Artur M

Born 1958
Artur M is one of the most important contemporary painter. Artur M has started to create before the political changes leading Albania to democracy took place. With his well known painting 'Before Creation' (1989), Artur M was one of those very few artists, who shook off and warned the Albanian society of nineties against the crisis that was going to break. Artur M completed university studies of scenography and contributed actively and significantly as a painter and producer for the development transformation and qualitative amelioration of the animated film.

Artur M should be seen as the Albanian painter of nudes. His paintings on this subject belong to the most beautiful ones. Their compositional interweaving stirs up the creative fantasy of spectators and make them dream through magic and mystery. Often the naked images manifest a strange impressive force through their silence, where melancholy is part of a beauty almost sculptural and classical. One can frequently see in the paintings of Artur M the same feminine image that seems to be a poetical muse always sitting next to the painter guiding him across a pictorial world of an endless fantasy. The paintings of Artur M have inside them witchcraft, mystery and infinite beauty. Every detail is polished and caressed by his brush and his spirit. The works of the painter Artur M can be admired in the fund of the NGA - Tirana, in the fund of the 'Mezuraj Museum', and in other private collections in Albania and abroad.

Artur M creates pictorial situations full of internal movement. His painting style has passed through several stages of development and consolidation before he was formed as a particular artistic individuality, who unfolds numerous artistic messages to the public by applying contemporary painting techniques and communicative figurative means. The constructions of the landscapes Artur M has realized are very strange. They seem to be scenes where he shows events and views from an unknown world. Artur M treats the constituent elements of his pictures in a realistic way in order to achieve the form he has chosen. Among the main cycles of Artur M one can mention 'The Musicians', 'Nudes', 'Still Natures', 'Myths and Legends' and 'The life of the Street'. The brushwork of Artur M is very expressive and transmits spiritual warmth. Sometimes it is characterized by a bright light helping one to read the smooth forms of his monumental personages, other times the light is just frozen.