Nationality Romanian Name Maria Rusescu | Known for Painting | |
Born 7 September 1936 ( 1936-09-07 ) Ciudei, Storojinet County, Romania (now Chudei, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine) | ||
Maria Rusescu (born 7 September 1936) is a Romanian painter.
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Early life
Rusescu's parents, Filaret and Zamfira Andrisan, moved to Iasi from Northern Bukovina at the beginning of 1940. Maria Rusescu was a textile engineer (graduating in 1959 from Institutul Politehnic Iasi) who worked for SC IASICOMF SA Iasi, from where she retired in 1990.
Artistic career
Rusescu's first paintings, dated 1974, are reproductions, in particular, after the work of Theodor Aman. Later, she became fascinated by the work of artist Constantin Daniel Stahi, whom she considered a spiritual mentor. As a result Rusescu established the "Constantin Daniel Stahi" Foundation in 1993 in Iasi, coordinating its activities until 2007. After 1990 she participated in several local and national (Romanian) exhibitions.
Influenced by the works of Stahi, Rusescu's paintings oscillate between a native sincerity and the attempt to accurately represent, in a classical manner, religious objects or peasant traditional subjects enveloped in a particular light, creating the appearance of a world long gone where everything contained perfection and equilibrium.
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