Lazar Ličenoski (
Macedonian: Лазар Личеноски;
Galicnik, 26 March 1901 –
Skopje
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, 10 April 1964) was one of the first
Macedonian expressionist painters and one of the most authentic painters of landscape, in which he imported folk elements as well. He painted still nature, portraits and mosaics.
Education and career
Ličenoski graduated in 1927 from an art school in Belgrade, where he had studied under
Milan Milovanović (1876–1946),
Ljubomir Ivanovic (1882–1945) and
Petar Dobrovic (1890–1942).
Upon graduation, he organized his first exhibition in Skopje and specialized in wall painting at the School of Applied Arts in Paris.
There he attended the
École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scal ...
(1927–29) and frequented the studio of
Andre Lhote. In 1929 he returned to Belgrade and became a member of the group Oblik. In the 1930s he gradually abandoned portraiture and social issues as subject-matter in favour of painting the Macedonian landscape, which he rendered with somewhat crude brushwork and thick layers of intense colour. During that decade he decorated ecclesiastical and other buildings and worked on the monument Albanian Golgotha (1940) for the Serbian soldiers' cemetery on the island of
Vido
Vido ( el, Βίδο) is an island of the Ionian Islands group of Greece.
It is a small island (less than a kilometer in diameter) at the mouth of the port of Corfu.
History
The island was known to the ancients as Ptychia ( grc, Πτυχία ...
(Greece). He moved to Skopje in 1945 and became a professor at the newly established School of Applied Arts. Licenoski exhibited at several one-man and group shows at home and abroad.
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Painting style
His style had developed in the context of the
Ecole de Paris
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, which contrasted with the narrative models he had inherited from the Post-Byzantine tradition. In his mature work he introduced the idiom of
Expressionism into modern Macedonian art.
From 1928 up to 1941, his art featured full color expressionism with a high presence of Macedonian motives on his canvases. He was also able to express himself perfectly well through fresco paintings and mosaics.
Accomplishments
He founded the Office of Cultural and Historic Monuments, an art gallery and an art school where he taught until his death. He was a member of the Association of the Painting Artists of Macedonia (DLUM) and its first President, serving for one term.
References
External links
ArtFacts – Lazar Licenoski*http://www.makemigration.com/culture/meni11.php?id=17&submeni=51
1901 births
1964 deaths
Macedonian artists
Expressionist painters
20th-century Macedonian painters
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