IOAN ANDREESCU. TRUTH AND IMAGINATION

“Andreescu’s artistic vision, unique in Romanian art, was visible from the very beginning and remained remarkably constant throughout his entire body of work. In the artist’s creation, the austerity, the rigor with which he approached the subject, and the simplicity of the composition take on a profound sensitivity, but one that is balanced, pure, sincere, without melodramatic overtones. Nothing is superfluous, nothing is artificial, everything gains expressiveness. These characteristics of Andreescu’s work hold its highest virtues, as well as the extraordinary genius intuition which, even in the absence of a thorough academic training, reveals a great artist. Thus, all the marvelous things Andreescu achieved in painting during his artistic maturity find their original spark in his nuanced formative period, which occupies a truly special place in the artist’s oeuvre, as well as in the history of Romanian art. Through Andreescu’s subtle, penetrating sensitivity, through his ability to transpose his own feelings and aesthetic convictions onto the canvas, his creation represented a true revelation of modernity in Romanian painting.” (Maria Munteanu)