Răzvan Stoica

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Răzvan Stoica (1912–1989) was a Romanian painter formed within the lineage of the classical academic tradition of Romanian painting. His artistic training was shaped under the academic auspices of Eustațiu Stoenescu, whose influence is discernible in the compositional rigour and formal gravity of Stoica’s portraiture. At the same time, a more lyrical, luminous quality in his landscapes recalls the friendly mentorship of Francisc Șirato, whose influence subtly permeates Stoica’s chromatic sensibilities. Working within a mode that reconciles descriptive realism with emotional nuance, Stoica’s oeuvre reveals a discreet eclectism. His compositions, whether portrait or landscape, maintain an initial fidelity to the visible world, only to dissolve, gradually and without ostentation, into a vibration of tonalities that speak to the artist’s own emotive presence. His approach to representation remains sober, sustained by a lucid sense of truthfulness, one that privileges a translation of place not merely in its visible hues but in its dominant chromatic atmosphere.