Grigorescu 904159

This is the testimony of a painter for whom art means revelation, experience, not skill or contrivance. Grigorescu’s paintings have life, because life is what inspired them. In a practical format, easy to browse, the album includes a generous number of illustrations, some of them unknown to the public, being at the first appearance in print. The biographical text accompanying them follows the interweaving of the artistic activity and the most important moments of Nicolae Grigorescu’s life. Through quotations, the artist’s voice almost always accompanies the story, turning it often into confession. And there are also the comments of those who knew and admired him, the pen of the critics or art historians over the years. Summary: "A plastically embodied emotion" Master Nicu (1838-1861) "I am a peasant’s son and proud of it" Apprenticeship The little "big" iconographer The charm of distance Church painter Journey in search of "colour" (1861-1877) Towards Paris, to study Entrance to the forest of Fontainebleau Experience of impressionism Fellow Latin countries First exhibitions at home – a controversial artist Reporter with a brush (1877-1878) An artist in the line of fire War in Grigorescu’s colours Disappointment and creation (1878-1887) Alienation. Refuge in Vitre Poetry of the female face Last season (1887-1907) Chronology Bibliography