"Old Town" Painting

Was born on 03,12.1940 in Sisak, Republic of Croatia, died 16.01.2021 in Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia After completing the School for Applied Arts at the Department of Decorative Painting in Skopje in 1959, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and graduated in 1968 in tha class of professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovik. Since 1969 he is a member of the Association of Fine Art Artists of Macedonia. Dimitar Stojchevski has been through several creative and stylistic phases. The author has managed to create a thematic and stylistic cohesion and recognisability of his artistic expression in some of them. He is open to the challenges of the new artistic trends (new figuration, neo-expressionism and similar things) but he remains consistentto his nature and believes. Stojchevski opened his second individual exhibition atwhich he presented his new cycle of paintings under the title “Pastoral Orpheus” after eight years of work in 1988. His canvasses are covered in new motifs such as the church and the hill, the mythological scenes and the principal figure ofthe mythological Orpheus. The world of pastoral landscapes and mythological scenes has gained an archaic and primordial note in Stojchevski’s paintings. As a matter offact, there are presented triggered memory pictures, and some parts ofthe dream and the imagination. The painting is woven with refined colours and harmonies of the created linear and formal side of the piece of art. The drawing - a colour determines a form, the meaning of the symbolic figuration and the abstract - the associative contents of the painting. The calm rhythm of the forms and the energy woven into the coloured structure reveal enthusiasm and warmth typical ofthe Mediterranean climate. These characteristics Iead to the probable influences and similarities to some historical figures which as a matter of fact refers to some particular elements of the works of art by C. Monet, 0. Kokoshka, M. Chagall, J. Dubuffet, the Pop art movement and more. The Sakralium cycle, in which the presence of religious and spiritual themes is pointed out, was created in 1994. The central motif in the paintings is the St Joakim Osogovski monastery which is located nearthe Kriva Palanka town, the birth place of the artist. By working on this famous monastery and by using its specific symbols, Stojchevski tended to find a new spiritual amalgam and to express his own pursuits of the untouchable world of the sacral archetypes.