Misha Kravcev was born in Belgrade, 16th of February 1962, as the descedent of Russian emmigrantes from the Communist`s Revolution.
As a professional painter untill now, he excibited in Stockholm, Wiena, Limassol, Belgrade, and many other places, allways at the leading and most exclusive places for art excibitions.
He had 20 single excibitions, and a lot of commons.
Probabily the most success in his art career till now, were at 1998, that Swedish galleriests invited him and arranged him a great excibition in the center of Stockholm, In the `Aston Gallery`, during the manifestation - `Stockholm, The Capital of Europe,98`.
Also, at 1993, he got award as the best young Yugoslav artist, up to the age of 35, at Loznica.
In his artwork, there is a lot of spirit and ideas from ancient Greece tradition, about those preciouses and true, which connect all the people and all cultures through the centuries, bringing the essence of the life inside us.
Perhaps, because of that, Mirjana Zivkovic, one of the leading Yugoslav newspaper critics from pre Milosevic times, called him `an Arpheas with a paint brush`.

While the dark period of Milosevic`s Serbia, the personality and artwork of Misha Kravcev were `in the corner` for many reasons. And during this period, all leading public broadcasts or newspapers, were almost closed for him.
One of the results of being `a man out of the system` were 10 years period of fighting for saving his flat (and this is stil a problem), and 10 years without a chance to buy it, like all other people in his country, not even the chance to get some space for working.
He never was one of the `clan`, one of the followers of the system, of that way of thinking, of that way of behaving in generaly, with all that poltroonism to some `mighty persones`. And from the other side, he was too much authentic, too much free mind and spirited, too much Blue, even without respecting or understanding his ideas in a such atmosphere.
He was brave to tell the true in the public, keeping his own way of working and thinking, rather oposit than accepted all those years. Even more, while those days of `darknest darkness`, during the war and just after that, he was enough brave to tell his opinion in public (for exeample in Japanese `Mainichi Shimbun` or `Reporter` from RS while this Magazine was forbiden in Yugoslavia )
1998, he was invited by the Swedish galleriests to take a part in the `Stockholm, The Capital of Europe 98`, and they arranged him a great excibition in the center of Stockholm, for that cellebration. On Milosevic`s TV news, there was no word about that event, and one journalist from `Politika`, alined that excibition with one beginer`s in a third level gallery in Belgrade, noticing this two events at the corner of the page, in few sentences, together.
The legendary art critic from `Politika` in pre Milosevic`s time, Mirjana Zivkovic, an editor of cultural page, called him ` an Arpheas with a paint brush`. She wrote about him as the one of the most authentic art painters today, which was confirmed by many others, later. (He was one of a verry few living artists in Yugoslavia, whose excibitions has been opened by Mirjana Zivkovic herself).
As a persone `out of the system`, she was warned that she will be dismissed from her editor`s place. Very soon after that, she passed away. In the next period, `Politika` with new editors from Milosevic`s regime, were almost closed for Misha Kravcev. `Politika~ was opened only for the obeydients of the `system`, no matter, that Kravcev was the only painter from Yugoslavia invited directly from the leading European galeriests, at the most important events in the world of art.

MY DREAMS AS AN ARTIST TODAY

My art don`t look like - I like to go further and I don`t want to obey no law than the law of the God, Cosmical. In the world of the Devil, there`s no easynes, only hardness, and there - `you must`, but in the world of human beings who wants to touch or reach cosmical, deep inside them - `You wish to, or you want to...`
I don`t like to use anything which leads to any kind of confection or statistics.
Surely, I start from something of all that artists before me, like from the genetic acsioms, without repeating them..
The whole world is one soul and one body. The Unity is law of the God, and the Mutation is the law of the Nature.

I have a dream about -
First : That my art be as easy and simple, to give a look like the child can do it, and againe that inside them is as many of that ordinary cosmical sincerety, to be simply recognized for everyone, no matter if it is on the third view...
And second : That the Artist and philopsopher, the scientist and theologist, start to communicate with the same language, like the whole world becomes from the one soul, pure and bright.

Misha Kravcev 1994