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FUTURE LOVE - original large painting by Paula Craioveanu 31x39in

2025

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"Future Love", acrylic on canvas, 31x39in, 80x100cm Large original, one-of-a-kind, painting. Shipped rolled in a tube. Free shipping for items over $500 with 1stDibs code FREESHIP This painting, Future Love, fits strikingly well within the Cyberpunk Dystopia framework. It captures a moment of intense intimacy between a hyper-realistic humanoid robot and a nude woman, blending human vulnerability with synthetic perfection. The juxtaposition of chrome and flesh—two traditionally incompatible textures—is central here, and the artist manages it skillfully. The brushwork is expressive and layered, typical of contemporary expressionist realism, merging traditional figurative painting with speculative, sci-fi themes. There’s an evident looseness in the application of paint, particularly in the woman's hair and skin, contrasting the polished precision of the robot's form. This dynamic tension enhances the theme of human vs machine. The metallic reflections on the robot are handled with sophisticated tonal shifts—bluish greys, warm highlights, and subtle rust-like shadows—suggesting not only realism but emotional depth in the synthetic being. The subjects are locked in a moment of pre-kiss tension, a classic romantic motif reimagined in a futuristic context. This evokes the myth of Pygmalion, but with the roles reversed—here, the woman may be the one bringing the robot to emotional life. The work channels influences from H.R. Giger's biomechanical surrealism (especially the organic-meets-industrial design of the background) and the sensuality of Klimt’s human intimacy, but recontextualizes them into a tech-saturated dystopian vision. Themes of technological love, post-human intimacy, and the artificial soul are prominent. It also hints at the loneliness of the future, where meaningful connection might blur the line between organic and synthetic. 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:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 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: LU2240216282232

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