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Stop the war 1 Painting

Zijad Mehmedovic

Sweden

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 35.4 W x 26.8 H x 0.4 D in

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War has always been the most passionate human invention. Mass killings, mass expulsions from their homes, destruction of infrastructure, shelling and rocketing of towns and villages, horrific war crimes against civilians, I experienced all this in the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it all leaves a mark on a person for life. That is why I tried with one series of images of war destruction and war motives to give my contribution to anti-war policy. The series of paintings of war seas is called "Stop the war", and the paintings were created from 1991, 1992 until 2015. With wide and strong brush strokes, scratching on the canvas, I wanted to achieve a strong expressionist impression of the horrors of war, hoping that the viewer would not remain indifferent. Many of the paintings from the cycle "Stop the war" were first exhibited in a solo exhibition at the art salon "Protiron" in the city of Split in 1992 and described in a book by art historian Dr. Dusko Keckemet "exhibitions in Split from 1945-1992".

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 26.8 H x 0.4 D in

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In my motives I start almost always from figuration, the signs of the shell figure of the things that surround us, but I process the motif with color, powerful broad brush strokes, lines, stains, and even lumps of color. By releasing colors and brush strokes, I want to give a strong impression that something is happening inside and around the motif, sometimes it ends in pure artistic form, almost abstractly, and most often in a strong expressionist experience. Born and living in Zvornik until 1980, when I moved to Split in Kroatien. And I enrolled in Split at the University of Arts and Art History in 1981 where I graduated with a degree in painting from Professor Ivan Krstulovic in 1986. In 1988 until the beginning of the war in 1991 I studied art history at a postgraduate study in Dubrovnik. I have been a member of the Association of Artists of HDLU (HULU) Split and HDLU Zagreb since 1989. I have been living in Sweden since 1994 in January. I worked at a high school in Sweden as a fine arts painter from 2000 to 2013 in Karlskoga. In Sweden I was a member of the organization of artists KRO and Stockholm. I now live in Örebro, Sweden and am a member of the Örebro Läns Konstförbund (ÖLKf), and HULU Split in Kroatien. Had many individual and group exhibitions. Last exhibition was in Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022: INTERBIFEP, INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL FESTIVAL OF PORTRAIT.

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