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65. Landscape at Văratec [the end of the 70s]

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65. Landscape at Văratec [the end of the 70s]

Horia Bernea

1938, Bucureşti - 2000, Paris
Estimate:
EUR 7.000 - 12.000
Sold
EUR 7.500

References

OROVEANU, Mihai, 'Horia Bernea', Noi Media Print, Bucharest.

oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, 97 × 130 cm, signed bottom centred, in green, 'Bernea'

Horia Bernea's name remains deeply linked to the small rural settlement at the foot of Brasov - Poiana Mărului. Taking over the international model of the Barbizon or the Fontainebleau Schools, Poiana Mărului proved itself fruitful for the creation of those artists who used to place their canvases on its hills. 'The Primordial Village', as it is remembered by critics, offered the artists silence and an excuse to shy away from the urban tumult. However, in Bernea's work, this tumult transposed itself into a series dedicated to Gardens. The paintings depicting gardens are unmistakeable. The artist worked in a fragmented manner and he separated his colours in a plethora of short lines, which, when put together, create that compositional harmony that Bernea sought to render throughout his creation. The artist was the main personality of the group, who often came together to paint in the small village near Braşov. He will inherit and preserve his love of nature as a result of his family teachings, especially from his father - the ethnographer Ernest Berea, who took part in the monographic studies led by Dimitrie Gusti. Thus, although he was born in Bucharest, the artist will feel a strong connection to the Transylvanian space that he will portray many times in his canvases. Horia Bernea began to draw with obvious virtuosity from an early age, when he amazed his parents with his acuity and developed sense of perspective. He will cover a diverse range of fields, including geology, botany, astronomy, atomic physics and astrophysics. But he will appropriate painting as his preferred language, which precedes the language of the written word and assimilates the artist as an initiate. In the study of plein-air painting, his masters were, as the artist himself recalls, Ioan Andreescu and Vincent Van Gogh. In Bernea's creation, the act of expression, and especially the act of expressing pure emotion, becomes a primordial approach. The artist will undertake a sort of aesthetic program dedicated to Romanian hills and gardens and will transform essential uncertainties into pictorial elements. In this work, we find the same raw green of hills, trees and gardens, but also the blue-grey of the sky and the distance. Arranged in the form of a series of short, rapidly superimposed brushstrokes, Bernea's colours bring out the beauty and grandeur of rural spaces and bring to light the love of nature.

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Thu, 14 December 2023 19:00

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