Boats on the Danube Delta (Bărci în Delta Dunării)*
Description
Medium: pastel on paper
Size: 54.5 x 69.5 cm (74.5 x 89.5 cm with frame)
Signed on the front lower right in pencil: "Sorin Adam"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Romanian painter, Sorin Adam graduated in 1996 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where his teachers included Mihai Bandac, Vasile Grigore, Marius Cilievici, Theodor Moraru, and Traian Brădean. He also held a degree from the private Luceafărul Academy of Arts in Bucharest, where he subsequently worked as a university assistant between 1998 and 2002. He became a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania in 1997.
His practice centered on landscape and still life, developed within a Post-Impressionist framework with personal inflections drawn from Fauvism and from the Romanian interwar classical tradition. His pictorial references spanned a broad range — from Seurat, Matisse, Derain, Van Gogh, Delacroix, and Cézanne on the European side, to Ștefan Luchian, Nicolae Tonitza, Nicolae Dărăscu, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Constantin Piliuță, and his own teacher Vasile Grigore within the Romanian tradition. The critical assessment of his work emphasizes that he navigated this dense field of influences toward a coherent personal direction, without recourse to artificial experimentation.
He participated in numerous exhibitions and salons in Romania and abroad.
Exhibitions
"Sorin Adam" Graphic Exhibition and Album Launch, Romanian Academy, 21 October 2019. The present work was reproduced on the exhibition invitation and in the exhibition catalogue.
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