Grigorescu

This is the testimony of a painter for whom art means revelation, experience, not skill or contrivance. Grigorescu’s paintings have life, because life is what inspired them. In a practical format, easy to browse, the album includes a generous number of illustrations, some of them unknown to the public, being at the first appearance in print. The biographical text accompanying them follows the interweaving of the artistic activity and the most important moments of Nicolae Grigorescu’s life. Through quotations, the artist’s voice almost always accompanies the story, turning it often into confession. And there are also the comments of those who knew and admired him, the pen of the critics or art historians over the years. SUMMARY     "A plastically embodied emotion"     Master Nicu (1838-1861)     "I am a peasant’s son and proud of it"     Apprenticeship     The little "big" iconographer     The charm of distance     Church painter     Journey in search of "colour" (1861-1877)     Towards Paris, to study     Entrance to the forest of Fontainebleau     Experience of impressionism     Fellow Latin countries     First exhibitions at home – a controversial artist     Reporter with a brush (1877-1878)     An artist in the line of fire     War in Grigorescu’s colours     Disappointment and creation (1878-1887)     Alienation. Refuge in Vitre     Poetry of the female face     Last season (1887-1907)     Chronology     Bibliography