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Paula CraioveanuMODERN NUDE original blue ultramarine nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse2024
2024
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"Modern Nude". Part of "Nude in Interior" series. Original work on colored paper, with blue ultramarine tempera, inspired by Matisse. Size 2is 7.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Shipped rolled in a tube. Get free shipping with 1stdibs code for items over $500. Comes with a certificate of authenticity,
This piece, titled Modern Nude, continues the artist’s exploration of the female form and the interplay of abstraction, color, and emotional expression. Its simplicity and gestural quality convey both intimacy and modernity, while the subtle turn of the figure’s head toward the viewer introduces an intriguing sense of interaction and self-awareness.
The seated position conveys groundedness and stability, while the slight turn of the head adds a sense of curiosity or contemplation. This subtle gesture brings life to the figure, suggesting that she is both an object of observation and a subject with her own agency. The lack of facial details reinforces abstraction, keeping the viewer focused on the overall form and energy of the figure rather than specific identity. This universalizes the subject, making her emblematic of femininity and modernity.
The ultramarine blue continues to act as a defining presence, but here it takes on a slightly more subdued role due to the figure’s relatively static pose. The contrast with the red background is still vibrant, but the mood feels quieter, more introspective. The splashes and drips of blue, particularly around the head and upper body, suggest spontaneity and energy, as if to counterbalance the stillness of the pose. These marks evoke a sense of modern experimentation, adding to the title’s theme of "modernity."
The gestural lines are confident and fluid, emphasizing the natural curves of the body. The looseness of the brushwork allows the figure to feel dynamic, even in a seated, static position. The drips of paint elongate the figure and create vertical movement, while the bold horizontal stroke (representing a platform) anchors her in space.
The turn of the head is subtle but powerful. It creates a sense of interaction that is not overtly confrontational but instead curious or contemplative. The viewer feels invited into the figure’s space without the sense of voyeurism often associated with traditional nudes.
The title Modern Nude suggests an intentional engagement with the legacy of nude art in the modern age. This work pays homage to classical traditions, but its abstraction, expressive drips, and bold color palette make it distinctly contemporary. The subject’s body is not idealized or fetishized but presented as a natural, fluid form, a celebration of humanity and individuality.
The combination of vulnerability (the exposed figure) and self-awareness (the head turning toward the viewer) reflects modern themes of identity, agency, and how we perceive and present ourselves in a world of observation. The splattered blue marks also hint at imperfection, spontaneity, and the rawness of life, reinforcing the modernity of the piece.
Modern Nude is a contemplative and elegant piece that balances timeless themes with a distinctly modern aesthetic. The interplay of vulnerability, agency, and abstraction elevates the work beyond mere representation, inviting the viewer to reflect on the evolving meaning of the nude in art. It is both intimate and universal, capturing the essence of the human form in a way that feels fresh, emotional, and thought-provoking.
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:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts. 1stDibs: LU2240215327802
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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