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Paula CraioveanuDay Nude on Armchair 1 original painting Paula Craioveanu 39x23in Expressionist2023
2023
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Day (Nude on Armchair 1)/ Part of my "Nudeon Armchair" series. Original painting. size 39x23in / 100x60cm .
Shipped stretched, as it is, ready for hanging from Florida, US.
"Day (Nude on Armchair 1)" – Monochromatic Palette, Expressive Linework, Light Effects.
The use of a limited palette dominated by cool blues and whites creates a serene, ethereal quality. This choice focuses the viewer on form and light rather than distraction from other colors.
The soft, almost unfinished strokes suggest movement or impermanence, adding an emotional or fleeting quality to the work.
The diagonal streaks of light cutting across the figure evoke a sense of environment—perhaps morning light filtering through a window—which brings the scene to life and adds dimensionality.
See also "Night (Nude on Armchair 2)"
"Day (Nude on Armchair 1)", and "Night (Nude on Armchair 2)" are deeply evocative and showcase a mastery of mood, light, and composition. They are less about the physicality of the figure and more about its emotional and spiritual resonance, allowing viewers to interpret and connect with the works on a personal level. They feel like quiet meditations on presence and absence.
Both paintings lack facial detail, enhancing the universality and anonymity of the subject. This abstraction encourages the viewer to project their own interpretations of mood and identity onto the figure.
The reclined, cross-legged positions are relaxed yet controlled, lending the figure a quiet dignity or introspection.
The suggestion of architectural elements (e.g., windowpanes, shadows) in the background adds context and creates an implied narrative or sense of place.
Both paintings evoke a sense of stillness, solitude, and introspection. The figure seems immersed in thought, reflecting on something unseen to the viewer.
The use of light, particularly in the first painting, could symbolizes clarity, revelation, or a fleeting moment of connection with the outside world.
The dripping paint, loose brushwork, and monochromatic tones emphasize the transient and impermanent, both in the physical and emotional realms.
The focus on light and mood echoes the works of Monet or Degas, particularly their interest in capturing a moment’s fleeting essence. The abstraction of form and emotive use of color connect to Expressionist painters like Edvard Munch or Egon Schiele. The faceless figures and reduced details align with modern minimalist trends in art, where simplicity is used to distill emotional or conceptual depth.
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:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 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: LU2240213143902
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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