Category Archives: art

art documentary at its best (documentary: Cocottes et courtisanes dans l’oeil des peintres – Sandra Paugam, 2015)

Posted on July 28, 2018 by admin

When the cannons of the World War I fell silent and the world started to wake up from the global nightmare in which many millions of soldiers and civilians were killed, and even more left crippled physically or psychologically, people … Continue reading →

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the art of succeeding (Film – Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, 2016)

Posted on February 25, 2018 by admin

Art defies logic. Market forces defy logic. The combination of art and market which is the market of art cannot but defy logic. This may be one of the reasons controversial works of art like the ones created by contemporary … Continue reading →

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Carte: Pierre Assouline – L’homme de l’art. D.-H. Kahnweiler 1884-1979

Posted on October 10, 2017 by admin

Lectura cărţii ‘L’homme de l’art’ (‘Omul artei’) a lui Pierre Assouline mi-a luat aproape o lună. Cartea este bine scrisă şi subiectul este pasionant – biografia detaliată în peste 700 de pagini (urmate de o bibliografie şi un index de … Continue reading →

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tragedy of a woman artist (film: Camille Claudel – Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, 1988),

Posted on May 6, 2017 by admin

The year is 2017, Camille Claudel is back in town and she seems to go through a revival and reevaluation of her work and short artistic career. A museum dedicated to her life and art opened in March in the … Continue reading →

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documentary film as street art (Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop – Bansky, 2010)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by admin

While the Bansky exhibition curated by Steve Lazarides is still open in the city, the local cinematheque screened  the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop which has the name of the artist as director in its credits. Banksy is a … Continue reading →

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psychedelic objects in space – Katharina Grosse

Posted on January 2, 2017 by admin

Meet the German painter Katharina Grosse and her colorful paintings in space. (Have you ever painted T-shirts in psychedelic colors? I did at my teen years.)                  

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‘La collection Chtchoukine et ses icônes de l’art moderne’ – an exhibition at the Louis Vutton Foundation in Paris

Posted on November 15, 2016 by admin

    I do not need to look for excuses to return to Paris, but this seems to be a good one to be back in the French capital in the coming three months. ‘La collection Chtchoukine et ses icônes … Continue reading →

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Radu-Anton Maier – His World and His Visions

Posted on November 14, 2016 by admin

    Radu-Anton Maier is a German painter born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. As a student and young artist he worked with Corneliu Baba and painted the portrait of Lucian Blaga. He moved to Germany in the 1970s, after the short … Continue reading →

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Rhinos

Posted on October 28, 2016 by admin

—- Cristian Raduta is a Romanian sculptor, born in 1982. His works feature rhinos as a recurrent theme. Rhinos were also used by Eugene Ionesco in a famous play which was once presented in Bucharest at a time of early … Continue reading →

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An Abstract Impressionist behind the Iron Curtain – The Art of Romul Nutiu

Posted on October 12, 2016 by admin

Works by Romul Nutiu (1932 – 2012), a formidable Romanian artist influenced by Abstract Expressionism, carrying it further and developing it into a flamboyant and solid corp of works.       From the Wikipedia article dedicated to the artist: … Continue reading →

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