73. Goddess of the World [1976]

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73. Goddess of the World [1976]

Sabin Bălaşa

1932, Dobriceni, Olt - 2008, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 10.000 - 18.000

Sold

EUR 38.000

References

DEAC, Mircea, "Sabin Balasa", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1984. BALASA, Tudor, "Sabin Balasa", Official Monitor Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013.

oil on canvas, 81 x 100.5 cm, signed and dated lower right, in ochre, "Sabin Bălașa, (19)76"

Most of Sabin Bălașa's works are set in a fantastic space, a choice largely determined by the use of blue, the dominant color in his creations. Bălașa's blue gives his art the feeling of eternity. His color scheme becomes a spiritual matrix of the Romanian people, having its roots in Eminescu's lyricism and the Miorița myth. The artist encodes visual metaphors through a series of archetypal symbols that he translates into contemporary allegories. However, the essential theme of the cosmic romanticism imagined by Bălașa will remain the human figure. The painter captures people in their youth and gives the female character the status of a leitmotif in his work. Portrayed nude, with more or less articulated features, Bălașa's models sequentially become muses of the rain, mothers of the earth, goddesses or Caryatids of civilization. The human will therefore be consecrated to the artist's dreams and desires. Bălașa's fantastic art, undeniably oriented towards the universe, often submits to an unknown topos and an uncertain time interval. The emotional value of his work is intensified by the visual coagulation of myth, history and the boundless expanse of his imagination.

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