www.arongdeeart.weebly.com - official web site Milos Milutinovic goes by the nick name Arongdee. In Thai means "happy go lucky", cheerful, carefree. On September 12, 1958. in Belgrade, Serbia on a mild and very colorful day, he made his parents very proud. The house he grew up in neighbored beautiful botanical garden. Being a curious child, he began jumping over the fence to the gardens and explored. This is what helped him build his mischievous spirit which would guide him throughout his life. That kind of a spirit was cramped by schooling , which he did not choose but was chosen for him by his family and surroundings. He was reading at four, and was inseparable with the books. This is where at times he finds books to be his best friends. He is starting his education at Elementary School "Vuk Karadzic" in center of Belgrade and finishes at Elementary school "Zarko Zrenjanin" in New Belgrade. He chooses to go to Commercial High School in desire to become independent as soon as possible, and to give his parents a break in finances. He quickly learns the roughness of the system, and enforced rules leave the mark teaching him a life lesson. This is why he is becoming troublesome as a student and as a personality but never leaves the book heaving the constant desire to learn. Even as a child Arongdee had a very strong feeling for justice. He gets a job as a sales representative where he dares to stand up to authorities and fights for the justice. Having a German background by his mother ,he finances his own travels around the Europe, where he gets more education and gets inspired by different cultures to give us many poems,essays,and stories... He attends Studies of Fine Arts and is one of the top five students of his generation. This is where Arongdee blossoms and works at the big projects and different arts, especially in paintings. He is very influenced by modern artists,multimedia but most of all he gets inspired by Van Gogh and finds him to be his own spiritual leader. That is very noticeable in Arongdee's paintings. Right a way the first paintings get noticed by his professors,colleagues and others but he refuses to commercialize them and didn't want to sell them. He didn't seem to see value in his own art and was very attached to them but gave them a personal value. Arongdee enjoyed the challenge when was given to him by invites to exhibit with other artists. By births of his daughters one of the levels of his soul got completed where he enjoyed being a great father. Suddenly...Arongdee stops with his painting due to his disappointment at the society and his country. Overwhelmed by turmoils and the war at the time, he was showing a revolt by trying to fight against it with his body and soul. Intensely he becomes present in political functions, he is a member and manages committee and becomes political journalist. Marriage failure he survives by taking a business offer to work in Thailand and Laos, where he spends over eight years. Arongdee works there as a professor, teacher, tutor.. He never stops his friendship with the books, especially of Buddhism and Theology. Studies their ethics, culture, tradition and for his work gets rewarded. Holds seminars in Educational system of Thailand. Arongdee is able to use four dialects in Thai language. Works in missionary churches with kids that have HIV. Follows Buddhism and spends three years in Monastery Manorom but stays to his own roots and religion. The time in Monastery he uses to learn techniques in paintings, their tradition and history of Buddhism. That way he gets experiences and the knowledge that is not familiar to the Western world. He meets a person, which he believes was send to him with the mission ,and with whom, his love for art and esthetics was woken up again! After seven years of hibernation, his abstinence in painting, he starts again but with the one difference. Arongdee starts selling his art... That is why his art today can be found at three continents Europe, Asia and North America. His clients are very interested in his art work and are owners of the few pieces. The story without an end, continues...

• published: 05 Dec 2015
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