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Sanda Iliescu
Sonnet X
2019

About the Item

Shakespeare's "Sonnet X" is evoked in the abstract colorful form and Paul Klee-like imagery of this painting by UVa Professor or Architecture and Art and Rome Prize winner Sanda Iliescu. She writes of her Sonnet series: "I made these paintings after coming home from a month long period in Switzerland on an arts fellowship. I had enjoyed this time of intense painting, but I had also missed my husband very much, and when I came home I found myself drawn to read Shakespeare’s sonnets, many of which concern love and the writer’s feelings for the beloved. I read carefully and took notes. At some point I decided to try to make paintings that would convey something of the mood of each sonnet. So that’s what these paintings are: mood pieces based on Shakespeare’s sonnets. Some of the paintings, like the sonnets, are melancholy, even dark; some are more joyful. Somewhere in the painting I would write the first line of the sonnet. The mood is defined by the colors I choose, by the types of lines I draw, and by the relationship of the often square patches of color in the pieces and the free flowing lines running through and around them. I think of it as a kind of dance that takes place between lines and colors." Sanda Iliescu’s practice spans the media of painting, drawing, and collage. Outside the studio, she makes murals and public art installations, some with students at the University of Virginia, where she is Associate Professor of Art and Architecture. Born in Romania, Iliescu received her BSE in Civil Engineering and M.Arch in Architecture, both from Princeton University. Her professional awards include The Rome Prize, a McDowell fellowship in painting, The Distinguished Artist Award of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and, in 2018, the Truninger Art Fellowship in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2009, the University of Virginia Press published Iliescu’s book The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art. Tentatively titled Looking Deeply: Essays on Art and Architecture, her current book manuscript will be published by Rutledge Academic Press in 2021.

Creator:
Sanda Iliescu (1960, American, Romanian)
Creation Year:
2019
Dimensions:
Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Charlottesville, VA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU127625078612

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