Petar Mazev

Petar Mazev (February 10, 1927 in Kavadarci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – March 13, 1993 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) was a Macedonian academic painter,[1] who is considered one of the most important postwar painters who introduced new energy into contemporary Macedonian art.

[2] He graduated from the Academy of arts in Belgrade in 1953 where he studied under painter Zoran Petrovic.

He had held individual exhibitions in the United States, China, India, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and other countries.

[2] In the mid-1960s, Mazev started to include in his non-figurative paintings in muted colours and rendered in dense and grainy impasto with materials such as burnt wooden plates, glass, scrap-metal sheets, and sand.

[3] In addition to paintings (mostly oil on canvas), he was also the author of murals, mosaics and ceramic arts.