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Encounter in the dawn |
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Waiting / Asteptare |
I love to understand the meanings of the written words hanged in trees branches, in the eyelids of a rising sun and in the mirroring waters and to admire artworks in museums or exhibition centers.
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Song between day and night / Cantec intre zi si noapte |
Let me share with you some of the classical and contemporary artworks made by Sabin Balasa, Romanian painter "representative of Cosmic romanticism / reprezentant al romantismului cosmic" (as he described himself) .
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Universe of Love / Universul Iubirii |
Sabin Balasa (1932-2008) is one of the contemporary Romanian artists: painter, writer, author and director of animated painting movies, who gratuated the Bucharest Fine Arts Institute in 1955.
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Icarus / Icar - mural painting |
"Icarus/ Icar"
"Prometheus/ Prometeu"
"Dochia's Legend / Legenda Dochiei"
or Romanians heroes as:
" Decebalus / Decebal"
"Stephen the Great/ Stefan cel Mare".
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Moldova - mural painting |
Many of his paintings inspired by the history and poetry of Romanian people were realised as large mural fresco paintings
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Luceafarul Eminescu |
"Amphiteheatre/ Amfiteatru",
" Homage to the founders / Omagiu Intemeietorilor"
"Generations/ Generatii"
"Triumph of life/ Triumful vietii"
"Atomic Disaster/ Dezastru Atomic"
"Exodus towards the light / Exodul spre lumina"
"Luceafarul (The Evening-Star)- Eminescu"
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Exodus towards the light / Exodul spre lumina |
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Seniorii |
Other murals were painted at "The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies/ Academia de Studii Economice, Bucuresti" and "Low Danube University of Galati/ Universitatea "Dunarea de Jos" din Galati" or in private residences.
His animated painting movies were realized in the artist's youth in the '70s, and were appreciated internationally: " The City/ Orasul" "The Wave/ Valul" "Phoenix Bird / Pasarea Phoenix" "Return to the Future/ Intoarcere in viitor" "The Galaxy/ Galaxia" "Ode/ Oda" "Exodus Towards the Light/ Exodul spre lumina".
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Warriors/ Razboinicii |
His galleries were admired at Roma, Moscow, Stockholm, Tbilisi, Israel, Greece, and many of his paintings obtained prizes at international painting contests: very important beings "Gold Medal" at "European Painting Competition" in Italy in 1965 and the title " Accademico delle Nazioni" in Italy in 1983.
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Springtime |
Sabin Balasa
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Nicolae si Elena Ceausescu |
For those who are not familiar with Romanian history, Nicolae Ceausescu (26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was the President of Romania from 1974 to 1989, President of the Romanian Council of State from 1967 to 1989 and Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was known as a Romanian Communist Dictator who was overthrown in a Romanian revolution in December 1989. He and his wife, Elena Ceausescu, were sentenced to death by a military court in a televised court session and were executed on December 25th,1989 by a firing squad in Targoviste, Romania.
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Exodus |
Returning to Sabin Balasa, I like his abstract works, his imagination and his "blue" obsession and I consider his "Cosmic Wedding/ Nunta Cosmica" a perfect symbol of his unusual art.
"At the full of colors wedding of the World,
Has found a place of honor
Sabin Balasa's Blue,
Lighting by Absolute!"
"La nunta de culori a lumii,
Un loc de cinste şi-a făcut
Albastrul lui Sabin Bălaşa,
Iluminat de absolut."
fragment " Blue Bereaved/ Albastru-ndoliat", poem wrote by Adrian Paunescu to pay homage at his death.
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Cosmic wedding / Nunta Cosmica |