Surrealistic metaphysics, lyric abstraction and artistic identity of Gjelosh Gjokaj as a universal figurative value

• Author: Shpresa Tolaj-Gjonbalaj
• Position: Albanian Studies Centre, Tirana
• Pages: 208-218

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Surrealistic metaph

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as a universal fi gurative valu

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This th eme goes aside with lineament of the artistic personality of world measures of Gjelosh

Gjokaj. He is known as the emblem of modern graphic of Kosovo. He was the artist who was

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cknowledge for his authenticity and artistic credibility. He was one of the fi rst founding stones

of the branch of Graphics at the High Pedagogical School in Prishtina. He was also a member of

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rts of Kosovo, as well as a distinguished painter and

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raphist. Gjelosh Gjokaj is characterized by the free modernist fi gurative expression, artistic

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He chose to delineate the synthesis among the traditional and the archaic, interwoven with the

symbolism of surrealism, metaphysics of the lyric abstraction, in his creative opus throughout

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ll its creative phases. So, the artist, who feels like missing his homeland, and who also feels

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nd su ers the tragic destiny of the Nation, through his original artistic expression testifi ed to

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he world his ethnic Biography.

This biography, treated with exceptional authenticity, was evaluated from the world art

scholars. The encouragement from these scholars was the constant impulse for Gjokaj, who

devotedly, seriously and commi ed made him bring paint works of high artistic level, keeping

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lways the same path started since his childhood.

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Thematic analysis of Gjokaj composition aims to o er an analytical observation upon the artistic

path of the artist himself, who grew up fi ercely in the high levels of

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uropean paintings, and

why not, worldwide levels as well.

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lthough his name was known in the metropolises of the

western art, being grateful with the honor he made to his nation, we owe him to continuously

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reat the Gjokaj artistic phenomenon and transmit his traces to the younger generation.

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uring the research there were implemented the standard scientifi c research methods.

The article is based in primary and secondary sources, monograph, newspaper articles, TV

programs, direct analysis of the artist’s activity, as well as a bundle of other materials.

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This article brings to light artist’s maximum achievements of world size, which successfully

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nd courageously trod in the path of international art. Because of this, Gjokaj might be an

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This thematic tends to treat the promotion of confi rmed values of the artist, who in a dignifi ed

way, with high consideration and much respect, made known to the world the name of the

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lbanian. Being one of the fi rst artists who cultivated the contemporary art in Kosovo, as a

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ember of the Pleiades of the

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rying to improve the artistic expression in a chronological way (in Kosovo, but even in the

Western countries where he spent most of his lifetime) his name in the contemporary

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Gjokaj, metaphysics, abstraction, authenticity, nation, international etc.