Petro Kokushta, painter of the XX-XXI century, was born in Tirana. He attended the Artistic High School “Jordan Misja” and the High Institute of Arts in Tirana, in the branch of easel painting (1969). From 1970, Kokushta was a lecturer at the High Institute of Arts and further, from 1987, he was the Secretary of the League of Writers and Artists of Albania. He has participated in all the most important local, national, and international exhibitions. Petro Kokushta, in his creativity, unfolded interesting works with full and powerful colors, which have brought the paintings a modern status and almost outside the strict formal, academic, and scholastic norms of the time. Before the 1990s, Kokushta’s painting could not go beyond what the regime at the time imposed. He has realized cycles of landscapes from the coastal area of Vlora, Gjirokastra and Tirana. (In the photo: Kokushta’s work “Spring in the hills of Tirana”, 2020, oil on canvas.)
Text: Ylli Drishti, 100 years of Tirana in painting; 1920-2020, “Mediaprint“, Tirana, 2020, page 162.
Photo: © Author’s collection
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