A gouache study of a small arrangement of dried paper flowers — the kind made in villages for feast days — painted with the same attention that the painter would give to real flowers, treating the artifice of the subject not as a limitation but as the precise point. These are flowers that have refused to die.
The colours of paper flowers are different from natural pigments — they are printing inks and synthetic dyes, and recording them honestly required adjustments to a palette built around natural colour. The background was left white.
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.
