A surrealist seascape in which the sea occupies the sky and the sky lies below the horizon, the inversion producing a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and completely wrong. The quality of the light in both zones is painted with the fidelity of a seascape made from observation.
The horizon line itself is the only horizontal element in the composition, and its position was the last thing decided after the painting was otherwise complete. Moving it three centimetres in either direction changed the reading entirely.
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.
