THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

Teaching
•Adem Kastrati's creative activity is inseparably associated with his work as a teacher. For thirty-five years in a row working
in education, that is, until his early retirement in 1986, Adem Kastrati, as a guide, served the message of the director of the
Normal of Gjakova , Beqir Kastrati: “Boy, you are going to open the eyes of our millet. You teachers will go to work in
those villages where they probably do not even have pine for light. You will be the ones to enlighten them. Never forget that
the children you will have in front of you will be your brothers and sisters. "If you do not think so, you are not a teacher." I
first picked up the diary in April 1950, when he was just eighteen years old, and started working as a teacher in the village
school of Koretin. To continue for several years in a row as a teacher in primary schools in Kosovo , in the vicinity
of Kamenica , Gjilan , Ferizaj , Obiliq , then in the villages: Zhegër ,Strezoc , Rogoçica , Muçivërc , and later to be
completed in some of the settlements around Skopje . A very important moment for Adem Kastrati undoubtedly represents
the year 1959, since for the first time then he starts working as a teacher of fine arts in a village of Ferizaj. However, since
his uncle, Metush Krasniqi , was politically imprisoned, pressure from the Yugoslav police force increased on the painter. It
is not too late when in the school year 1960/61 Adem Kastrati for the first time passes as a teacher in the primary school of
the village Rashce in Skopje. Since then he will be more strongly committed to painting. While working in Rashçe , in an
improvised studio in the small room of the mejtep of the village mosque, he had made 25 oil paintings, with which he had
then opened one of his first exhibitions. In the school year 1961/62, Kastrati once again became a teacher in Ferizaj, where
he continues to paint even more with dedication. From that year, when he discovered the technique of painting with earth
colors, his artistic construction and pilgrimage begins, becoming a respected name in the world of Albanian figurative art
and beyond.