КУЛТУРНАТА ИКОНА – ДИЧО ЗОГРАФ
The Cultural Icon – Dicho Zograf

Summary/Abstract: Tresonche is one of the Mijak village located in the Mijachija area, in the Bistra massif (the Radika River area). Tresonche is considered to be one of the oldest villages in the Mijak region. The village of Tresonche is the birthplace of many icon-painting guilds, icon-painters, the so-called ‘zografi’, woodcarvers and master builders. The village of Tresonche is the birthplace of Dicho Zograf, who is one of the most famous icon and fresco painters in the Balkans in the 19th century. He painted more than 2.000 icons throughout many places in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Greece and so on. Dicho Zograf’s work marks the end of a thousand-year-old conceptual and aesthetic system and the beginning of a completely new period in Macedonian art history. With his work, he established a new direction in which he painted the icons on a neutral, often golden background, thereby emphasizing the spirituality of the saints’ characters. He also worked on new iconostasis, paint separate frescoes, as well as whole ensembles in churches and monasteries. Dicho left and a book Erminia in which he wrote about his life, his family and about everything he knew about of painting technique. Dicho and his work are one of the main brands of Macedonian culture. That is why he is our national and cultural icon for all time.

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