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Gentle Monsters: Painting and Reflections
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Youll witness a rare experience: the sincere confession of an original artist painter, passionate of the colours strength and its influence on us. Besides getting captivated by Paul Antonescus paintings, youll read about his passion, his motivation, his artistic creed and his technique. Get flooded by the colours of his dreams, take the energy.
The colours of the sunny south of France spring out of Paul Antonescus paintings, assuming captivating forms and relief. Paradise beings and gentle monsters look at you with surprising eyes.
In the picturesque village Saint Paul de Vence, the artist mixes the colours of his imagination with memories of the four countries he lived in and with experience of thirty years of creation and many exhibitions.
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Gentle Monsters - PAUL ANTONESCU
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Published by AuthorHouse 07/11/2012
ISBN: 978-1-4685-0391-3 (e)
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Special thanks to my wife Leila for her support and help.
Many thanks to my friends for their review and feedback.
Translation to English: professor Angela Ivas
Contents
1. The Confession of a Painter
2. The Energy of Color
3. Ready to Receive?
4. Reflection & Resonance
5. Good Colors
6. Harmony
7. The Energy Channel
8. The Drawing-a key to our Imagination
9. My Imaginary World
10. Symbols within Symbols
11. The Woman: Ideal Symbol of Beauty
12. The Eyes, the Birds, the Fish
13. My Gentle Monsters
14. Simple Technique
15. Paintings Illustrated by Verse
16. Gentle Critics
17. List of Paintings in chronological order
18. Epilogue
1. The Confession of a Painter
« Transient in this world,
I tried to fulfill my life by means of absolute love. »
The writer Camil Petrescu
From our first steps, Mother Nature wraps us generously in its universal colors but how discreetly it unveils just a little bit when we want to know and scarcely does it allow us to gain insight into its secrets!
It’s hard for us, profanes, to imitate and steal its colors. How much we learned from the caves drawing the wild with our fingers dipped in mud and leaves. And then we picked up the chalk and our name was Renoir. And we melted ground and flowers coloring with their oil and sometimes our name was Van Gogh.
Devoutly do I come trying to offer my share of color.
The color my eyes can see, that my heart and soul can feel, when my hand strives to catch on canvas a piece of beauty. Sole in front of the canvas, I paint colors with most chromatic energy. The picture evolves in rounded