About Dimitar Kondovski
Lived 1923 – 1993 (aged 69). Dimitar Kondovski was a Macedonian painter, art critic and illustrator.
Dimitar Kondovski (, ; 1927–1993) was a Macedonian painter, critic and professor.
Education and career He was born in Prilep and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He was a professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Skopje. He was one of the key figures in the painting Barbie Casual Fashion in the second half of the last century. He had 15 solo exhibitions in Macedonia, the former Yugoslavia, the United States and Canada, and participated in many representative group presentations in prestigious galleries worldwide. His works reflect the rich tradition of medieval Macedonian art. His more recent work had a tendency to synthesize carefully selected sequences of the spiritual - the aesthetic and plastic repertoire of medieval art and those forms of nonfigurative and associated art, as traditionalist tissue could allow modern cohesion. His painting was a complex composite assemblage, with delicate and formal structures using various aesthetic and visual data, in order to become a work of art autonomous aesthetic phenomenon. These are bands that resemble the cult, sacred objects: through them constantly goes to a modern sense of the artist's inner needs, spiritual ritual, and aesthetics of these pieces to fit into the current art movement, the meditative and skeptics understanding of the world.
Accomplishments He won in 1964 The October Award (Oktomvriska prize) of the Federal Republic of Macedonia for painting, and prizes at the 8th Mediterranean Biennale in Alexandria and the 3rd Belgrade Triennial in Belgrade. He was the author of the monumental painting facility in Zhelezarnicata in Skopje 1967.
A stamp was issued by the Macedonian government on April 15, 2012, in honor of the 75th anniversary of his birth.
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Who was Dimitar Kondovski?
Macedonian artist (1923-1993)
When was Dimitar Kondovski born?
Dimitar Kondovski was born on 30 September 1923 in Prilep.
When did Dimitar Kondovski die?
Dimitar Kondovski died on 8 August 1993 in Skopje.
What was Dimitar Kondovski's occupation?
Dimitar Kondovski was a painter, art critic and illustrator.
What nationality was Dimitar Kondovski?
Dimitar Kondovski was Macedonian.
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