Showing posts with label romanian painters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romanian painters. Show all posts
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Romania's Socialist Realist tradition

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My readers will know that I find art galleries the last bastion of civilisation – private galleries often offering the chance to chat; and...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Another Danube Trip

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Another trip north 2 weeks back – first to Port Cetate via Belogradchik and one of its vineyards and the Vidin bridge across the Danube....
Monday, June 15, 2015

Introducing the Romanian Realists

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I’ve been stuck this past week on the hot Bucharest plain - so not exactly fizzing with ideas. I took the opportunity to pull together som...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The great Romanian Realist school

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  An “Art Safari” is taking place this week on Bucharest’s central thoroughfare, Magheru Boulevard, in what was, until recently, an art-...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Romanian Painting - Encountering Romania part VI

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There are two superb guidebooks on cultural Romania – The Pallas Guide to Romania (2009) edited by John Villiers who worked for the Britis...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

The politics of painting

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Bucharest is a city I would normally avoid in high summer like the plague – but dental issues have forced me to divide what summer I’ve h...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

A new and hidden gem in Bucharest - the Theodor Aman Museum

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For several years we have been leaving nasty notes on the gates of the small Aman museum in Rosetti street asking when the “renovations”...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Romanian art slowly emerges from the shadows

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Bucharest’s newly-opened Museum of Art Collections is stunning – well worth the 20 year wait for its opening.  Housed in a huge, refur...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Cultural pursuits on a quiet Bucharest sunday

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Just as I maligned the city in my last post, Bucharest is now showing me a kinder face. Dental treatment has forced me to stay in the ci...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

How the arts helped shape Romanian identity

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A trip to the National Art Gallery yesterday expanded my list of significant Romanian Realist colourists of the early 20 th century - an...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Two more realist Romanian painters of the early 20th century

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Two painters were missing from yesterday’s list of important Romanian painters of the early 20 th  ;Century – one deliberately, the other...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Romanian Realists of the early 20th Century

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I’ve been a bit sniffy about the Romanian painting tradition. Compared with the Bulgarian it is certainly less accessible and more elitis...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Classic Romanian painters

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Still blocked in Bucharest with the snow and biting temperatures (minus 27 in Brasov last night) and, being the first Wednesday of the month...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Romanian paintings

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Januaries in Bucharest were bitterly cold and snowy a decade or so ago. I remember the snow covering cars in the mid-1990s. These days it wa...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Romanian art and the financial crisis

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Bucharest is not conducive to thinking and blogging. Too many distractions (TV, Museums and bookshops) and too little space in the flat. Wed...