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The first sparks of fine art talent
•His talent, Adem Kastrati has manifested it since he was a child, expressing it through modeling and drawing
on the colorful mud tiles of his hometown. But, he has shown his real talent in the elementary school benches
by showing interest in artistic subjects: poetry, music, but it is understood that he is more distinguished as a
talented illustrator. Regarding his first contacts with fine arts, Kastrati talks about his first pencil drawings,
which the teacher, Mehmet Turani, always praised in front of the students. Then he remembers another
moment related to his talent, when he as an elementary school student had drawn in pencil the portrait of his
grandfather. In addition to various traditional games played by children, quite a favorite for them has been,
especially, the mud game that the village streamKaracheva had it in abundance. "With the mud in different
colors we made pictures of humans, animals, animals and birds, but more often I modeled the dove
flying. "From that mud I made tiles on which I sketched various figures", Kastrati recalls. And so, slowly, the
painter was appropriated by the world of mud drawing and modeling, and day by day it became clear that he
had a future in the field of art. Drawing subject in Gjakova Normalwas given by the teacher, Lirie Tanefi,
who never gave Kastrati the highest grade. but that note noted in the subject of drawing by the teacher,
Tanefi, he always has experienced it as biased and unfair to him. "She did not believe that I made the
drawings myself. "My teacher was not satisfied because she thought that I had allegedly copied a work by
the painter, orgorjee Andrejeviiq - Kun", the painter declared in the press of the time.