IN CASE IF ONLY ONE THING IS MISSING – NOTHING EXISTS! - PLATON
IN CASE IF "THE SMALL MONTMARTRE OF BITOLA" WAS MISSING, THE MACEDONIAN CULTURE WOULD BE VERY POOR.
THE EYE IS A GUARDIAN OF THE BODY, THE EYE LAST GO TO SLEEP. IT’S OPEN ONLY WHEN OTHERS ORGANS ARE CLOSED.
THE TEAR IS ANOTHER THING, SHE ABANDON THE BODY, BUT THE EYE NEVER.MY EYE WANTS TO SEE "THE SMALL MONTMARTRE OF BITOLA" ALWAYS IN JOY AND FOLLOWING SUCCESSES!
POPOVSKI ALEK
SUMMER ART SCHOOL OF BITOLA'S MONTMARTRE
In 1989 another novelty was promoted at "The Small Montmartre of Bitola" the organizing of summer art schools for the young talented artists from Republic of Macedonia.
The first summer art school was organized at the end of the month of July 1989. The attendants of this school were children from Ratkovo, Stip and Bitola and they painted the magnificent fresco on the wall of the new elementary school "St. Clement Ohridski". The participants worked on this fresco for 15 days. But, they did not regret at all, because they left behind a magnificent art masterpiece that will be of great proud for next generations of pupils of "St. Clement Ohridski".
Summer art workshops were organized also in Struga, Oteshevo, Bitola, several times on Pelister. The attendants of those summer schools painted another fresco, which is painted on a wall of a store at the entry of the Old Bitola Bazaar, entitled as "Awakening".
In summer workshops organized on Pelister the attendants work on a traditional theme "The beauties of Pelister". They created more than 1000 paintings and the best of them are exhibited in the collection entitled as "Pelister rhapsody". The exhibitions of this collection arose a great interest and such exhibitions were organized in Skopje, Kochani, Ohrid, Resen…
Summer art workshops of "The Small Montmartre of Bitola" are e true art workshops on the open air. Here many talented artists enlarge their knowledge about the fine arts, today some of them are academic painters or a students of academies of fine art in the country and abroad.
That is the reason, which makes us believe that it is not so far the day when this Summer Art Workshop will grow into a small art academy.