A watercolour made on a hillside in the Apuseni mountains at the specific transition between day and night — the fifteen minutes when the landscape is lit from below by the last warmth of the horizon while the sky above has already gone to a cool blue-purple. The two light sources produce contradictory shadows.
Made in a single session in fading light, the painting preserves the urgency of that temporal constraint in its handling — the washes are decisive and the paper bare where a more considered painter might have added another mark. The restraint was enforced by the disappearing light.
About the artist
Lucian Dumitrescu's paintings start from a constraint — a single colour, a single gesture, a self-imposed restriction on what materials can be used — and explore how much can be made within that constraint before it needs to be released. The minimalist works are the clearest expression of this methodology, but the same underlying logic structures even the more figurative and surrealist pieces.
He trained at the Ion Andreescu Academy of Art in Cluj and maintains his studio there. His watercolours are made on location, typically in the Transylvanian highlands, using a restricted palette mixed before leaving the studio and not augmented in the field. He accepts commissions for minimalist and landscape work.
