The art of wonder
THE SURREALISM
lifestyle and influence on others artists…
Surrealism is an artist movement, founded
in 1944 by the French writer André Breton,
who made the surreal Manifest.
· Surrealism is known for the
representations of fantasies and dreams, as
well as irrationality.
· This movement explored the worlds of
feelings and desire.

Geometry
As you can see in
Maruxa Mallo’s
drawings:
· Geometry and
symmetry are very
important

Internal order
· She was a
great
cartoonist

Her career can be divided in 5
periods:
1st PERIOD:
· Vivid colours, geometric style and
critical point of view towards the
role of women in society
2nd PERIOD:
Surrealism, dark colours, drawings
show a rotten perspective of life
“La verbena”, 1927
Artistic career

Artistic career
3rd PERIOD:
· Vivid colours again
4th PERIOD:
· American period, natural
style, symmetry
5th PERIOD:
· Surrealism represented by
cosmic items, for instance,
spaceships
Naturaleza viva, 1945

‘’Protoesquema’’
· 1980
· Oil on canvas
Characteristics:
Blue colours
Abstract

‘’Máscaras’’
· 1942
· Oil on canvas
Characteristics:
Blue and brown colours
Expressionism

‘’El racimo de uvas’’
· 1944
· Oil on canvas
Characteristics:
Red and blue colours
Surrealism

Other masterpieces

Laura García
Olaya Rodríguez
Anxo Varela
Nuria Villanueva
The End

Etwinning project : Famous artists through my eyes!
Presentation title: ADEM KASTRATI AND HIS GREATNESS THROUGH MY EYES!
Presented by: Nazife Iseni
Mentor: Arlinda Kastrati
Municipal primary school: ,,25 Maj''-Skopje
Accademic year: 2020/2021

Biography
•Adem Kastrati (above) lived quiet, peaceful and progressive periods, but not infrequently encountered complex
and turbulent time situations, followed by events, riots and occupations during his life. And at one point the
situation culminated in the bloody war that the Albanian people in Kosovo experienced in the late twentieth
century. He changed his citizenship four times, becoming a citizen of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Kingdom of
Albania , the communist Yugoslavia and finally the Republic of Macedonia . His life biography, however, would be
better reflected through the description of sequences and narratives about his biography, background, and schooling
journey. The painter and pedagogue of fine arts, literary creator, collector, marker and publisher of the popular
treasury, analyst of Albanian-Slavic and European relations, Adem Kastrati, was born in 1933 in the village
of Karachevo , Dardana , Kosovo , in a large generous family. , with patriotic and educational activities. His family
was known from his father on this side, but also from his mother Dajkoc . His uncle, Metush Krasniqi , was
imprisoned for many years for his patriotic activities for the rights of Albanians in the former Yugoslavia . The truth
that he was a supporter of the idea of ​uncle Metush Krasniqi , the secret serviceYugoslav pursued him all his life
and prevented Adem Kastrati in his hometown, Ferizaj , Kastriot , Skopje , Dubrovnikand wherever he lived and
acted. Even in his confidential conversations and paintings he was convinced that the family is the nucleus of a
comfortable society, so he sensitively and artistically painted the scenes when the mother was devoted with flesh
and soul to the child, home and family, mahogany, family and scenes others. The themes he elaborates in his works
are mostly related to the common man. He gives a special emphasis to the mother, whom he presents as the
housekeeper. The mother, the wife, is the one who gives meaning to life, seeks, but also gives sweetness, love,
kindness

•Painter with his children
in atelier 1989 (earth
color on fabric 81x65 cm)
Krushqi in winter 1977 (soil color
on fabric 66x80 cm)
Maga 1989 (earth color on fabric
80x65 cm)

Origins
•Adem Kastrati comes from a large rural family in terms of number, but medium in terms of
social status. As a young man, he has expressed interest in his family background, having
heard many times from older people about the branching of the family tree. From his father,
Ramiz, the painter has learned that he himself belongs to the seventh generation of their
family. In addition to agriculture and livestock, he occasionally engaged in trade.

KASTRATI - large and educated family
•This family, trying to earn a living through honest work, did not neglect the education of its younger generations. From an early
age, some of the young people in this family were on their way to school. Adem Kastrati spent his childhood in his hometown,
surviving several different political regimes of the time. His birthplace, Karacheva, like the whole of Kosovo, was under the
regime of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Versailles, then for a time under the Bulgarian and Italian occupiers. This was the time
when within the Kastrati family, a great desire and interest for education arose. The first educated people of Adem Kastrati's
family were his uncle, Tefiku and his father's cousin, Ibrahimi, who had been educated since the time of the Yugoslav
Kingdom . Then, the path of schooling was continued by Adem's sister, Nazmije Reka-Kastrati (mother of Prof. Dr. Blerim Reka ,
and speaker Drita Reka-Gërmizaj) who started working as a teacher in 1947. This path was later followed by others. According to
Adem's autobiographical notes, it is learned that his closest family in Upper Karachevountil recently, only his stepfather's brother,
Sabriu, remained with his immediate family, while other members of the Kastrati family moved
to Gjilan , Ferizaj , Prishtina , Gjakova , and elsewhere. While of them, only Ademi chose Skopje to live forever, where he started
his family with his wife Lemanen, leaving behind three children: sons, Artan, Ardian and daughter, Artiana.

Adem Kastrati with his family in 1979

SCHOOLING
•Adem Kastrati's schooling journey is also a story in itself. His schooling, not only has lasted a little longer than it should, but, at
the same time, he has been accompanied by various problems, difficulties and vicissitudes. More for economic reasons, but
sometimes also for political reasons, as the painter himself has stated, more than once he has been forced to drop out of school
and is sometimes expelled from school. in Adem's life was played by a very important moment that happened in 1942, when for
the first time he came across an Albanian book. Indeed, in the autumn of that distant year, the Primer entered his house for the
first timein Albanian, which, along with several other books, had been brought to him by his uncle, Tefiku. Adem Kastrati had the
good fortune to attend primary school exactly during the years when in those parts of Kosovo , as in all Albanian lands, were
distributed the teachers of the first generations who had come out of the Normal of Elbasan . The first teachers are the most
deserving who during the 40s of the XX century, planted and spread Albanian education throughout the Albanian lands. Adem's
first teacher was Mehmet Turani from Elbasan, which was characterized by pedantry and seriousness at work. Although Kastrati
had been taught by some other teachers, the best impression was left by teacher Mehmet himself, for whom he said: "None of
them could approach teacher Mehmet culturally". Even high school did not pass without difficulties, and for this reason Ademi
was forced to change several high schools and wander from one city to another, starting
from Gjilan , Peja , Gjakova and Prishtina . Just like he finished high school in Kosovo , he completed his higher education
in Skopje

View from the opening of the exhibition in 1986 in Mazara Del
Vallo, Sicily. Here are seen Mr. Sherafedin Mustafa, z. Adem
Kastrati, z. Ali Podrimja and Mr. Sedngjell Sedaj.

The first sparks of fine art talent
•His talent, Adem Kastrati has manifested it since he was a child, expressing it through modeling and drawing
on the colorful mud tiles of his hometown. But, he has shown his real talent in the elementary school benches
by showing interest in artistic subjects: poetry, music, but it is understood that he is more distinguished as a
talented illustrator. Regarding his first contacts with fine arts, Kastrati talks about his first pencil drawings,
which the teacher, Mehmet Turani, always praised in front of the students. Then he remembers another
moment related to his talent, when he as an elementary school student had drawn in pencil the portrait of his
grandfather. In addition to various traditional games played by children, quite a favorite for them has been,
especially, the mud game that the village streamKaracheva had it in abundance. "With the mud in different
colors we made pictures of humans, animals, animals and birds, but more often I modeled the dove
flying. "From that mud I made tiles on which I sketched various figures", Kastrati recalls. And so, slowly, the
painter was appropriated by the world of mud drawing and modeling, and day by day it became clear that he
had a future in the field of art. Drawing subject in Gjakova Normalwas given by the teacher, Lirie Tanefi,
who never gave Kastrati the highest grade. but that note noted in the subject of drawing by the teacher,
Tanefi, he always has experienced it as biased and unfair to him. "She did not believe that I made the
drawings myself. "My teacher was not satisfied because she thought that I had allegedly copied a work by
the painter, orgorjee Andrejeviiq - Kun", the painter declared in the press of the time.

Adem Kastrati in the makeshift studio in his apartment

Painting studies in Skopje
•Initially he wanted to study the Albanian language and literature, but the circumstances created influenced him to
record the fine arts. In September 1954/55, he submitted the documents for registration in the Albanian language
branch at the Higher Pedagogical School in Skopje.. Since only two candidates were presented in this branch and it
was impossible to form a group, Kastrati does not have the desire to register in this direction. But, upon learning by
chance that there were vacancies only in the branch of fine arts, then the painter undergoes and successfully passes
the entrance exam and thus becomes a student of fine arts. With his introduction to the Higher Pedagogical School
in Skopje, Adem Kastrati, for the first time will learn what were the drawing techniques, how to color, or how to
model a sculpture. Kastrati was lucky enough to receive lessons from drawing, painting and modeling, and art
history from his professors, also well-known Macedonian artists, such as: Vangell Koxhoman, Ljupco Stefanovski
and Dimce Koco, during his studies at the Pedagogical Academy. Of all the subjects, the most difficult for Kastrati
has been the subject of art history, especially the period of ancient art and medieval art. Over time, the more he
entered the world of fine arts, the more he became interested in perfecting himself professionally, so he did not lack
ambitions, nor the direct efforts undertaken in the direction of further education.

•Meeting with the painter Hegedusic in Zagreb in 1959, Adem Kastrati had competed at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade , where
according to him, although he was accepted, because he did not win the right to a scholarship and not to leave it bad family, he
relinquishes this opportunity. A few years later he claims that although he had secured a scholarship from a local factory, even
this time he could not be admitted to the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.. But, Kastrati, did not stop looking for other
opportunities to improve professionally by knocking on the doors of the academies of that time. Three years later, he established
contacts with the famous Croatian painter Krsto Hegedusic, whom he later visited in Zagreb.. In the Croatian capital, Kastrati, he
traveled in January 1962, taking with him five paintings made in the technique of earth color on fabric, which he showed to
Professor Hegeduushiiq. The Croatian painter had waited for him in his studio, and after looking closely at the paintings he
received and wrote a letter, which he addressed to the then well-known art critic, Oto Bihali-Merin, who at that time was in
charge of culture in the former Yugoslav Federation. Hegedusic also verbally told Kastrati that he had written to his friend Bihali
Merin to enable him to enroll in postgraduate studies at the Institute of Culture in Belgrade. Now it remains to provide financial
means for the studies because they are expensive to afford, so I wrote to comrade Bihali Merin to provide you with a
scholarship," said Hegedusic. As instructed by the famous painter, Hegedusic, Adem Kastrati goes to Belgrade, to Oto Bihali -
Merin. After Oto Bihali read the letter, he then addressed the painter: “Comrade, Kastrati, we can not help you with what you are
looking for, because you are from Kosovo, and that this assistance should be provided by the Kosovo Education and Culture
Council ”. Meanwhile, that also inPristina from a Montenegrin official, Kastrati had received a negative response, arguing that
within the Council in question is not provided a special fund for postgraduate studies. But despite his failure to pursue further
studies, Ademi still devotes himself more to painting, and so, with unprecedented perseverance and ascetic devotion, he
succeeded in establishing a respected name in the circles. of fine arts both at home and abroad.

Logo of the High School of Visual Arts in Gjilan, where this
school is named after the greatest Albanian painter Adem
Kastrati.

Teaching
•Adem Kastrati's creative activity is inseparably associated with his work as a teacher. For thirty-five years in a row working
in education, that is, until his early retirement in 1986, Adem Kastrati, as a guide, served the message of the director of the
Normal of Gjakova , Beqir Kastrati: “Boy, you are going to open the eyes of our millet. You teachers will go to work in
those villages where they probably do not even have pine for light. You will be the ones to enlighten them. Never forget that
the children you will have in front of you will be your brothers and sisters. "If you do not think so, you are not a teacher." I
first picked up the diary in April 1950, when he was just eighteen years old, and started working as a teacher in the village
school of Koretin. To continue for several years in a row as a teacher in primary schools in Kosovo , in the vicinity
of Kamenica , Gjilan , Ferizaj , Obiliq , then in the villages: Zhegër ,Strezoc , Rogoçica , Muçivërc , and later to be
completed in some of the settlements around Skopje . A very important moment for Adem Kastrati undoubtedly represents
the year 1959, since for the first time then he starts working as a teacher of fine arts in a village of Ferizaj. However, since
his uncle, Metush Krasniqi , was politically imprisoned, pressure from the Yugoslav police force increased on the painter. It
is not too late when in the school year 1960/61 Adem Kastrati for the first time passes as a teacher in the primary school of
the village Rashce in Skopje. Since then he will be more strongly committed to painting. While working in Rashçe , in an
improvised studio in the small room of the mejtep of the village mosque, he had made 25 oil paintings, with which he had
then opened one of his first exhibitions. In the school year 1961/62, Kastrati once again became a teacher in Ferizaj, where
he continues to paint even more with dedication. From that year, when he discovered the technique of painting with earth
colors, his artistic construction and pilgrimage begins, becoming a respected name in the world of Albanian figurative art
and beyond.

•And so, Kastrati finally concentrates his work as a teacher in Skopje . After working as a
teacher for several years in Studenicani , at the end of August 1967, he was admitted to the
Primary School "Liria" in Skopje . Meanwhile, at the beginning of the school year 1968/69, he
was hired for the first time as a teacher at the Skopje Normal School.. Although some of the
"committee members" of the time strongly opposed Adem's admission to the Skopje Normal
School, but still, thanks to the insistence of the school principal, Qemal Musliu, a former
partisan, he was accepted as a professor in the only high school in Albanian in the city
of Skopje . In this school, which later from Normalja is transformed into the Gymnasium "Zef
Lush Marku" , Kastrati, has worked for 20 years in a row. In 1986 he retired prematurely, due
to kidney disease, but also due to the persecution of UDB , which did not like his paintings in
red and black, associated with the Albanian national flag and the drawing of Gjergj Kastriot
Skënderbeu. Yugoslav police forces threatened Adem Kastrati with expulsion or imprisonment,
but seeing that time was tragic for the Albanians under the fascist occupation of the Slavs,
Adem Kastrati finally decided to retire early.

a letter written by Adem Kastrati
to his friend

Paintings
•Cranberry Paintings based on the tradition of realistic mimeticism, presents direct sequences of the figure of man and the
animalistic world, usually in accordance with their similarities and visual illusions. Starting from the context of the institutional
mission of painting, Kastrati uses the possibilities of this figurative genre as a social practice of exchanging and interpreting the
values ​of the image, which come as real performances or as visual constructions. His paintings, as a complex presentation system,
through a sensitive-emergency discourse set in motion the practices of production, presentation, acceptance, consumption and
interpretation of two-dimensional surfaces in function of the visual representation of the real or imaginary world. Through the rich
themes and various motives, the rich color adapted to the idea and the aesthetic-figurative concept is expressed, as well as the
characteristics of the artistic and stylistic specifics in his creativity are realized. The color in many paintings, over time, is
perfected and reaches full maturity, becomes more demanding, more compact, why not even more intense and brighter. Figurative
realizations through this color achieve metaphorical premises, with precise symbolic transpositions, described mainly by (bi)
chromatic and polychromatic wholes. The use of eroded lines in painting appears as a continuous element which enriches the
texture that the painter uses by putting them in coherence with other figurative elements, which together enrich and consolidate
the figurative language, and his painting. make it more meaningful.

•His paintings made with this technique are anthological, such as: "Little drawers", "My village in the fog", "In
winter", "In the mill", "My village", "Teahouse", "Magic", " Shepherd "," Beggar "," Mother with child ","
Breastfeeding "," Women bathing "," Hospitality "," Dinner ",the Kosovo war 1998-1999, while his paintings made
with motifs of popular legends are: "Holy Bridge", "Sister with nine brothers", "Hardened Krushqi".

Drawings
•Although the drawing seems to be in the background, however, it should be noted that
Kastrati, with special care and mastery has cultivated this figurative genus. The drawing,
which this painter has constantly researched and perfected, in his creativity is presented in a
dual function, ie as a figurative genre in itself, but also as a accompanying component of the
painting, thus putting them in equal ratio and function. line with color. By realizing a more
reliable relationship through color-line symbiosis, Kastrati has benefited from the construction
of a very rich artistic form in his creativity.

Motives
Motives represent visual forms of thematic content. He has painted most of the motifs
according to the models of traditional figurative iconography, starting from the landscape,
interior, portrait, self-portrait, act, quiet nature, animalism, architecture, caricature, etc. Adem
Kastrati's works are dominated by family motives, which he incorporates with a rare
sensitivity in the presentation of the village, the land, animals and especially the mother's care
for children. Through indigenous motifs related to the village and the birthplace he revealed
moments filled with existential issues. In particular he treats the "peasant", this being
according to him "direct", which gives meaning to life and which for the painter was always
the same: as when he moves, as when he works, as when he sings lullabies for her child in the
cradle. The women in his motifs have characteristic features with big eyes and full of story and
dreams inside them, which for the painter were mirrors of the soul. Meanwhile, men look
heavy, because, according to the painter, this is their tradition. They are heavy both when
walking, and when they sit cross-legged, and when they work, and when they dance at
weddings, which for the painter were their physical beauty.

Creativity
•Adem Kastrati's creativity is very rich artistically, very wide numerically and even more geographically
distributed. Its development has been accompanied by a very intense dynamic, experiencing continuous artistic
growth. And what should be distinguished, has to do with the fact that, his creativity is largely expressed through
two figurative genres: painting and drawing. Being a very active and very productive artist, researcher and
innovator, through his works he became a visual designer of the past, but also a witness of great events of the most
recent Albanian national history. His creativity raised him to a protagonist who did not go unnoticed by the public
and especially by the eye of critics. To create a clearer picture of the development of his creativity, we will discuss
in more detail the technique and technology of drawing and painting, the effects of color, as well as the reflection of
the development of his artistic creativity through several stages. Adem Kastrati worked permanently and with an
unparalleled fanaticism and will. He spent his whole life looking for new forms and techniques, aimed at his
individuality as a creator and managed to be as rare as anyone else. Even the painter Bukurie Dalladaku remembers
Adem Kastrati aimed prore his individuality as a creator and managed to as rarely any other be special.

Paintings donated to important world personalities
•Among the most famous personalities to whom he has donated paintings are: former US
President Bill Clinton , former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright , former British
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook , etc. The painter made this gesture on the occasion of the
opening of the exhibition with themes from the Kosovo war. It is also known that the painter
Adem Kastrati donated the painting to the Albanian institutions in Macedonia , and that, to the
Theater of Nationalities in Skopje , he donated the portrait of Naim Frashëri to the Department
of Albanian Language and Literature in Skopje, to the "Flaka" editorial office and five
paintings collection of the Museum in Sicily, as well as many family, friends and admirers of
his art.

Second hand oil painting technique
•The works of the earliest phase prove that, Adem Kastrati, initially painted with oil paints, and
that he practiced this technique throughout his artistic career. The considerable number of oil
paintings mainly on fabric, shows that he has cultivated this technique and has constantly
perfected it both in terms of technology and color. From time to time, in various exhibitions,
Kastrati was presented with creativity dominated by oil paintings on canvas. The paintings
made in the oil technique initially contained somewhat more limited color, but over time it
becomes clearer and more impressive. The color is distinguished by a more pronounced
brightness which consists of the painter's tendency for similarity and adaptability to the
selected theme and motif.

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Joaquín Sorolla
The master of light

Bibliography
Joaquín Sorolla Bastida
Born in Valencia, 27 February
1863
He died in Cercedilla, near
Madrid, 10 August 1923
Was a Spanish painter.
A prolific artist, he left more
than 2200 listed works.
He got married in 1888

ARTISTIC
MOVEMENT

IMPRESSIONISM
Origin in France
XIX century
LUMINISM
Play with light through paint

SOME OF HIS WORKS

‘’El Balandrito’’
- 1909
- Title in English: ‘’The little yacht’’
- This picture is inspired in El
Cabañal beach in Valencia
- Oil on canvas
- Characteristics:
- The kid is at the top of the picture
and he is surrounded by waves
- Different shades of blues
- He used thick lines for closeness and
thin lines for distance
- Light reflects on the moving surface
of the water

“El baño del
caballo”, 1909
- This picture is
inspired in classical
Greece
-Oil on canvas
-205 x 250 cm
-Postimpresionism
-Characteristics:
- Shadows and
colours

Etwinning project : Famous artists through my eyes!
Presentation title: Michelangelo!
Presented by: Blina Imeri, IX-1
Mentor: Arlinda Kastrati
Municipal primary school: ,,25 Maj''-Skopje
Accademic year: 2020/2021

Who Was
Michelangelo Buonarroti was a
painter, sculptor, architect and
poet widely considered one of the
most brilliant artists of the Italian
Renaissance. Michelangelo was an
apprentice to a painter before
studying in the sculpture gardens of
the powerful Medici family.
Michelangelo?
What followed was a remarkable
career as an artist, famed in his own
time for his artistic
virtuosity. Although he always
considered himself a Florentine,
Michelangelo lived most of his life in
Rome, where he died at age 88.

Biography & Early life
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni known simply as Michelangelo was born on
March 6 1475 in Caprese, Italy, the second of five sons.
When Michelangelo was born, his father, Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni, was briefly
serving as a magistrate in the small village of Caprese. The family returned to Florence when
Michelangelo was still an infant.
His mother, Francesca Neri, was ill, so Michelangelo was placed with a family of
stonecutters, Indeed,Michelangelo was less interested in schooling than watching the painters
at nearby churches and drawing what he saw.It may have been his grammar school friend,
Francesco Granacci,six years senior,who introduced Michelangelo to Domenico Ghirlandaio.
His father realized early on that his son had no interest in the family financial business, so he
agreed to apprentice him, at the age of 13, to Ghirlandaio and the Florentine
painter's fashionable workshop. There, Michelangelo was exposed to the technique of fresco
(a mural painting technique where pigment is placed directly on fresh, or wet, lime plaster).
Although Michelangelo's brilliant mind and copious talents earned him the regard and
patronage of the wealthy and powerful men of Italy.He wanted to have everything in
perefection and had a quick tempor.This not only got Michelangelo into trouble, it created a
pervasive dissatisfaction for the painter, who constantly strived for perfection but was unable
to compromise.

'Pieta‘
Soon after Michelangelo's move to
Rome in 1498, the cardinal Jean
Bilhères de Lagraulas, a
representative of the French King
Charles VIII to the pope,
commissioned "Pieta," a sculpture of
Mary holding the dead Jesus across
her lap.
It is the only piece Michelangelo
ever signed. It is also the only known
sculpture created by a prominent
name from the Renaissance era that
was installed in St. Peter's Basilica
that was accepted by the Chapter
of St. Peter.
This famous work of art depicts the
body of Jesus on the lap of his
mother Mary after

'David'
Between 1501 and 1504,
Michelangelo took over a
commission for a statue of "David,"
which two prior sculptors had
previously attempted and
abandoned, and turned the 17-foot
(5.1meters) piece of marble into a
dominating figure.
The strength of the statue's sinews,
vulnerability of its nakedness,
humanity of expression and overall
courage made the "David" a highly
prized representative of the city of
Florence.
Originally commissioned for the
cathedral of Florence, the Florentine
government instead installed the

Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in
the Apostolic Palace, the official
residence of the pope, in Vatican
City. Originally known as
the Cappella Magna ('Great
Chapel'), the chapel takes its
name from Pope Sixtus IV, who
restored it between 1473 and
1481. Since that time, the chapel
has served as a place of both
religious and functionary papal
activity.
Between 1508 and 1512, under
the patronage of Pope Julius II,
Michelangelo painted the
chapel's ceiling, a project which
changed the course of Western
art and is regarded as one of the

'Last Judgment'
The Last Judgment is
a painting covering the whole altar wall
of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
Altogether there are over 300 figures,
with nearly all the males and angels
originally shown as nudes; many were
later partly covered up by painted
draperies, of which some remain after
recent cleaning and restoration.
The work took over four years to
complete between 1536 and 1541
(preparation of the altar wall began in
1535). Michelangelo began working on
it twenty-five years after having finished
the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and was
nearly 67 at its completion. In the lower
part of the fresco, Michelangelo
followed tradition in showing the saved
ascending at the left and the damned

Architectu
re
Although Michelangelo continued to sculpt and paint throughout his life,
following the physical rigor of painting the Sistine Chapel he turned his focus
toward architecture.
He continued to work on the tomb of Julius II, which the pope had interrupted
for his Sistine Chapel commission, for the next several decades. Michelangelo
also designed the Medici Chapel and the Laurentian Library — located
opposite the Basilica San Lorenzo in Florence — to house the Medici book
collection. These buildings are considered a turning point in architectural
history.
But Michelangelo's crowning glory in this field came when he was made chief
architect of St. Peter's Basilica in 1546.

Colmeiro, the galician countryside painter

Manuel Colmeiro Guimarás
Biography
(1901-1999)
● He traveled to Buenos Aires.
● He studied and worked a lot.
● He met important people.
● He married Emilia González in 1929
and had a daughter.
● He received important awards.

Artistic career
He emigrated to Buenos
Aires, where he studied in
an academy of fine arts and
he worked with famous
painters.
His first exhibition was in
1928, after he returned to
Galicia.
During the Spanish civil
War, he had to go back to
Argentina.
Then he came back to
Galicia in 1960
and he became a member of
“Os Renovadores”, a group
that discussed important
issues on Galicia.

ART MOVEMENT
- The main subject of his work
focuses are landscapes and scenes
of popular Galician culture.
- Colmeiro created a style that
combines various international
influences with a primitivist
realism of synthesised forms.
- He was part of the group known as
“Os Renovadores”, made up of
painters born at the beginning of
the 20th century such as Seoane,
Laxeiro, Arturo Souto and Maside.
Colmeiro stands out for his
intimacy and the lyrical concept of
atmospheres, being considered the
most traditional member of the
group.

Analysis of a painting by Manuel Colmeiro I
In this painting you can see
people working on the beach.
The painter uses delicate
colours.
You can see harmony between the
people and the beach.
Dimensions: 89 x 116 x 0
Technique: Oil on canvas
“Fishermen”, 1973
Roberto

Analysis of a painting by Manuel Colmeiro II
- Within the framework of the new
avant-gardes, Colmeiro already created in
the late 1950s a new iconography related to
the work of women in traditional peasant
life. One of these jobs is Lavandeiras
(‘Washerwomen’).
- In this painting these women are
represented from a minimal definition in
their forms, disappearing the lines that
previously gave them volume and immersed in
a space that is not real.
- Here, colour is in charge of building the
forms, something that is accentuated by
dispensing with the representation of the
facial features or the details of the
clothes.
Title: Lavandeiras
Year of creation: 1967
Technique: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height = 51 cm; Width = 65 cm

LAXEIRO
Lalín’s local painter

José Otero Abeledo, nicknamed LAXEIRO
HE WAS BORN:
- February 23, 1908 Donramiro (Spain)
HE DIED IN:
- July 21, 1996 (88 years old) Vigo (Spain)

Artistic career:
- In 1934, Laxeiro had his first
exhibition at the University
of Santiago. Many important
works were shown there.
- In 1935 he held other
exhibitions in Pontevedra.
- In 1937 he went to the
Spanish Civil War. He didn’t
stop drawing during the war.
- In 1950 he went to Buenos
Aires.
- Laxeiro continued to draw
despite the death of his 2
wives.

Laxerio: Laxeiro, together Artistic with style Luis
Seoane, Manuel Colmeiro,
Carlos Maside and others,
form the group of “Os
renovadores” (The restorers)
In Laxeiro’s paintings the lines
are thick and everything is
usually very cramped. He
used intense, lively colours
like yellow, red, etc.
...

OUR SCHOOL HAS 2 PICTURES OF LAXEIRO AT ITS
PREMISES

OUR SCHOOL (I.E.S LAXEIRO)

One piece of work : Reunión na lareira
-THIS ARE A ICONIC PICTURE FOR THE ART

THE END

ETWINNING PROJECT
FAMOUS PAINTERS THROUGH MY EYES
PABLO
PICASSO
Presented by:MEDIN ELEZ
Mentor:ARLINDA KASTRATI
Municipal school ,,25 Maj''-Skopje
Accademic year 2020/2021

Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, famous
for paintings like ‘Guernica’ and for the art movement known as Cubism.
Who Was Pablo Picasso?
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer
considered one of the greatest and most
influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso
is credited, along with Georges Braque, with
the creation of Cubism.
Early Life
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga,
Spain, on October 25, 1881. Picasso's
mother was Doña Maria Picasso
Lopez. His father was Don José Ruiz
Blasco, a painter and art teacher.
His gargantuan full name, which honors
a variety of relatives and saints, is
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno María de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima
Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y
Picasso.A serious and prematurely
world-weary child, the young Picasso
possessed a pair of piercing, watchful
black eyes that seemed to mark him
destined for greatness.

PABLO PICASSO PAINTING
The Portrait of Aunt Pepa is one of the milestones in young Picasso's
portrait work. The model is Josefa Ruiz Blasco (1825-1901), his father's
sister. The undated oil was painted in 1896 during one of Picasso's study
trips to Malaga with his family
The Accordionist, was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1911. This painting
depicted a man who is playing an accordion as indicated by the title. The
painting was painted in the style of analytic cubism, which divided threedimensional
forms into a two-dimensional plane. This style was developed
by Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907 and 1914.
Picasso's experiments in making flat sculptures were followed up in the
early 1960s with a series of works in on entirely new medium and
technique. At first Picasso produced small models using folded paper and
cardboard, thus recalling his use of these materials in his early Cubist
sculptures.

Picasso’s most famous work, Guernica
Probably Picasso's most famous work, Guernica is certainly his most powerful political
statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing
practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals,
particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a
perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment
of peace. On completion Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour,
becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War
to the world's attention.
This work is seen as an amalgamation of pastoral and epic styles. The discarding of
color intensifies the drama, producing a reportage quality as in a photographic
record. Guernica is blue, black and white, 3.5 meters (11 ft) tall and 7.8 meters (25.6
ft) wide, a mural-size canvas painted in oil. This painting can be seen in the Museo
Reina Sofia in Madrid. Interpretations of Guernica vary widely and contradict one
another. This extends, for example, to the mural's two dominant elements: the bull and
the horse. Art historian Patricia Failing said, "The bull and the horse are important
characters in Spanish culture.

Photo of Picasso working on Guernica

THE END

JOAN MIRÓ
He always wanted to paint like a child

Biography: childhood and adolescence
He was born in: Barcelona(Spain) April 20, 1893
He lived in: Barcelona, Majorca, Paris and New
York
Studied in: Artistic Circle of Sant Lluc in
Barcelona
He was: painter and sculptor

Artistic career
Joan Miró exhibited his works at
Dalamu Galeries which also promoted
his first exhibition in Paris in 1918.
Between 1921 and 1922, he made La
Masia, being the culminating work of his
retail period.
After some time, Joan Miró changed his
retail style to surrealism.

SOME OF HIS WORKS I
The Harlequin’s Carnival,
1925
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This is one of Miro’s best-known
pieces
“I tried to capture the
hallucinations caused by the
hunger I was paso . It is not that I
painted what I saw in dreams, as
Breton and his people said then,
but that hunger produced a kind
of transit similar to that
experienced by the Orientals.”

SOME OF HIS WORKS II
Catalan landscape (The hunter)
Analysis of the work: shows concept of dreams and
hallucinations that the world was surpassing during its creation
Technicque: oil on canvas
Style: Surrealism
Size: 64,8 cm x 100,3 cm
Creation year: 1923-1924
Where is it?: Moma, New York, USA
Meaning: references to sky and land
Topic of the work: Catalan landscape
Colours: warm colors (orange, yellow,red), green and black.
With two spaces, creating the feeling of depth.
Composition: geometric forms, symbols and lines
Opinion: i think this paint it’s one of his best, I love the colours
and the abstract forms of it

Thank you!

FİKRET MUALLA
Expresyonizm
the art of expressing ture

The life of Fikret Mualla
He was born in 1903 in Istanbul. After completing his high school life at Saint Joseph French School and later at
Galatasaray High School for a while, he was sent to Germany to study engineering.then he went to Switzerland
and Italy. He started painting, being influenced by the museums and exhibitions he visited in these countries.
He made successful fashion drawings, his patterns were published in important German magazines of the
period.He was treated in the hospital for a while for alcohol. Later he moved from Germany to France, lived in
Paris in art circles such as Montparnasse and Saint Germain. There, he met Hale Asaf.Paris' te continuous
picture was made in Paris with the impact of the financial problems to Turkey returned. Turkey as well as the
ongoing financial Ministry of Education in order to overcome the problem 's application was made and in 1934
in Ayvalık Secondary School has been appointed as an art teacher. Fikret Mualla, who saw that his teaching
profession did not suit him for a short time, resigned and returned to Istanbul.He drew costumes for operettas
such as Lüküs Hayat, Deli Dolu, Saz Caz, in Istanbul. He illustrated the poetry book Varan 3 of Nâzım Hikmet. He
prepared patterns for the magazine Yeni Adam, published by İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu.1939 Turkey to left.

The continuation of the life of Fikret Mualla...
•At the request of Abidin Dino for the Turkish Pavilion at the International New York Fair held in 1939, he
made about thirty paintings on "Istanbul". He drew designs for Ses magazine, which was published in 1938.
He also has two stories, "Masal" and "Üsera Headquarters", written in the same period and published in
Ses.Mualla spent twenty-six years of her life in France. He lived here under the auspices of various art
lovers (as if to say those who admire his art). He suffered a stroke in 1962. He died on 20 July 1967. Seven
years after the death of Honorary Korutürk'e 'reputation interference with the funeral he was brought to
Turkey and was buried in the cemetery Karacaahmet.
He sincerely transferred the facts of life to color and form, and took the people of the bohemian
environment in which he lived as the subject of his painting. Fikret Mualla's Pictures Blue Bar - 1960
Although he was close to the gouache technique and worked very quickly with this technique, he used oil
paint with skill, using watercolor and gouache. The artist, who did not work on the theoretical problems of
painting, did not participate in contemporary movements

Blue Bar / Bar
• Bars and bistros are one of the most
important themes of Fikret Mualla. His
paintings, which he handed over to
familiar bar and bistro patrons in
exchange for a few glasses of drinks
when he was out of money, reflect the
natural texture of these places he
regularly visits. The people in their bars
and on the streets of Paris resemble
one painting to another.

Balloon-Seller (1961)
Turkish painter Fikret Mualla is famous for her works of expressionist and
fauvism.

Jazzmen
The subject of the painting is Paris of
the 1950s. The years when jazz, blues,
cabarets and bistros were the most
popular. In a simple and effective blue
background, three musicians take the
audience to the Cabaret of those
years. Fikret Mualla's bars are not
without music either. Piano,
saxophone, woodwind instruments,
drums and marching band… Already,
jazz players often worked in their
works.

Ayasofya
• During his Istanbul years, the artist, his close friend Abidin Dino and Usually with Arif Dino by
visiting the building pattern worked in the courty art

Paris, Elegant Woman in
Front of the Moulin
Rouge
• Women and children occupy an
important place in her paintings.
The image of mother and child is
depicted in many of his paintings.
In his picture there are cheerful
children holding balloons in their
hands. Balloons fly and children
with balloons roam the park, the
streets of Paris. Balloons are, in a
sense, a nostalgic tool that
connects with Istanbul.

Cannes
It is stated that she was not
influenced by any movement, that
she created an original style, and
that she was influenced by Henri
Matisse, one of the most important
painters of the 20th century, in the
use of color.

She is one of the first Turkish woman artist

Hale Asaf’s Life
She is one of the first
turkish woman artist. She
is known for her portraits
and view arts that have
survived to the present
day. she studied primary
school privately at home
after that she studied at
Notre Dame de Sion
middle school.

She has a talent for
learning language. She
knew English, Greek,
French and Italian.Her
family sent her to Berlin
to study art in 1921.
When the portraits she
made while in Berlin in
1924 were published in
famous art magazines,
her name was first heard

Mrs. Hale started to use
her grandfather's name
"Asaf" instead of her
father's name "Salih"
since 1925. Hale Asaf,
one of the founders of
the Independent
Painters and Sculptors
Association, in this way
earned the title of the
first woman founder.

She had great
difficulties in the return
of his childhood illness
and its transformation
into cancer. SHe died
on May 31, 1938.

Collections that her
Painting and Sculpture
Museum, Istanbul
Rezan Has Museum,
Istanbul
Istanbul Modern Art
Museum, Istanbul
Ankara Painting and
Sculpture Museum,
Ankara
Sakıp Sabancı Museum,
Istanbul
works in

Selections from Hale
Asaf Exhibitions
1930 Independent Painters and
Sculptors Union's exhibition of
portraits and Bursa landscapes at
the Ankara Turkish Hearth
Exhibition.
1930 Montparnasse Summer
Exhibition in Paris.
1931 At the Moscovite Salon. The
bag filled with pictures that
Aniante left for a friend
disappears during the years of
World War II. He sells some of his
remaining paintings to Turkish
collectors. The fourth exhibition of
the Independent Painters and
Sculptors Association.
1931 Independent Painters and
Sculptors Association Istanbul
Turkish Hearth Exhibition
1932 Young Europe Painting
Exhibition in Paris
Hale Asaf, who drew attention
in the exhibitions in Jeune
Europe in 1933-1932, was
invited to the Tuileries
Exhibition, where it was
possible to participate by
invitation, and exhibited her
works there.

1933 Exhibit at Jeune
Europe Gallery.
1935 Hale Asaf,
Autumn Hall
Exhibition of the
Société des Artistes
Indépendants

Educations that Hale
Asaf took
She had his primary and secondary education in Notre
Dame de Sion. In this school, She started to learn French.
In 1921, when she was 16 years old, she won the Berlin
Academy of Fine Arts, which she took the exam, and Prof.
He became a student of Von Arthur Kampf. In 1924-1925,
she started to work as a student at İnas Sanayi-i Nefise
School and Istanbul Fine Arts Academy in the same year.
As a student of Feyhaman Duran and İbrahim Çallı, she
continued his painting studies, and she managed to attract
the attention of everyone and teachers with her drawings,
both technically and with her unique interpretation.

HER WORKS
• Hale Asaf Self-Portrait

Hale Asaf Self-Portrait

Bursa oil on canvas (Sakıp
Sabancı Museum)

View from Bursa

ALI RIZA
ZEYNEP DOĞANGÜN
EFE BOSTANCI
METE CAN KÜÇÜKRENDECİ
DERİN YENİLMEZ

Ali Rıza
He was born in üsküdar in 1858, Ali Riza Bey gave evidence even as a child of his talent for painting
and drawing his spend his all life in Üsküdar.
He was known as “Üsküdarlı Ali Rıza” .
He was the first painter to paint on countryside. Among his works one finds symbols through which
the past may be imagined, for example narrow streets, old wooden buildings about to collapse,
bay-windowed houses leaning against each other in warmth, mosques, fountains and graveyards.
Z

Landscape
One of the most important
painters in the history of
the Turkish painter, Hodja
Ali Reza paints landscape
painting in 1899.There is
not much information
about this painting, but
Hodja Ali is one of the
most famous works of Ali
Riza.
M

Lakeside Painting
One of Hoca Ali Rıza's most
famous paintings is "Göl Kenarı".
In this painting, the painter used
it in another special place. He
made the painting appear closer
in the dots with the colors he
created with brush strokes. In the
picture, our books and shadows
are fully specified. This painting
both makes people love nature
and fascinates its fans.
Z

E
Maiden’s Tower
Kız Kulesi by Hoca Ali Rıza
is a oil on satin painting.
Ali Rıza painted this painting
in 1904.
You can see this painting at
the Eczacıbaşı virtual
museum.
This painting’s style is
Impressionism.
E

Pistachio Trees
Fıstık Ağaçları is a oil on
satin painting too.
Painting’s style is
Impressionism. Ali rıza
painted this painting
before 1947
Z

Bagel Sellers and Neighborhoods
Ali rıza bey drew
Denize Açılan Sokak
Ve Simitçi to show
our ancient times
with this picture he
wanted us to see, the
sea and the
historical beauty.
M

Hyacinth Mansion
Although he was rather
a landscape painter, he
painted human figures
and objects. Figure
pictures are more
valuable because of
their rarity. He also used
the figure in his
landscapes, but these
figures remained more
of a dimension.
M

He was co founder of Ottoman painters community.
He entered ”Galatasaray“exhibit and he also opened his own exhibits too.
he was using charchool and watercoloring technics on his paintings.
He reflected on his paintings İstanbul’s every corner with senseir,and reality.
Ali Rıza died at 1930 in Üsküdar .
E

İbrahim
Balaban
1921-2019

• İbrahim Balaban was born in Bursa in 1921. He
goes to jail at the age of 16 because of his
father's drug affairs, and then start drawing. He
was released after 3 years and then goes back
to jail for allegedly killing an enemy. There he
meets the poets Nazım Hikmet and Orhan
Pamuk. With the support of Nazım Hikmet, he
starts to improve her painting skills.

• During his imprisonment, he
learned about philosophy,
sociology, economy-politics.
When he is released, he
participates in a group
exhibition at Istanbul Maya
Gallery.Later, he opened his first
exhibition in 1953 in Istanbul, at
the French Cultural Center and
tends towards the dynamic
movement. He opens exhibitions
in Turkey’s many cities.

• Later he opens exhibitions in
Germany and the
Netherlands. Ibrahim
Balaban's "Migration" at the
table was sold to 45 million
in 1990 and paid a living
Turkish painter's work, this
price was the highest prices.

• He took part in the movie "Refugee"
published in 2008 with the name
"Bülbül Hoca". His son Hasan Nazım
Balaban is also a painter like
himself. The artist died on June 9,
2019 at the age of 98 in a hospital
in Güngören, Istanbul, where he
was treated.

Balaban (1962) Sign (1965)

Trial on the Mount(Roman-1990)
7 Years with Nazım
Hikmet (2003)

Evacuator Yusuf(Hikayeler-2000)
Wandering around europe (Travel
Notes -1999)

Köroğlu(Blind son)
Mother of Blessings

Ekin Biçenler(crop reapers)
Hunter Boy

Blend
Çocukların Halayı

He was born in 1904 in the Fethiye district of Antalya as the children of Abdullah Fehmi Karamanlı Zade Effendi
and Zeliha Mollaoğlu Lady. Mahmut Cuda lost his mother when he was only three years old. He enrolled in Skopje
Neighborhood School for primary school education in 1910. The family returned to Istanbul in 1912 due to his
father's illness. Then Cuda enrolled in the Fatih Numune School. And his father, who was sick, passed away two
years after they came to Istanbul. Born as the last child of a crowded family, Cuda's family will disintegrate upon
the frequent relocation of his father, who was a judge in the last years of the Ottoman Empire that is full of war and
destruction, and the death of his mother and father. He is then given to Darülşafaka, a school for orphans.

School Principal Fuat Şemsi Bey directed Mahmut Cuda to painting.
At the age of twelve, due to his extraordinary talent, he decides to send Cûda to Germany for
painting education,
However, coming out of the First World War in the losing side, prevents the decision from being
implemented. On the other hand, Darüşşafaka High School has given Mahmut Cuda the
foundations of a strong education that, on the one hand, determines his profession, on the
other hand determines the foundations of his personality and artistry. The life of Mahmut Cuda
will be a life rising on these foundations.

After graduating from Darüşşafaka, he entered the painting department of Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in 1918 at the
age of 14 and started studying painting at Hikmet Onat's and İbrahim Çallı's workshops. While studying here in
Hikmet Onat's workshop, he obtained his "primary" student right due to his success. After five years of academy
training, he decides to go to Munich with his individual opportunities and attends the Hans Hofmann School. He
attended Hans Hoffman's workshop in Munich, where he went in 1923, with Ali Çelebi and Zeki Kocamemi. He
returns to Turkey on July 18th, 1924. After returning to his homecountry, he worked with Çallı for a while. In 1924,
he passed the exam held to send students to Europe. He is then sent to Paris on state scholarship. He enters the
National School of Fine Arts in Paris with the approval of Professor Lucien Simon. He studied in Lucien Simon's
workshop for four years in Paris, where he was a student of the well-known painter Lucien Simon. After working
and studying at the Lucien Simon's workshop for four years, he returns to Istanbul on Tuesday, 16th of July 1928.

When he returned to Istanbul, he started to work as an assistant teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts on October 1,
1928, alongside Namık İsmail. Mahmut Cûda begins work aimed at bringing artists together. For this purpose, he
started to write articles about the gathering of artists in newspapers and magazines. He died on the 26th of March
in 1987 and was buried in the Karacaahmet Graveyard.

Mahmut Cüda is a painter that defends cubist-constructive shapes in his paintings.

The still life, which was sold at a record price of 45.5 million liras at an auction in
1988 which had the highest value given to a Turkish painter's painting, with the
measurements of that day.

Even though this is not a still life, it is still a well-known painting. This girl is Sara.
She was a model in the Academy.

IMPRESSIONIST

Namık İsmail was born in Samsun
in 1890 as the middle of three
children.All three siblings are
interested in art from an early age,
perhaps because their father is a
calligrapher. Namık Ismail, one of
the artists of the Çallı Generation,
started his primary education in
Kabataş;then he moved to
Hamidiye School in Beşiktaş. He
became a student of the art teacher
Arslanyan and graduated second
in the school. He studied at Saint
Benoit High School.He took private
painting lessons from his art
teacher Şevket Dağ. His father
decided to send Namık İsmail to
Paris for painting education.
PORT, BOATS

This painting is a painting he
made with impressionist
influences in the year he went
to Paris. Brush strokes that go
to detail in the trees, at home
and in the countryside are
dominant. Colors are used by
homogenising them with
pastels and perspective is
provided with soft
transitions.
VILLAGE HOUSE

PORTRAIT OF NAMIK
ISMAİL'S WIFE
Namık İsmail, who started his
painting education in Paris, where
he went in 1911, went on to the
Julian Academy for a short time
and then to the Fernand Cormon
Workshop. His art life, which he
describes as the first period of his
1914 return to France, says in his
paintings that technique is weak,
emotion is strong, poetry and
imagination come before
technique. It is seen that the artist
was not affected much by his
teacher, who adopted the
academic understanding.

MISS MEDIHA, WIFE
OTOPORTRE,1917

MEN ON DECK
Feyhaman Duran, Hikmet
Onat, Avni Lifij, Mehmet
Ruhi Arel, Sami Yetik,
İbrahim Çallı, Ali Cemal,
Mehmet Ali Laga and Caliph
Abdülmecid were in this Şişli
Workshop, which was
established by the Minister
of War Enver Pasha in 1917,
from military models and
various weapons, using
postcards and photographs,
Namık İsmail exhibited 17 of
the paintings he produced in
this workshop.

ARTISTES IN THE WAR OF
SALVATION, 1917

Namık İsmail, who participated in the exhibition in the
summer of 1920 with various portraits, is described as "a
portraitist who uses dark and low-light colors, fits the facts,
does not hesitate to reflect the facial wrinkles and fatigue of his
model". The artist, who resigned from Gazi Osman Pasha
Secondary School because he was not allowed to go to Italy,
traveled all over Italy for a year and painted. On his return to
Italy, the artist, who first worked as a painter and then as
editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Forward", He left this post in
1922 and went to Paris again.

A WOMAN LONG IN CEDAR, SUNS IN
THOUGHTS,1917

Blend,1923

Namık İsmail, who describes
his art by saying "My technical
side is less strong, my poetry
side is very strong", is one of the
works that best reflects this
aspect. The pale, bluish light of
the moon covers the painting,
almost like a dream, giving it a
surreal atmosphere. With the
main dome and semi-domes of
the mosque on the hill, the
semi-shadowy view of the tomb
on the lower part, and the
courtyard wall surrounding the
mosque, everything seems to
invite the audience to an
ethereal calm.
Mehtap Mosque,1925

GRAND MOSQUE,1926

BARE SITTING ON THE
SOFA

MINING WORKERS

STANDING WOMEN,1927
Namık İsmail is very fond of sports. He
has a very luxurious cottage for his period
and often goes on long sea trips. Active
duties are also undertaken on the board
of directors of the Galatasaray Club. It is
known that he provides his students with
the opportunity to paint in the open air
with his "Pirate". They continue their
relationship with his wife Mediha Hanım
for 10 years. Due to some problems in
their marriage, they have been separated
for the last five years and divorced two
months before the artist's death. Namık
İsmail died of a heart attack on August
30, 1935 at the age of 45.

İCLAL AR PORTRAIT
One of the last works Namik Ismail, Ar Iclal
portrait of one of Turkey's first soprano.

DOLMABAHÇE,
1933
Namık İsmail has not been around a
certain artistic understanding and
technique throughout his art life, but
tried different styles. Having a strong
pattern, Namık İsmail is an
impressionist landscape painter as
well as a realist figure painter with his
masterful brush strokes and solid lines.
We can divide Namık İsmail's art into
two periods. In his paintings of the first
period, the return of Paris (1914), we
see that emotion is dominant and
technique is secondary. Poetry and
imagination are dominant in the
buildings of this period. The artist's
return to Germany (1919) is his
second period. After meeting with
German culture, technique comes to
the fore.