Safet zec wikipedia indonesia

Zec was born in , the last of eight children of a cobbler. Displaced by the war, the Zec family endend up in Sarajevo. His artistic talents became evident even in childhood. By the time he made it to the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, he was clearly something of a prodigy. Yet when Zec was in Belgrade,post-modernism was well on the way to becoming the ruling orthodoxy.

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Finding himself, as a figurative artist, swimming against the tide of the prevailing fashion, he felt redundant and increasingly disillusioned. He even destroyed most of his earlier work. He thought of giving up altogether and becoming a musician. But in the end he knew he had to go on painting. For some years the artist continued to live in Belgrade, during which time he and his wife Ivanka bought and restored an old house in the historic Ottoman of Pocitelj, near Mostar, which was becoming a kind of artist's colony.

He established a workshop there in to print engravings. Four years later, he moved back to Sarajevo while still shuttling back and forth to Pocitelj. Before the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Zec was a well-known painter at home, his fame steadily spreading abroad and his work being shown in galleries all over Europe, in North and South America and Japan.

In Zec's dream of a tranquil life devoted to artistic endeavour began to evaporate. Having been raised in a city where mosques, Orthodox and Catholic churches and Synagogues were intermingled, where he had friends from every religious background and never encountered any hostility between the different groups, Zec is still clearly baffled and disillusioned by the disaster that overwhelmed the place.