Teodor HARȘIA, Still Life with Vases and Flowers

oil, cardboard
24 x 31 cm
signed and dated lower right with red: T. Harsia / 67
good state of conservation

Teodor HARȘIA (1914, Filipașu Mare, Mureș - 1987, Cluj-Napoca)
Artistic education: School of Fine Arts in Cluj (1929-1932), under the coordination of professor Catul BOGDAN; "Ion Andreescu" Fine Arts Institute from Cluj (1949-1953).
Between 1948-1984, the artist organized nine personal national exhibitions in Cluj, Bucharest and Târgu Mureș. He was part of the Group of Romanian Artists from Transylvania (1941-1943). In the period 1945-1947 he participated in group exhibitions in Cluj and exhibited massively at the Ardelean Salon (1947).
Starting with the 1950s, he was, for two decades, an acclaimed teacher at the "Ion Andreescu" Fine Arts Institute in Cluj.
"Painting in contact with nature, Harșia developed the image not in the direction of its truthfulness, but in that of the expressive coherence of the color. That is why he deviated from the local tone, so loved by the Barbizonist painting, covering the surface with the thrill of some harmonies in tune with his affective state, which he celebrates. This is what he affirmed while confessing (...): The state, the emotion, is usually old, repeated several times, and tried to achieve it. But I would like to be able to express it in such a way that it seems that it was discovered and experienced for the first time. I want it fresh, not artificial /.../. Somewhere in me is the image of the picture I am chasing, which I am always looking for in nature." (Negoiță Lăptoiu, Forays into Romanian art, vol. VI, Napoca Star Publishing House, 2016, p. 82).