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"Nude at the Window" Tempera on paper, Part of my Nude in Interior series. Inspired by Matisse.
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This work, "Nude at the Window", is a striking and minimalist composition that blends simplicity with vibrancy. The artist’s use of ultramarine blue on red paper is a bold choice, creating a dramatic chromatic tension that immediately captures the viewer's attention.
The interplay of ultramarine and red creates an intense and dynamic contrast. These two colors, being opposites on the color wheel, evoke a sense of vibrancy and energy. The red paper adds warmth and passion, while the blue tempera brings coolness and tranquility, balancing the emotional tone of the piece. The flat red background serves as a canvas for the ultramarine lines, emphasizing the figure without distraction.
The artist employs loose, gestural strokes to outline the nude figure. This fluidity gives the composition a sense of movement and immediacy, almost as if the figure is captured in a fleeting moment of introspection by the window. While the figure is recognizable, the artist avoids rigid anatomical precision. The abstraction invites the viewer to focus on the emotional resonance and mood rather than on details. The overlapping of strokes, especially around the legs and torso, creates a sense of translucency and layering, adding depth to an otherwise flat medium.
The title, Nude at the Window, along with the seated pose and downward glance of the figure, suggests introspection or vulnerability. The window could symbolize both physical and metaphorical openness—a connection between the inner and outer world. The style reflects a modernist sensibility, reminiscent of Matisse’s use of bold color fields and simplified forms. There’s also an echo of Fauvism, with its emphasis on pure color and emotional expression.
This piece seems to align with mid-20th-century explorations of minimalism and color field painting, while drawing on classical themes of the nude. The use of tempera on colored paper also recalls earlier, pre-Renaissance traditions of working with vibrant pigments, although here it’s adapted in a modernist context.
Overall, Nude at the Window is a beautiful example of simplicity and power in art, leveraging color and line to create an evocative and memorable piece. It invites quiet contemplation while resonating with modernist aesthetics.
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)
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240211835222
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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