October 22, 2008
The "painter from the Bresovo Village..." - that's how he is referred to all around Bulgaria.
His works are best-described by Ivan Kirov: `A gigantic, according to our scale, work that is a fusion of the Peter Broegel's insight and the Van Gogh's cosmic implication mixed with sheep scent floating over the Bresovo hill slopes, interwoven with the homespun of the Karakachan nomad mountain shepherds and the fire-dancers - the centuries-long experience of the European art mixed into our local traditions. That is what Zlatyu Boyadzhiev did for that wretched Bulgarian people, who keep on uniting with other civilizations but always stick to their own.` Born on October 22, 1903, in the village of Bresovo, in the Plovdiv District, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev graduated from the Ts.Todorov's class of the Sofia Art Academy in 1932. He painted portraits and compositions depicting village life as well as landscapes predominantly from Plovdiv and its vicinity. His paintings are kept today in the National Art Gallery fund, as well as other Bulgarian and European galleries and private collections. A film-portrait has been created to commemorate one of Bulgaria's greatest artists. The film presents memories about Zlatyu Boyadzhiev shared by fellow artists: the sculptor Ivan Topalov, the artists Atanas Neykov and Encho Pironkov, as well as by foreign art critics. |
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