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Trained in both painting and architecture, Dragoș Morărescu emerged from the Bucharest art scene of the 1940s as an artist whose work bridged the fine and decorative arts. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts between 1944 and 1947 and completed his architectural studies at the Faculty of Architecture in 1949. His formation was shaped by courses in Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanian art history taught by Professor I. D. Ștefănescu. Working across tempera, gouache, pastel, metal sculpture, printmaking and fresco, Morărescu developed a distinctive visual language grounded in structural discipline and ornamental sensibility. He made his debut in 1943 at the Official Salon of Decorative Arts held at the Romanian Athenaeum, where he received First Mention. His oeuvre evolved in thematic cycles such as Autochthonous Mythologies, Metamorphosis of Forms, Figures of Romanian Spirituality, and Bucharest – Aspects of Yesterday and Today. These series reveal an artist deeply engaged with transformation of cultural symbols into a contemporary visual language. Morărescu’s sustained interest in the human figure, frequently noted in his own writings, reflects a pursuit of psychological depth rather than mere formal likeness. Although his name remains relatively obscure within the mainstream narratives of Romanian art history, Morărescu’s versatility and intellectual formation placed him among those post-war artists who sought to reconcile tradition, architecture, and the plastic arts into a coherent and modern aesthetic discourse.
