Technique, material: lime-based primer; acrylic paints,

Dimensions: 1080/700 cm

Acad. Dechko Uzunov studied at the Munich Academy of Arts. He graduated in painting at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia in the class of Prof. Stefan Ivanov. From 1926 to 1932 he worked as a staff artist at the Ministry of Education, after which he began teaching painting at the Academy of Arts. He was an associate professor from 1937, and a full professor from 1942 to 1963. He worked in the field of painting and monumental arts.

The artistic heritage left by Dechko Uzunov is extremely diverse in terms of themes, genres and types of fine art - both fine and applied.
He creates painting, graphics, book illustration and layout, scenography, decorative monumental painting. He works in the genres of portrait, nude, landscape, still life, figurative composition with historical, biblical, mythological and contemporary subjects.
Dechko Uzunov is one of the most diverse Bulgarian artists.
In the 1920s, he worked in the style of classical impressionism and neo-expressionism. He has been defined as the Bulgarian Paul Cézanne. In the 1940s, it entered a "bourgeois" period. An example is his painting "The Worship before the mortal remains of H.V. Tsar Boris III" from 1943 and "Conference of the leaders of the TKZS" from 1953.
In the 1970s, he turned to abstract art. It is patronized by Lyudmila Zhivkova.

His last period is characterized by being "fuzzy". His works stand in watercolor, like a mat, as is "Praise of Bulgarian Culture".
You can see the technical mastery in the drawing and composition. The deliberate incompleteness rather serves as an effect and reinforcement of the feeling of the past greatness that underpins Bulgarian history.

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