Alush shima biography of mahatma

Small Territories of Freedom under communism

Alush Shima was born in Tirana, Albania.

He painted in secret under Albania’s communist regime for almost two decades, being a former Parliament member. Alush Shima’s most perilous moment was in , when the Sigurimi secret police seized his closest friend, fellow artist Ali Oseku, for letting slip praise of such bourgeois painters as Picasso and Matisse.

He worked as a set painter in Albania’s only film studio, Kinostudio. 

• Encouraged by his father to take up painting.
• Finishes School of Fine Arts in Tirana.
• Graduates from the Tirana Art Academy but is uninspired by the official art movement of Socialist Realism.
• Becomes a set painter for the Albanian Film Studio and nourishes a passion for bright colors and simple forms.
• Burns over works (considered "decadent") after secret police arrest his closest friend, artist Ali Oseku.