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Paula CraioveanuON THE BEACH original art Paula Craioveanu Female Nude FRAMED2022
2022
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“On the Beach”, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper, frame included.
Framed size 35.8x24in shipped framed. Check 1stDibs free shipping code for items over $500.
This drawing is a dynamic and expressive piece that captures the relaxed and organic quality of a figure reclining, likely inspired by the sensuality and freedom associated with being at the beach.
The use of pencil and charcoal gives the piece a raw, sketch-like quality, emphasizing gesture and form over precise detailing. The lines are confident and fluid, suggesting the artist’s intent to capture the immediacy of the figure’s pose rather than laboring over precision. The warm, ochre-colored tempera contrasts beautifully against the cool blue-toned paper. This duality emphasizes the warmth of the human body in its environment. The thin washes of tempera allow the underlying charcoal and pencil lines to peek through, giving the piece a layered, spontaneous feeling.
The composition is open and dynamic, with the figure stretched diagonally across the plane. This diagonal placement creates movement and energy, making the pose feel less static and more natural. The use of negative space, especially the pale blue background, enhances the figure's prominence, letting it breathe within the composition.
The loose, gestural lines contribute to an expressive, almost impressionistic approach to the human form. There’s a focus on light and shadow, with the tempera adding highlights that define the contours of the body in a soft, luminous way. This enhances the sense of sunlight, as if the figure is basking in the warmth of the beach.
The title, On the Beach, evokes leisure, vulnerability, and harmony with nature. The reclining pose suggests relaxation and a moment of quiet introspection, while the artist’s vibrant, minimalistic approach mirrors the simplicity and spontaneity of beachside life.
This piece seems to draw from traditions of figure drawing that emphasize gesture and mood, like the works of Egon Schiele or Henri Matisse. The expressive, abbreviated style harks back to modernist trends of the early 20th century, when artists sought to distill the human form into its essential lines and tones. The Mediterranean feel of the warm ochre also suggests an influence from European art.
This work is already highly evocative, with its combination of spontaneity and warmth. The interplay of line and color makes it a piece that celebrates the human form and its connection to nature.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Biography:
Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world.
Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York.
Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy.
Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States.
Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York.
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- Creator:Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240215581772
Paula Craioveanu
Trained in Bucharest and New York as architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
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