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Naod Zoric is said to be extremely gifted (which is obvious) according to art critics and his colleagues. He is claimed to create the paintings bursting with energy, powerful as an elemental force. This is true and it is also true that this derives from a very powerful emotion which is an expression of an artist’s personal pain, a dialogue with his convictions, doubts, suspicions and struggles with himself. He is perceived as a painter fond of drawings as drawings dominate the base of his works, even canvases. The works he presented to the Belgrade audience: drawings, ink, coal, pencil on paper, oil portraits or landscapes of Duklja ( he claims that these are paintings in colour) present the essence of his specific painting expression. In his works you can recognize his deep roots, his breathing with the ground where he comes from and a flair for painting. It is a painter who bears all the beauty and the tragic quality of Montenegro in his memory. You can also notice the shades of spiritual layers which belong to the present times in which we live. Naod Zoric sublimates the layers of experience and through the series of natives with noticeable deformities or disproportions, he conveys (with the style of the new expressionism) the mentality of an archetype of the Montenegrian, the way he sees and perceives them. That gentle mock, so typical of artists, is addressed to the destiny of the people from Montenegrian karst and it is an expression of the awareness of the special qualities that can hardly be changed over the time. Sometimes it is an expression of the futility of life or fated repetition of the same events. In the posture of those grotesque heroes you can sense a determination and courage, a sad worry, a fear and wisdom. In their eyes you can see clarity, determination, sadness, sometimes emptiness or resignation. What a skill to get to the heart of a character! Details and clothes reveal poverty, pride, modesty, stubbornness and layers of different heritage. Very courageously but without cynicism and malicious humour, Naod Zoric toys with the symbolism of a national myth of his own people and our climate. I would add that Naod is an eternal and vivacious child, a bit stubborn but honest, without malice, gifted and authentic. His landscapes, unreally beautiful, with contrasts of lights and shadows, in the mist of rainy curtains, clouds touching the ground, brutally magical, almost astral, with the antique columns as details or with an ornament of some archeological artefact of old Duklja, poetical and unique as Montenegrian landscapes, present one more subject he skillfully represents. Naod Zoric’s works are among the most renowned paintings on Montenegrian art scene. I am deeply convinced that those works stand side by side with prominent Montenegrian artists. Those paintings are well positioned and interpreted, they are skillfully performed with simple but powerful concept. The paintings and drawings Naod exhibited warn and evoke a subdued cry, it is almost a wail over the destiny and life. Their message is unique and universal. They possess a dignified pain and a beauty at the same time. From aesthetical point of view they express artist’s emotions and his powerful and creative impulses, his remarkable frankness in communication with the world and his surroundings. He does that skillfully, with authenticity, God given talent and a sensibility of a man who is susceptible to nature, surrounding sights and sounds, stricken by the beauty of mountains, especially Djurdjevica Tara. As a mature and renowned artist he is heading to become a part of our history of art. If we consider new and creative forces, painters such as Naod Zoric and other young artists, so different, controversial, curious and creative it could be said that Montenegro will remain “the land of painters’, an eternal, inexhaustible inspiration of their works.
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Primećen je kao slikar koji voli crtež, jer crtež zapravo neskriveno dominira u osnovi svih njegovih radova, pa i ulja na platnu. Dela kojima se predstavlja beogradskoj publici, bilo da je reč o čistim crtežima, tušem, ugljem ili olovkom na papiru, ili o uljanim portretima ili pejsažima Duklje, za koje on tvrdi da su obojeni crteži – predstavljaju esenciju njegovog specifičnog likovnog izraza. U tim delima prepoznajete njegove duboke korene, njegovo disanje sa tlom sa koga potiče i nerv rođenog slikara koji nosi u svom pamćenju svu lepotu i tragiku Crne Gore. U njegovom likovnom govoru prepoznajete sve nijanse onoga što su duhovne naslage i onoga što nosi vreme koje mi živimo. Naod Zorić zapravo sublimira to nataloženo iskustvo i kroz seriju likova gorštaka sa izvesnim naglašenim deformitetima ili disproporcijama, izražava - poetikom novog ekspresionizma - mentalni i mentalitetski sklop arhetipskih Crnogoraca, onako kako ih on doživljava i vidi. Taj blagi podsmeh, svojstven umetnicima, upućen je zapravo sudbini ljudi sa crnogorskog krša i izraz je svesti o posebnosti, karakteristikama koje vremena teško menjaju, katkad o uzaludnosti života i nekom sudbinskom ponavljanju istog. U stavu tih glavara, grotesknih junačina osećate odlučnost i hrabrost, neku setnu zabrinutost, zebnju, mudrost. U pogledu tih neverovatnih likova vidite bistrinu, odlučnost, tugu, katkad prazninu ili pak pomirenost. Kakva ve ština u pronicanju karaktera! Kroz detalje i odeću isčitavate siromaštvo, ponos, skromnost, tvrdoglavost, slojeve različitog nasleđa. Smelo se Naod Zorić, a bez cinizma i sa nezlobivom duhovitošću, poigrava simbolikom nacionalnog mita sopstvenog naroda i našeg podneblja. Naod je – dodala bih i to - jedno večito i razigrano dete, tvrdoglavo doduše, ali nezlobivo i iskreno, darovito i autentično. A njegovi pejsaži - nestvarno lepi, u kontrastima svetla i osenčenja, u izmaglicama ili kišnim zavesama, u oblacima koji dodiruju tlo, surovo bajkoviti, gotovo astralni, sa ponekim detaljem antičkih stubova ili ornamentom kakvog arheološkog artefakta stare Duklje, poetični, jedinstveni kao što to jesu crnogorski predeli – predstavljaju još jednu tematsku odrednicu koju on majstorski odrađuje. Radovi Naoda Zorića spadaju u zapažena likovna ostvarenja na crnogorskoj likovnoj sceni. Ta dela, po mom dubokom ubeđenju, stoje uz rame uglednih a rasnih crnogorskih slikara. Ona su likovno znalački postavljena i interpretirana, zanatski dobro urađena, idejno jednostavna a snažna. Crteži i slike koje nam je Naod izložio opominju, emaniraju nekakav prigušeni krik, gotovo vapaj nad sudbinom i nad životom. Uzdižu se u svojoj poruci na nivo jedinstvenog i univerzalnog. Poseduju istovremeno neki dostojanstven bol i lepotu. Estetski su iskaz umetnikovih emocija i njegovih snažnih kreativnih impulsa, ispovedničkih namera da komunicira sa svetom i svojim okruženjem. On to radi vešto, rukopisom autentičnim, talentom bogomdanim, senzibilitetom čoveka osetljivog na prirodu, prizore i zvuke koji ga okružuju, inficiran lepotom planina i posebno Đurđevića Tare. Na putu je da osvoji zapaženo mesto u našoj istoriji umetnosti ka kome se već uputio kao stvaralac formiranog i već afirmisanog likovnog iskaza. A Crna Gora - sudeći po novim kreativnim snagama, slikarima poput Naoda Zorića i drugim mladim umetnicima, tako različitim, kontraverznim, znatiželjnim, kreativnim - ostaje još zadugo »zemlja slikara« i večita, neiscrpna inspiracija njihovih dela. Borka Božović