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Nicolae Darascu (February 18, 1883 - August 14, 1959) was a Romanian painter. He was influenced by Impressionism and Neo-impressionism.
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Biography
Born in Giurgiu, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1902 and 1906, in the class of George Demetrescu Mirea. After graduation, he was awarded a scholarship to the Academie Julian in Paris (which, as an admirer of its former students Nicolae Grigorescu and Stefan Luchian, he had wanted to attend). He studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and a year later, in 1907 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Luc-Olivier Merson.
He traveled extensively and lived in the south of France (Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908), to Venice (1909), in Romania (to Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and in Southern Dobruja - Balchik, 1919). He maintained permanent contacts with artists from other European cultures, visiting major art museums and extending his horizons to attempt new forms of artistic expression. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Darascu rarely painted interiors or still lifes.
In 1917, along with the painters Camil Ressu, Stefan Dimitrescu, Iosif Iser, Marius Bunescu and the sculptors Dimitrie Paciurea, Cornel Medrea, Ion Jalea and Oscar Han, he founded the Arta Romana association in Iasi.
Aside from his artistic pursuits, Darascu was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1936 and 1950.