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"Red Nude", oil on canvas. Original, one-of-a-kind, painting. FRAMED with gold minimalist frame.
Part of "Nude in Interior" solo show, March 2022.
"Red Nude" is a bold and visceral exploration of the human form, employing a striking contrast of warm tones and dramatic composition to convey tension, vulnerability, and emotional intensity.
The figure is central and stretched across the canvas, almost defying gravity as it appears to be balanced precariously on an unseen or minimal support. The pose is unconventional, with exaggerated curvature and extension, creating a sense of tension and fragility. The horizontal orientation emphasizes the figure's elongation and weight, while the tilt of the head and exposed limbs suggest a feeling of surrender or exhaustion, making the viewer feel both unsettled and captivated. The absence of a detailed setting focuses all attention on the figure itself, giving the work a sculptural quality.
The vivid red background dominates the composition and creates an intense emotional impact. Red is often associated with passion, energy, and danger, lending the painting a raw and primal atmosphere. The figure’s pale, flesh-toned hues are laced with strokes of red, orange, and violet, blending into the background and creating a sense of vulnerability or exposure. This merging of figure and ground evokes a sense of unity between the body and the emotional energy surrounding it. Subtle whites are used to highlight anatomical details, giving the figure dimension and texture, while the overall color scheme feels deliberately restrained to focus on emotional impact.
The brushstrokes are expressive and gestural, particularly on the figure, which is painted with dynamic energy. This painterly quality suggests movement, as if the figure is caught in a fleeting moment rather than a static pose. The red background is less detailed, with brushstrokes visible but more subdued, creating a sense of depth and contrast without overwhelming the central subject.
The stark contrast between the figure and the red background creates a dramatic tension, emphasizing the figure's isolation and emotional intensity. The pose and the surrounding red suggest themes of struggle, passion, or even sacrifice. The absence of any setting reinforces the timeless, universal nature of the emotions being expressed.
The exaggerated, stretched pose of the figure suggests strain and fragility, evoking themes of human resilience or vulnerability in the face of adversity. The red background symbolizes life, vitality, or even blood, while the figure's suspended and distorted position hints at themes of mortality or transcendence. By removing specific features or a clear environment, the figure becomes a universal symbol, inviting viewers to project their own emotions or interpretations onto it.
This painting draws from the tradition of Expressionism, where exaggerated forms and bold colors are used to evoke raw emotion rather than realistic representation. Artists like Francis Bacon come to mind, especially in the distorted anatomy and emotionally charged use of color. The emphasis on the human body and its precarious positioning also recalls elements of classical sculpture, reinterpreted here with modern, gestural brushwork and abstraction.
Unlike the previous paintings, which incorporated elaborate interiors and atmospheric settings, this work is stripped down to focus solely on the figure and the emotional energy of the composition.
The warm, saturated tones here are a departure from the cooler or more muted palettes of the other works, amplifying the intensity of this piece. While the earlier paintings invited contemplation, this one demands an immediate, visceral reaction.
This painting is a powerful and evocative exploration of the human form, emotion, and physicality. Its bold use of red and the dynamic, tension-filled pose create a sense of urgency and rawness. The abstraction of the background and the distortion of the body make it feel both personal and universal, leaving a lasting emotional impression. It’s a daring and memorable work that speaks to the viewer on a primal level.
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: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 35.44 in (90 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240211456882
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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