World of a Color

SURREALISM

Artistic and literary avant-garde movement, surrealism begins in the first part of the 20th century

It thus becomes the voice of a group of writers and artists who wanted to change the mentality of a rigid, suffocated society.

In the painting, the path of surrealism was opened by Giorgio de Chirico, when the surrealists turned their attention from literature and poetry to the fine arts …

Vasile Tolan, The music of gesture3, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 100x150 cm

ABSTRACT ART

For more than a century now, the death of Art has been announced either categorically, passionately, or with an “exasperating neutrality.” However, the artists are stubborn to exist and to “lure” us into an alternate world, whose hidden meanings we can only comprehend by experiencing it directly…

IMPRESSIONISM WITH POST-MODERN APPROACHES

We all feel that we are living apocalyptic times. How has this “end of the world” crisis appeared and what does it mean for the artistic movements and for the contemporary artists?…

LYRICAL FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION

“I am happily confused about my painting on many levels, but this is part of how I am using my work, as a tool for knowing and becoming. The experimentation with the blurred lines between matter, gesture and thought-forms, constantly revolves in the elaboration of my process….

ARTE POVERA

Anyone can meet Vasile Mureșanu, Murivale, and know, today, if he arrives in Bucharest in the parking lot in the city center at the intersection between Calea Moșilor and Sfânta Vineri street. A stone’s throw from the extension of the Lipscani or the well-known central churches, St. George New, but also the Old, Corner or Stravropoleos….

Art is like nature, simple and profound, one and different.
– Victor Hugo –

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
– Paul Gauguin –

The true work of art is the shadow of divine perfection.
– Michelangelo –

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
– Oscar Wilde –

We have art available to keep us from dying because of the truth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche –

Art is a huge opening towards everything that is possible.
– Victor Hugo –

Without art, the cruelty of reality would make the world unbearable.
– George Bernard Shaw –

Art people are not bathed in milk, but in the sublime.
– Vasile Ghica –

Once in the art, the nude can become a sanctuary.
– Vasile Ghica –

Art raises its head when beliefs creep up.
– Friedrich Nietzsche –

Art raises its head when beliefs creep up.
– Elbert Hubbard –

Art is also one of countless forms of life.
– Alexandru Vlahuța –

In art and only in art, things can be presented in the perfection of their being.
– Ioan Slavici –

Artwork is always an embodied illusion
– Ioan Slavici –

Simplicity is not a goal in art, but you inadvertently reach it as you get closer to the real meaning of things.
– Constantin Brancusi –

Art purifies the soul from the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso –

Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton –

It is not the idea, but the feeling that gives the art the sublime ease of the symbol: an aspiration enclosed in a representation, here is what art means.
– Blessed Cross –

Art strives to pledge the abyss with hope.
– Vasile Ghica –

What is art? - That something that shapes become style.
– Andre Malraux –

What is important in art, is to vibrate yourself and make others vibrate.
– George Enescu –