63. Houses in Balchik [prima jumătate a anilor '30]

After a long series of trips throughout Europe, trips that were inevitably transposed into pictorial motifs, the artist will stop in Dobrogea in 1919. He discovers Balchik and develops a real passion for its color. He paints genre scenes where he is concerned with rendering groups of people, inns or slums. At the solo exhibition organized in 1924, he exhibited several works that start from the Black Sea, with incandescent cliffs and reddish hills, Tatar houses and azure skies. Dărăscu will succeed in lending his work from his sunny spirit, through the vibration of tones and the rigor of a technique that emerges beyond the dusty roads of Dobrogea and Balchik. Although his creation abounds in landscapes dedicated to nature, we sometimes discover segments dedicated to the urban space. We mention here the landscape from Calea Victoriei, where the artist captures the coldness of the rain in the strokes that mark the water droplets; or the multiple cityscapes created during his stay at Curtea de Argeș. In these works, urban architecture, tall buildings and the hustle and bustle of the city prevail. In the present work, we distinguish the specific Dobrogean architecture, where the buildings are successively chained and open the way for the city. His confident brushstrokes and hatched outlines reveal a later stage of his creation, a stage where pointillism has long been abandoned. The artist also uses a much more dull chromatics, which opens its tonality in accordance with the represented landscape.

References

DRĂGUȚ, Vasile, "Nicolae Dărăscu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1966

Dimensions

width 60 cm, height 48 cm

Description

ulei pe pânză, signed lower right, in red, "Dărăscu"

Dating

prima jumătate a anilor '30

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