Romul NUȚIU, Waterfall

oil, canvas
44 x 55 cm
signed lower right in black: Nutiu 
good state of conservation
 

Romul NUȚIU (1932, Harghita, Bihor – 2012, Timișoara)
Artistic education:
Ion Andreescu Institute of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca (1951-1957) under the guidance of professor Petru FEIER.
Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest (1957 - 1958), under the coordination of Master Alexandru CIUCURENCU. Between 1975 and 2011 he held twelve national personal exhibitions in Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest, Sibiu, and Constanța. Abroad, he exhibited in Turin, Italy-1969, Novi Sad, Serbia-1969, and Belgrade 1970. In 2012, a commemorative exhibition was dedicated to him in Timișoara, Banat Museum. He participated in five group exhibitions held in: Arad (2007, 2009, 2011), Galați (1999), and Râmnicu Vâlcea (2011).
Lecturer at the Faculty of Drawing of the University of Timișoara, he started with figurative painting within the limits of traditional realism, with expressionist accents, later moving against the backdrop of the novelties of contemporary art towards a clear interest in chromatic experimentation. Color does not dematerialize in his works, but constantly preserves the initial weight of the elements belonging to the raw, almost geological reality. The objects of the external real world are recovered in their quality as constitutive elements of possible environmental structures, where color is the dominant dynamic factor. ((O. Barbosa, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1976, p.362).