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Đorđe Zografski
Georgi Zografski (also known as Đorđe Zografski; 1871– 1945) was an artist active in the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia and Yugoslavia in the first half of the twentieth century. Biography He was born to a family of Mijak origin from Reka, whose ancestors moved to the village of Papradište. From 1907 to 1912 he worked in Niš, Serbia. Zografski largely painted icons and frescoes in the town of Niš and surrounding region. He later worked in Surdulica and Kuršumlija with his father who was also an artist. While in Nis, he painted several portraits which disappeared after the World war. He also collaborated with Dušan Miletić at the Church of St. Pantelemion in Niš. In 2011, one of his paintings from 1910, was discovered. It was a group portrait of a merchant family. The portrait was seriously damaged by bomb shrapnel during the bombardment of Niš during World War II (4 April 1944) and was in need of significant restoration work. Zografski died in 1945 in Skop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-portrait By Georgi Zografski
Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel painting, panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture. ''Portrait of a Man in a Turban'' by Jan van Eyck of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait. He painted a separate portrait of his wife, and he belonged to the social group that had begun to commission portraits, already more common among wealthy Netherlanders than south of the Alps. The genre is venerable, but not until the Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject, did it become truly popular. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
