THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

•Meeting with the painter Hegedusic in Zagreb in 1959, Adem Kastrati had competed at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade , where
according to him, although he was accepted, because he did not win the right to a scholarship and not to leave it bad family, he
relinquishes this opportunity. A few years later he claims that although he had secured a scholarship from a local factory, even
this time he could not be admitted to the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.. But, Kastrati, did not stop looking for other
opportunities to improve professionally by knocking on the doors of the academies of that time. Three years later, he established
contacts with the famous Croatian painter Krsto Hegedusic, whom he later visited in Zagreb.. In the Croatian capital, Kastrati, he
traveled in January 1962, taking with him five paintings made in the technique of earth color on fabric, which he showed to
Professor Hegeduushiiq. The Croatian painter had waited for him in his studio, and after looking closely at the paintings he
received and wrote a letter, which he addressed to the then well-known art critic, Oto Bihali-Merin, who at that time was in
charge of culture in the former Yugoslav Federation. Hegedusic also verbally told Kastrati that he had written to his friend Bihali
Merin to enable him to enroll in postgraduate studies at the Institute of Culture in Belgrade. Now it remains to provide financial
means for the studies because they are expensive to afford, so I wrote to comrade Bihali Merin to provide you with a
scholarship," said Hegedusic. As instructed by the famous painter, Hegedusic, Adem Kastrati goes to Belgrade, to Oto Bihali -
Merin. After Oto Bihali read the letter, he then addressed the painter: “Comrade, Kastrati, we can not help you with what you are
looking for, because you are from Kosovo, and that this assistance should be provided by the Kosovo Education and Culture
Council ”. Meanwhile, that also inPristina from a Montenegrin official, Kastrati had received a negative response, arguing that
within the Council in question is not provided a special fund for postgraduate studies. But despite his failure to pursue further
studies, Ademi still devotes himself more to painting, and so, with unprecedented perseverance and ascetic devotion, he
succeeded in establishing a respected name in the circles. of fine arts both at home and abroad.