Nikola Martinoski (bornNicolache Martin;Aromanian:Nicola Martinoschi,[1]Macedonian:Никола Мартиноски; 18 August 1903 – 7 February 1973), sometimes spelledMartinovski (Aromanian:Martinovschi,[2]Macedonian:Мартиновски), was aMacedonianYugoslav painter ofAromanian ethnicity.[3] He is considered as a founder of contemporaryMacedonian art.[4] Martinoski is best known for his painting titledMother with Child, which, although first created in the 1930s, was not completed until the 1960s. He is also known as "The Doctor" for the many paintings he donated tomodern art.[5]
Martinoski was born Nicolache Martin in 1903 to anAromanian family inKruševo (Aromanian:Crushuva; at the time part of theOttoman Empire).[6] He developed an interest in painting at a young age and attended art classes in the workshop of Dimitar Andonov-Papradinski, an icon painter inSkopje. Prior to 1921, he was constantly on the move. Finally, Nikola settled down inBucharest,Romania and attended the Academy of Fine Arts, now known as theBucharest National University of Arts, from which he graduated in 1927.[7]
Martinoski spent two years (1927–1928) inParis at theAcadémie de la Grande Chaumière,[citation needed] which is famous for former studentsAmedeo Modigliani andBoris Anrep and theAcadémie Ranson with artists like thePolish painterMoise Kisling andRoger Bissiere, who acted asmentors. This period had a major impact on his life and style as a painter.[7]
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Martinoski came back to Skopje brimming withavant-garde ideas about art. He developed a very specificexpressionistic style and started dealing with social themes rather than portraits. Nikola soon became a member of the Belgrade groupOblik.[citation needed]
His first individualexhibition was in 1929 inSkopje. Afterwards, he started exhibiting in other cities such asBelgrade,Zagreb andParis. While he continued drawing, painting, and exhibiting, Martinoski also began creating large murals. Later, he established the Artistic Gallery located in Skopje (now known as theNational Gallery of Macedonia) and won numerous awards.[7]
Martinoski died on 7 February 1973, at the age of sixty-nine in Skopje, then in Yugoslavia. He gave sixty-two of his paintings toKruševo as a parting gift. His home in Kruševo is now a gallery where a small number of his works are exhibited.[8]
In 2003, theNational Gallery of Macedonia completed the project "100 years from Martinoski's birth". The exhibition featured paintings that had never been publicly shown before because they were part of 116 paintings that Martinoski left to his family in a nondescript box.[8]
Many of Martinoski's works were greatly influenced by medievalfresco art and modern Parisian school crisscross. However, his strongest artistic creations were portraits.[5]
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