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Background Information: Mario Mirkovich
Mario Mirkovich was born in Veli Rat on Dugi Otok, Croatia on September 10, 1943. Born during the Second World War, Mirkovich was brought up in a fishing family on an island in the middle of the Adriatic Sea.
He graduated from the School of Commercial Art in Split, Croatia with a degree in mural art and worked as an illustrator, designer and art teacher before coming to the United States in 1967. Upon his arrival to America, Mirkovich engaged in a self taught study of fine art, specifically oil painting, which allowed him to create with a freedom that was unavailable to him during his life in the now former Yugoslavia.
His personal journey as an artist was one that involved a number of years spent doing work that had very little to do with the art world, including jobs as a fisherman in Texas and working in the shipyards of Los Angeles Harbor. During this time he began to sell his paintings, teach art classes and give demonstrations for a number of art clubs in the Los Angeles area.
Mirkovich’s work is a superlative demonstration of draftsmanship, composition, design, use of color, and artistic skill. Feeling that naturalistic painting has become formularized, he is determined to incorporate a unique and fresh sense of frankness and discipline in his art.
A prolific artist, he has a desire to couple cognizance of nature with the endurance of classical composition. Evincive of the artist’s probing gaze, Mirkovich’s paintings convey an intense and empathetic unity with his chosen subject. The substantive, robust and sculptural brushstrokes found in his paintings lend an almost three-dimensional quality to his canvases that are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable.
His popularity has grown over the years and he now owns and operates a gallery of his works in San Pedro, California that serves as both his studio and showroom. Today, Mirkovich combines his rigorously honed skills and his love of the natural scenes found in Southern California to create art that is simultaneously deeply personal and inspiring for others to behold.
Mario Mirkovich was born in Veli Rat on Dugi Otok, Croatia on September 10, 1943. Born during the Second World War, Mirkovich was brought up in a fishing family on an island in the middle of the Adriatic Sea.
He graduated from the School of Commercial Art in Split, Croatia with a degree in mural art and worked as an illustrator, designer and art teacher before coming to the United States in 1967. Upon his arrival to America, Mirkovich engaged in a self taught study of fine art, specifically oil painting, which allowed him to create with a freedom that was unavailable to him during his life in the now former Yugoslavia.
His personal journey as an artist was one that involved a number of years spent doing work that had very little to do with the art world, including jobs as a fisherman in Texas and working in the shipyards of Los Angeles Harbor. During this time he began to sell his paintings, teach art classes and give demonstrations for a number of art clubs in the Los Angeles area.
Mirkovich’s work is a superlative demonstration of draftsmanship, composition, design, use of color, and artistic skill. Feeling that naturalistic painting has become formularized, he is determined to incorporate a unique and fresh sense of frankness and discipline in his art.
A prolific artist, he has a desire to couple cognizance of nature with the endurance of classical composition. Evincive of the artist’s probing gaze, Mirkovich’s paintings convey an intense and empathetic unity with his chosen subject. The substantive, robust and sculptural brushstrokes found in his paintings lend an almost three-dimensional quality to his canvases that are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable.
His popularity has grown over the years and he now owns and operates a gallery of his works in San Pedro, California that serves as both his studio and showroom. Today, Mirkovich combines his rigorously honed skills and his love of the natural scenes found in Southern California to create art that is simultaneously deeply personal and inspiring for others to behold.
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