14. Still Life

Nicknamed "a master of the colour" by Marina Preutu, Dumitru Ghiață’s works are rife with lyricism, leading him to successfully illustrating his biography on canvas. The depiction of fairs, peasants, or the countryside coincides with an important stage of his creation. In 1897, he is granted an educational scholarship by the Romanian state, which he would eventually use to travel to Paris. It is there that Ghiață discovered Cézanne. Although he is initially confused by the aggressive chromaticism and geometry in his works, the Romanian artist would go on to become an admirer of the French painter and would let himself be inspired by his work, especially in the creation of still life paintings. Still life appears as a search in the artist’s works, but also as a means of honing his fine craft. He is an advocate of simplicity above all, and, as Marina Preutu mentions in the volume dedicated to the artist, the canvas must be "a highly structured organism". Simplicity is represented in the form of unity and harmony, and the compositional order comes from the use of a central object around which others objects are placed, intended to harmonize the work as a whole and to highlight the aforementioned object.

References

PREUTU, Marina, "Ghiață D", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1977.

Dimensions

width 40.5 cm, height 33.5 cm

Description

oil on cardboard, signed bottom right, with brown, "Ghiață D."

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