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The art of Rodica is an art of resolution.. She approaches each
painting without a preconceived vision, drawing with paint directly
on the canvas. Feature by feature emerges spontaneously, until a
balance of color and elements has been achieved. It is during the
later stages of this unfolding process that the story and title of the
final work are revealed to the artist .
Although Rodica completed a course of study in the Academy of Fine
Arts, her approach to painting was not derived from an academic
program . After graduation, she took several years off to raise two
children . But her passion for painting soon compelled her to return
to the studio, which has remained the center of her life for the
past twenty years.
Rodica's early paintings were studies in abstract surrealism . They
included the process of automatism, described by Andre Breton as the
purest form of surrealism . In the late 1980s she discovered the
art of de Chirico, Magritte and Paul Delvaux . She began adding
subtle elements of figuration to help to reveal the story within
each painting .
Rodica's work shows a surprising range of textural effects and fine
detail . Her forte are her intuitive feel for composition and
her color harmonies. Her oeuvre is informed by the study of a many of
artists including Lucas Cranach, Poussin, Tiepolo,
Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and
Helen Frankenthaler. Above all, the ambition of each painting
is to create a unique metaphoric expression and visual poetry. In
that regard, her art shares common ground with other art referred to as
Metarealism .
by Georg Kremer /
Ten Dreams Galleries |
