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Paula CraioveanuMemories from Past Life - original large oil painting Paula Craioveanu 59x39in2022
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"Memories from Past Life" - original large art by Paula Craioveanu
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 59x39in / 150x100cm. Shipped rolled in a tube.
"Memories from Past Life" is a captivating blend of abstraction and realism, evoking a surreal yet introspective atmosphere. The artist employs an intriguing overlay of gestural lines and abstract markings over classically rendered human forms. The figures themselves are delicately modeled, emphasizing the softness of flesh and a sense of vulnerability, contrasted against the rigidity of the architectural elements and the sharp geometry of the checkered floor.
The use of cool blues and whites creates a calm, ethereal setting, while the warm reds and pinks used on the figures introduce a sense of life and emotion. This contrast between warm and cool tones heightens the tension between the abstract and the figurative elements.
The semi-transparent lines, which look almost like sketches or anatomical studies, add a sense of motion and psychological depth. They symbolize fragmented thoughts, inner turmoil, or layers of identity.
The checkered floor suggests depth and stability, but the abstract lines disrupt this, as if the viewer is oscillating between a grounded reality and a more fluid, intangible world.
The figures appear introspective. The seated pose of the central figure exudes a sense of contemplation or vulnerability, while the second figure in the background feels ghostly, adding to the dreamlike quality.
The fractured, layered aesthetic brings to mind influences from Surrealism (Salvador Dalí) and Expressionism, where inner emotion takes precedence over physical reality. The anatomical sketches evoke the Renaissance tradition of studying the human form but deconstruct it in a modern, experimental way. The geometric floor echoes metaphysical painters like Giorgio de Chirico, where space takes on a symbolic, almost unreal quality.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Biography:
Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world.
Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York.
Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy.
Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States.
Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York.
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- Creator:Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 59 in (149.86 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240215323922
Paula Craioveanu
Trained in Bucharest and New York as architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
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