Vangel Naumovski

About

Vangel Naumovski was a Macedonian painter born in 1924 in Ohrid, then part of Yugoslavia. Interested in art from a young age, he left school after third grade and worked various odd jobs including gardener, farmer, butcher, and later carpenter and woodcarver. After military service, he briefly attended art school in Skopje in 1946 for one year. Initially painting in a folk myth style classified as naïve art, his work evolved in the early 1960s into a distinctive surrealist style featuring biomorphic abstract forms with vibrant colors, gooey textures, and dream-like, underwater qualities possibly influenced by his employment at the Ohrid Marine Biology Institute drawing microscopic aquatic life.

Classical Surrealism with biomorphic abstract and naïve elements