54. (Self)portrait [1973]

At the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Sorin Dumitrescu was a student of Corneliu Baba and a colleague of some important names in Romanian contemporary art, such as Ștefan Câlția or Sorin Ilfoveanu. He made his debut in 1969 in a group exhibition organized in Brasov, and in 1981 he founded, alongside other artists, the group "9 + 1", as a reaction to the communist regime and the way it related to native artistic values. True creativity, as the artist states, is above the cognitive abilities of the human being. A recurrent theme in his creation – faith – appears in various forms: places of worship, representations of biblical figures or abstracted inlays of archetypal motifs. Whether we are looking at drawings or finished paintings, sketches or studies, we identify the sacred as the main source of the artist's inspiration. Sorin Dumitrescu chooses his elements with extraordinary precision and ponders at length on their positioning within the composition. The symbolic charge of his subjects is amplified by the choice of the chromatic palette and the incisive line of the design. The artist also assigns great importance to analyzing the distances between idea and thought, which he skillfully transposes onto his canvases. Even in compositions where he approaches subjects such as the portrait or even self-portrait, the artist does not stray too far from Christian dogma, using the same confident line, the same monochromes and somber tones, referring to elements previously used in other works.

References

BARBOSA, Octavian, "Dictionary of Contemporary Romanian Artists", Meridian Publishing House, Bucharest, 1976.

Dimensions

width 110 cm, height 110 cm

Description

ulei pe pânză, signed and dated on the back, in black, "Sorin Dumitrescu, 1973"

Dating

1973

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