Kosovo's history through artists

• Author: Emine Shkodra
• Pages: 149-153

Vol. 3 No. 2

July 2017

ISSN 2410-3918

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Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

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Kosovo’s history through artists

PhD Emine Shkodra

Abstract

Kosovo is a new state. For more than 100 years a er Albania’s declaration of independence on

28 of November 1912, it remained outside its native ethnic lands. The tragic fate that followed

a er this date was imposed by the interests of Great Powers, Balkan political conjunctures, and

greedy neighbors, which made Kosovo to be part of the borders of an unstable organization,

artifi cial and fabricated badly as it was Yugoslavia, initially under monarchical regime and later

under communist regime. Alone and isolated, under constant pressure of denationalization,

violence, humiliation, and violation of ethnic national rights by Serbian ruling clique, denying

its values in many fi elds, historical, anthropological, philological, civic, especially cultural and

artistic, denied and ignored without any premises and conditions for future development.

This is one of the reasons why today in our media, in our academic, university and wide

intellectual and popular layers, - values, traditions, and cultural heritage should be made

familiar and it is a duty for every specialist and art scholar, as there is a national and civic

aspect. In this regard, the valuable assistance comes from artistic creativity of many painters

in Albania, Europe and worldwide, who represent an important cultural and historical reality,

sustainable and benefi cial, with tremendous impacts in national identity and the forming of

aesthetic and artistic awareness of generations.

The research by its nature has been linked in particular with visioning (seeing, visiting) of

various works in art galleries, private galleries, private collections and artists’ studios, in

archives and museums, in their original form, not book editions and duplications, which has

helped me to be clear in opinions about the works and their artistic values, especially colors,

light shades, painting pale e in general. While works of foreign authors that are outside

Albania and Kosovo, in most cases I have used catalogs and publications, as well as websites,

projections, etc.

Keywords: Kosovo, History, visual arts.

Introduction

The pictorial opus that comes from prominent works in the visual arts that have

made Kosovo and its history its theme have been and still are ethnographic and

anthropologic values indelible identifying signs refl ected in these works, as well as

the works of some eminent Albanian and foreign personalities of visual arts who

have brought through their works pieces the Albanian national spirit, - this object is

mostly focused on aesthetical side, analytical, but linked inextricably to the powers of

their synthesis which originate from the history of Albanian and Kosovo people, the

tragic and dramatic human experiences, lightening of the ethnological and heritage

values refl ected through subjects and pictorial fi gures.

On the other hand, I must point it out that the “Kosovar topic”, if we were to name

it like this, was not present and has not been dealt by Albanian fi gurative artists for