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Paula Craioveanu
Love is in the Air ultramarine blue nude couple by Paula Craioveanu
2024

Name: Love is in the Air ultramarine blue nude couple by Paula Craioveanu
Brand: Paula Craioveanu
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“Love is in the Air”. Nude couple in embrace. Original drawing with blue ultramarine tempera on paper. Size 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Comes with a certificate of authenticity. Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed. Get free shipping with 1stdibs code FREESHIP for items over $500. "Love is in the Air" is a deeply romantic and dynamic piece that introduces a fresh energy to the artist’s series. The depiction of a couple in an embrace, set against the context of a beach, departs from the more introspective and solitary works we’ve seen, celebrating connection, movement, and passion instead. The use of ultramarine on ochre paper enhances the emotional resonance, with the warm-toned background adding a sense of vitality and balance to the cool blue tones. The ochre background imbues the piece with a sunlit, earthy warmth that contrasts beautifully with the intensity of ultramarine. This palette evokes the ambiance of a beach—sun, sand, and the vast blue expanse of the sky and sea—further immersing the viewer in the setting. The artist's characteristic loose, gestural brushstrokes create a sense of movement and spontaneity that perfectly captures the physical and emotional energy of the embrace. The drips and splatters add vibrancy and suggest the spray of waves or sand kicked up in the moment. The composition is full of life and movement. The way the man holds the woman, lifting her off the ground, conveys a sense of weightlessness, joy, and passion. Her suspended position, with one leg slightly bent and her body leaning toward him, gives the piece a romantic fluidity. Their embrace and the kiss are the focal points, pulling the viewer into their moment of connection. The figures are rendered with flowing, overlapping lines, creating an intimate and organic connection between them. This contrasts with the steadier, more grounded background strokes, emphasizing the couple’s movement and unity against the stillness of the environment. The figures are suggestive rather than overly detailed, leaving room for interpretation and emotion. The simplicity of the lines focuses attention on their intertwined forms, while the beach setting is hinted at through minimal elements, like faint horizontal strokes to represent the horizon. The title, "Love is in the Air," paired with the beach setting and the figures' elevated, suspended pose, suggests freedom, joy, and the transcendent nature of love. The embrace feels both deeply personal and universally relatable, inviting the viewer to share in the emotion of the moment. Unlike the solitary introspection of the previous works, this piece radiates outward. It’s celebratory, filled with vitality and human connection, offering a thematic counterpoint to the "Nude in Interior" series while retaining the same gestural expressiveness. The embrace recalls romantic depictions of couples in art, such as Auguste Rodin’s "The Kiss", but the loose, gestural style connects it more with modernist and abstract movements. There’s also a sense of cinematic drama in the pose, reminiscent of iconic romantic moments in film. The ochre paper, minimal background, and fluid brushwork work together to conjure the atmosphere of a beach without explicitly detailing it. This minimalism allows the focus to remain on the couple while still anchoring them in a specific, evocative setting. "Love is in the Air" is a vibrant, celebratory work that captures the essence of passion and connection. The artist's use of ultramarine on ochre paper, combined with their fluid, expressive technique, creates a dynamic interplay of color, movement, and emotion. This piece stands out in its thematic shift toward love and unity while retaining the stylistic cohesion of the series, demonstrating the artist’s versatility and ability to evoke a broad spectrum of human experiences. It’s a beautiful testament to the power of simplicity in conveying profound emotion. 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. Find original Paula Craioveanu paintings, works on paper and other art on 1stDibs. Next: Works on display - December 2024, Context Art Miami.

Creator:

Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)

Creation Year:

2024

Dimensions:

Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)

Medium:

Paper,Tempera

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Forest Hills, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts. 1stDibs: LU2240213877442

$800

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Love is in the Air ultramarine blue nude couple by Paula Craioveanu
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