Articles

In the last years of the preceding millennium, Markovic creates a series of paintings symbolically titled: "Notes from Chilandar"...
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Goran Sovilj, Art Critic

Miloje Markovic is a painter of a totally different profilation, and what he is doing can be easily included into our special history of modern art...
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Dusan Dokic, Painter and Art Critic

In Markovic’s paintings there is no movement, everything is still, even time itself has stopped. This drama is achieved with a minimum means of expression, which is the greatest creative challenge...
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Nikola Kusovac, Art Critic

Markovic has sojourned several times in Chilandar. With silent prayers and talks pleasing to God with Chilandar monks, he went through the eight centuries of Chilandar absorbing all that which will be of use to him to transpose into painterly memory...
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Mr Slobodan Mileusnic, Art Historian, Director of the Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church

The paintings of Miloje Markovic are reminiscent of the golden days of our realistic painting, of that almost forgotten time of glory of Dorde Krstic, Uros Predic, and Paja Jovanovic, still living in some people's memory as the only time in which there was harmony between art and reality...
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Dorde Kadijevic, Art Critic

Miloje Markovic collects, classifies and paints discarded, lost, unknown, old objects whose function has disappeared, vanished in time, which are still existing only as artifacts, as naked objects...
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Dejan Doric, Art Critic

Markovic is a painter with a sure hand and luxurious talent, who is not inclined to current trends in art. When we watch the paintings with scenes from Chilandar monastery, where Miloje Markovic sojourned, portraying objects in everyday use such as a monk's bag, candlestick, censer, or a monastic pot, we have an impression that time has stopped I and expect to see the monk, who left them there, return...
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Slobodan M. Stefanovic, Art Historian