Tomo Vladimirski

Tomo Vladimirski ({{langx|mk|Томо Владамирски}}; 1904–1971) was a Macedonian painter, considered to be one of the founders of Macedonian painting.{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.in.mk/story.asp?id=11389 |title=Culture - Republic of Ìacedonia |accessdate=2006-07-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311090916/http://www.culture.in.mk/story.asp?id=11389 |archivedate=11 March 2007}}

Career

Artist during the War period were limited in their creativity due to necessary condition for artistic creation; therefore, the number of paintings they contributed were relatively small in quantity. Vladimirski, along with Vasilie Popovich – Cico, Dimo Todorovski, Nikola Martinoski, Borko Lazesk, are who were affected by conditions of the time.{{cite web|title=The educational, cultural and religious life (1941–1944)|url=http://www.macedonians.tv/showthread.php?p=369021|work=Board Mill|accessdate=4 July 2013}} In addition to being a painter, he worked with Nikola MartinoskiIn and Vasilije Cico Popovic to create a number of stage designs.{{cite web|title=Exhibition on 100th Years of Birth of Nikola Martinoski|url=http://www.culture.in.mk/story.asp?id=8531&rub=|work=Culture: Republic of Macedonia|accessdate=4 July 2013}} These stage designs were reported to give the a sense of realism to the acting in the plays, operas, and ballets during the time period, post World War II.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Rubin|first=Don|title=Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9RV5UFtPNMC&pg=PA578|encyclopedia=The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theater|page=578}}

Painting style

He was a landscape painter who painted the natural beauty of Macedonia. He used elements of realism in the beginning and later the phase of impressionism and retaining the lyrical expressionism.{{cite web|title=Cultural Heritage|url=http://www.gbiblsk.edu.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&lang=en|work=City Library "Brothers Miladinovci" Skopje|accessdate=4 July 2013}} His paintings of landscapes were the most notable. Senior custodian in the National Gallery, Mirjana Talevska describes Vladimirski's work, "by describing an area, he turns his painting into a personal diary of his urges and moods". Vladimirski also created still lifes and motifs from urban panoramas with a frequent focus on the landscapes around the rivers Radika and Vardar.{{cite web|title=TOMO VLADIMIRSKI|url=http://www.dlum.org.mk/en/osnovopoloznik.asp?id=4|work=DLUM Association of Arts of Macedonian|accessdate=4 July 2013}}

References

Category:1904 births

Category:1971 deaths

Category:20th-century Macedonian painters