Citadel (Citadină)*
Description
Executed in: 1994
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 97 x 97 cm (111.5 x 111.5 cm with frame)
Signed and dated on the front lower right in red: "C. Crăciun; 94"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Description
Constantin Crăciun belongs to the generation of Romanian painters who sought to articulate a personal idiom within the shifting landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Trained in the academic tradition yet receptive to the stylistic ruptures of the interwar period, his work reflects a sustained interest in the dialogue between local subjects and broader European tendencies. His paintings reveal both a rigorous concern for structure and a refined sensitivity to colour - qualities that align him with the realist and post-impressionist currents active in Romania at the time. Crăciun contributed to the consolidation of a visual language attentive to national identity while also engaging in the modernist reconfiguration of figurative representation. Although his œuvre has not yet been the subject of a comprehensive critical reassessment, its historical significance lies in the articulation of a pictorial discourse situated between tradition and innovation—a position that continues to attract the attention of collectors and scholars of Romanian modern art.
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