{"id":8007,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/sali-shijaku-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:04","slug":"sali-shijaku-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/sali-shijaku-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sali Shijaku"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sali <\/span>Shijaku<\/span>, painter, Painter of the People, died in Tirana. He was born in Tirana, in 1933. He completed his higher studies at the Institute “IE <\/span>Rjepin<\/span>” of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1960). He started working as a painting lecturer at the Higher Institute of Arts. Among the first works of Sali <\/span>Shijak<\/span> are several portraits, <\/span>landscapes<\/span> and environments of Tirana. At the beginning of his creativity, Sali <\/span>Shijaku<\/span> worked in the traditional realistic way, while later, after <\/span>his<\/span> studies he <\/span>painted<\/span> in pictorial models, he sought expressive findings through emphasized color ratios, until he reached monumental laconic <\/span>perceptions<\/span>, where drawing and color gained <\/span>high artistic expression <\/span>value. Sali <\/span>Shijaku<\/span> brought new modern and contemporary elements to the Albanian art of the 60s of the 20th <\/span>century<\/span>. <\/span>He<\/span> has <\/span>participated<\/span> in national exhibitions and has been awarded prizes. He has opened several solo exhibitions, where his <\/span>researches<\/span> in form stand out, especially in elements such as composition, color, <\/span>light<\/span> and shade. His works are preserved in the National Gallery of Art. He received the Republic Award of the First Degree (twice), Second Degree (twice) and Third Degree. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: <\/span>Shijak’s<\/span> work “Vanguard of the Revenge Battalion”, 1966, oil on canvas.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. <\/span>3 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2456-2457.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/galeriakombetare.gov.al\/en\/collection\/sali-shijaku.sh<\/span>t<\/span>ml<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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