121. Vase with flowers [1999]

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121. Vase with flowers [1999]

Constantin Piliuţă

1929, Botoşani - 2003, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 4.000 - 7.000

Sold

EUR 4.250

References

CEBUC, Alexandru, "Constantin Piliuță," Arc 2000 Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002 PRUT, Constantin, "Constantin Piliuță. Landscapes of Memory," Sport Tourism Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983

oil on cardboard, 71 x 71 cm, signed and dated bottom right, in black, "C. Piliuță, (19)99"

Research information

The work is reproduced in the catalogue "Constantin Piliuță", Alexandru Cebuc, ARC 2000 Publishing, Bucharest, 2002, under the name "Flowers" and appears on the catalogue cover.

Actively contributing to the evolution of Romanian art, Constantin Piliuță chose to embody the spirit of an age in his work. A disciple of Alexandru Ciucurencu, Piliuță was shaped under his teacher's guidance but did not become his extension. Relying on emotional experiences, the artist created a lyric plastic universe, combining sensitivity with the decoding of the creative act's meaning. Throughout his artistic evolution, Piliuță explored a host of pictorial genres, each fulfilling a different function in his journey. To Piliuță, the portrait has specific psychological implications, and still lifes denote his ability to find the unusual in ordinary spaces. With an almost pantheist vision of nature, Constantin Piliuță sought to capture expressiveness in the language of flowers, trees, and colors. Despite his compositional character based on form synthesis, the painter appears to narrate a whole story with just a few elements. Constantin Piliuță avoided smothering the canvas; he continually looked for raw expression derived from the laconic. The painter attributed exceptional importance to flowers, a concern that sprang from his diligent studies during his youth. His flowers are distinct because the artist did not shelter them from transience, giving them artificial life. Instead, he portrayed them as fleeting symbols born from color and pathetically wilting. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Piliuță produced a range of works capturing the rustle of nature. The cycle dedicated to flowers is comprehensive, comprising works such as "Flowers", "Red Flowers", and "Spring". The present work belongs to the same creative period. The coloristic register is dominated by gray, blue, green, and a pale pink. The work is a genuine study of chromatic harmony; each tone melds with another on the canvas. All of Piliuță's colors tend to disperse into a milky paste, assuming a personal note. This work becomes an argument for simplifying pictorial expression, preserving the essence in its pure form.

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