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.

Particularly evocative are his landscapes from Piatra Neamț, Dobroești, Pantelimon and
the Bucharest student campus, where spatial surfaces are articulated through
unsaturated colour fields. These compositions are anchored in a palette of half-tones,
rarely marked by sharp contrasts, and achieved through a refined calibration of
neighbouring tonalities. The result is a visual language both restrained and resonant, a
testament to Stoica’s measured yet deeply felt interpretation of the Romanian
landscape.