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		<title>Romanian Musings on Bela Bartok’s Memorial in London  SW7</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bela Bartok was born in the Romanian Banat region, at Sannicolau Mare, the son of a Hungarian father and a Serbian Mother. As one would expect of a sensitive child born in this ethnic mosaic of the Habsburg Empire, young Bartok like his central European contemporary composers, drew his inspiration from the rich ethnic music of Central Europe: the composer’s “Romanian Dances” have long been included in the International musical repertoire and in the memory of the cognoscenti, compositions which reflect indirectly the international currency of Romanian compositions, the same pool from which Georges Enesco or Valentin Lipatti have drawn their inspiration.
The life of Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga (b. 1923) reflects, as one would expect, the historical and political meanders of his country, during the 20th century. By comparison, this presents many commonalities with his Romanian counterparts, who showed an equal enthusiasm at adapting to changing political circumstances, first during the right-wing  nationalist dictatorship, followed by an anti-Stalinist war in the East, on the side of Germany, only to heap praise on a “liberating” Soviet Army and finally to end up as a member of the European Union: not exactly an easy sailing, during stormy times, when many contemporary artists either wrecked their careers, or chose instead to take the heavy road of exile, as was the case of our subject, whose memorial has just been erected in South Kensington.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Some Romanian Musings on Bela Bartok’s Memorial in London<br />
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<div id="attachment_3420" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bella-bartok-sculpture1.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bella-bartok-sculpture1-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="bela bartok sculpture" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-3420" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bella Bartok Memorial in London SW7</p></div>  The unveiling, in London’s South Kensington of a memorial to the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok (1881 Romania – 1945, United States) is not only an acknowledgment  of a composer of International repute, but at the same time an intelligent statement of national values on the world stage. This event ought to offer a moment of reflection and soul-searching to our Romanian friends, and set an example of how  national heritage is best promoted abroad something which the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest is yet to match.<br />
You may well ask, what linkage, if any, may exist between Hungary and Romania in Britain? what exactly are these parallels and what food for thought?</p>
<p><strong>Bela Bartok and Georges Enesco</strong><br />
  <div id="attachment_3459" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/foto-placa-loc-nastere-bb.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/foto-placa-loc-nastere-bb-300x216.jpg" alt="" title="foto-placa-loc-nastere-bb" width="300" height="216" class="size-medium wp-image-3459" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Birth Place of Bela Bartok, Co Timis, Banat, Romania</p></div>At this point one ought perhaps to refresh the general reader’s memory that Bela Bartok was born in the Romanian Banat region, at Sannicolau Mare, the son of a Hungarian father and a Serbian Mother. As one would expect of a sensitive child, born in this ethnic mosaic of the Habsburg Empire, young Bartok, like his central European contemporary composers, drew his inspiration from the rich ethnic music of Central Europe: the composer’s “Romanian Dances” have long been included in the International repertoire and with it in the memory of the cognoscenti. They  demonstrate the international currency of Romanian folk tunes, the same pool from which Geoarges Enesco or Valentin Lipatti have drawn their inspiration.</p>
<div id="attachment_3463" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 270px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/12.Bela-Bartok2.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/12.Bela-Bartok2.jpg" alt="" title="12.Bela-Bartok" width="260" height="320" class="size-full wp-image-3463" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bela Bartok memorial in his native village, in Romania</p></div>  It is perhaps significant that Bartok, Enesco and Lipatti took all the road of exile because of the political changes caused by the Second World War: Bartok left Hungary due to the fascism of Horthy and chose to live his last years in the United States. Here, in spite of all support he was given, he lived with difficulty his uprooting, producing only two compositions: the &#8220;Concerto for Orchestra&#8221; and a Violin Sonata, dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist who was the pupil of Georges Enesco.<br />
Like Bartok, Enesco also left his native land,  to become an exile in Paris, after the war, during  a dark period in the history of the Romanian diaspora. These turned out to be times clouded by recrimination, suspicion, kicks under the belt and wrangles, all with a negative effect on artistic output. Here, in post-war Paris, one felt the rebound of the strong arm of the French Communist Party of Stalinist persuation, doubled by the undercover activities of the Securitate, the Romanian Secret Services, in the hands of which suffered so much Monica Lovinescu, Eugene Ionesco, Virgil Gheorghiu, Horia Vintila, to mention just a few. They were all subjected to a persistent and vicious witch-hunt  in the hands of the French communists and their fellow travelers (viz. Monica Lovinescu, Vintila Horia, et al.).<br />
In the above context it might be revealing to analyse further the effect which such uprooting had on the lives of both Bartok and Enesco.<br />
<div id="attachment_3465" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KunsthistorischesMuseumSanNicolauMareTreasure8.jpg_thumb.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KunsthistorischesMuseumSanNicolauMareTreasure8.jpg_thumb-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="KunsthistorischesMuseumSanNicolauMareTreasure8.jpg_thumb" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-3465" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dacian treasure trove from Bartok&#039;s native village, now in Vienna Art Museum</p></div><br />
<strong>Who is Imre Varga, the artist of Bartok’s Memorial?</strong><br />
 <div id="attachment_3425" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BELA-KUN-Memorial-by-Varga.gif"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BELA-KUN-Memorial-by-Varga-300x195.gif" alt="" title="BELA KUN Memorial by Varga" width="300" height="195" class="size-medium wp-image-3425" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bela Kun memorial by Varga - now removed to the dustbin of history</p></div>  The life of Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga (b. 1923) reflects, as one would expect, the historical and political meanders of his country, during the 20th century. By comparison, this presents many commonalities with his Romanian counterparts, who showed an equal enthusiasm at adapting to changing political circumstances, first during the right-wing  nationalist dictatorship, followed by an anti-Stalinist war in the East, on the side of Germany, only to heap praise, subsequently, on a “liberating” Soviet Army and finally to end up  a member of the European Union: not exactly an easy sailing, on choppy waters, when many contemporary artists either wrecked their careers, or chose instead to take the heavy road of exile. Such was the case of Bartok, whose memorial has just been erected in South Kensington.<br />
However, beyond the above historic details, considering in greater depth such events,  what is tangible today, is the very cultural statement in London, represented by Bartok’s memorial statue. This is proof of some perseverance in the face of a diminishing Memory and one must salute the acknowledgment of an errant son of the Banat province and a friend of Romania, who towers above the narrow confines of past chauvinist and irredentist propaganda.  For the Banat of Timisoara, that historical province integrated to the Kingdom of Romania after WWI, offered the World, artists, poets, composers and writers, amongst whom, more recently one should not forget Herta Muller, the 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature and like bartok, a native of the Romanian Banat.</p>
<p>http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/2009/10/herta-muller-the-journey-to-the-2009-nobel-prize-for-literature/</p>
<p><div id="attachment_3468" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bartok-bela-GRAVE.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bartok-bela-GRAVE.jpg" alt="" title="bartok bela GRAVE" width="300" height="446" class="size-full wp-image-3468" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bartok&#039;s grave in Budapest (courtesy: findagrave.com)</p></div>
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		<title>Ganduri Romanesti despre Bella Bartok  la Londra</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dezvelirea statuii compozitorului Maghiar Bella Bartok in cartierul South Kensigton din Sudvestul Londrei reprezinta o recunoastere in plus, nu numai a celebrului compozitor de talie universala, dar si un exemplu de promovare inteligenta a valorilor nationale in lume. Acest act ofera un moment de reflectie si poate comparativ cu modul Romanesc de promovare a valorilor nationale, pe plan international, de cumetriile Institutului Cultural Roman, Bucuresti.

Ei, o sa ma intrebati, poate, "ce are sula cu prefectura"? ce legatura aleatorica ar exista intre aceste idei, intre astfel de paralele si implicit de indemnuri?


<strong>Bella Bartok si George Enescu</strong>
Fara a ma pierde in explicatii alambicate, doar in cateva randuri, ar trebui sa amintim ca Bella Bartok s-a nascut in Banatul Romanesc, la  Sannicolau Mare, ditr-un tata maghiar si o mama de etnie Sarba. Cum este si firesc, pentru un tanar cu evidente sensibilitati fata de mediul in care s-a nascut, Bartok s-a inspirat, asa cum au facut-o contemporanii si predecesorii sai din sec XIX, din fondul muzicii etnice din Sudestul Europei: "Dansurile Romanesti" ale compozitorului  au intrat de mult in repertoriul mondial si implicit in memoria si sensibilitatea publicului civilizat si avizat, sensibilitate care reflecta indirect valorile muzicii Romanesti - aceeasi sursa din care s-au inspirat si contemporanii sai, George Enescu sau Dinu Lipatti.

Este poate semnificativ ca atat Bartok cat si Enescu s-au exilat din cauza schimbarilor politice survenite ca urmare al celui de al doilea razboi mondial: Bartok s-a destzarat datorita fascizarii Ungariei lui Horthy, ca sa se stabileasca in Statele Unite, unde, in ciuda asistentei financiare si artistice primite, si-a trait cu dificultate exilul, unde a murit dupa cinci ani. In aceasta perioada de destzarare a compus doar doua lucrari: Concertul pentru Orchestra si o sonata de vioara pentru Yehudi Menuhin - violonistul care a fost scolit de Enescu... 
George Enescu, impreuna cu sotia lui si-au parasit tara dupa razboi, ca sa-si traiasca ultimii ani de viata la Paris, intr-o perioada intunecata a diasporei romanesti. Aceasta din urma a fost bantuita de recriminari, suspiciuni, lovituri sub centura si contraziceri - cu efecte inevitabile negative. Aici, in Parisul postbelic,  bratul omniprezent  al simpatizantilor francezi ai Stalinismului,  cat si coada sobolanului securist  au fost proactive, asa cum au suferit, din experienta proprie, Monica Lovinescu, Eugene Ionesco, Virgil Gheorghiu, Horia Vintila, s.a.,  indurand persecutia impinsa pana chiar la procesul vrajitaorelor.
Poate  ar fi interesant de a reflecta mai adanc asupra efectului  exilului asupra acestor compozitori contemporani, Bartok si Enescu.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3418" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bartok-blue-plaque-SW7.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bartok-blue-plaque-SW7-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="bartok blue plaque SW7" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-3418" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bella Bartok Blue Plaque in London SW7</p></div>
<p><strong>Memoria Diasporei despre Bartok si Enescu la Londra<br />
</strong><br />
Dezvelirea statuii compozitorului Maghiar Bella Bartok in cartierul South Kensigton din Sudvestul Londrei reprezinta o recunoastere in plus, nu numai a celebrului compozitor de talie universala, dar si un exemplu de promovare inteligenta a valorilor nationale in lume. Acest act ofera un moment de reflectie si poate comparativ cu modul Romanesc de promovare a valorilor nationale, pe plan international, de cumetriile Institutului Cultural Roman, Bucuresti.</p>
<p>Ei, o sa ma intrebati, poate, &#8220;ce are sula cu prefectura&#8221;? ce legatura aleatorica ar exista intre aceste idei, intre astfel de paralele si implicit de indemnuri?</p>
<p><strong>Bella Bartok si George Enescu</strong><br />
Fara a ma pierde in explicatii alambicate, doar in cateva randuri, ar trebui sa amintim ca Bella Bartok s-a nascut in Banatul Romanesc, la  Sannicolau Mare, ditr-un tata Maghiar si o mama de etnie Sarba. Cum este si firesc, pentru un tanar cu evidente sensibilitati fata de mediul in care s-a nascut, Bartok s-a inspirat, asa cum au facut-o contemporanii si predecesorii sai din sec XIX, din fondul muzicii etnice din Sudestul Europei: &#8220;Dansurile Romanesti&#8221; ale compozitorului  au intrat demult in repertoriul mondial si implicit in memoria si sensibilitatea publicului civilizat si avizat, sensibilitate care reflecta indirect valorile muzicii Romanesti &#8211; aceeasi sursa din care s-au inspirat si contemporanii sai, George Enescu sau Dinu Lipatti.</p>
<p>Este poate semnificativ ca atat Bartok cat si Enescu s-au exilat din cauza schimbarilor politice survenite ca urmare al celui de al doilea razboi mondial: Bartok s-a destzarat datorita fascizarii Ungariei lui Horthy, ca sa se stabileasca in Statele Unite, unde, in ciuda asistentei financiare si artistice primite, si-a trait cu dificultate exilul, murind dupa cinci ani. In aceasta perioada de destzarare a compus doar doua lucrari: Concertul pentru Orchestra si o Sonata pentru vioara dedicata lui Yehudi Menuhin &#8211; violonistul care a fost scolit de Enescu&#8230;<br />
George Enescu, impreuna cu sotia lui si-au parasit tara dupa razboi, ca sa-si traiasca ultimii ani de viata la Paris, intr-o perioada intunecata a diasporei romanesti. Aceasta din urma a fost bantuita de recriminari, suspiciuni, lovituri sub centura si contraziceri &#8211; cu efecte inevitabile negative. Aici, in Parisul postbelic,  bratul omniprezent  al simpatizantilor francezi ai Stalinismului,  cat si coada sobolanului securist  au fost proactive, asa cum au suferit, din experienta proprie, Monica Lovinescu, Eugene Ionesco, Virgil Gheorghiu, Horia Vintila, s.a.,  indurand persecutia impinsa pana chiar la procesul vrajitaorelor (viz. Monica Lovinescu, Vintila Horia, s.a).<br />
Poate  ar fi interesant de a reflecta mai adanc asupra efectului  exilului asupra acestor compozitori contemporani, Bartok si Enescu.</p>
<div id="attachment_3419" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bella-bartok-sculpture.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bella-bartok-sculpture-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="bella bartok sculpture" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-3419" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Belle Bartok memorial, London SW7 by Imre Varga</p></div>
<p><strong>Statuia din Londra a compozitorului Bella Bartok si sculptorul Maghiar Imre Varga<br />
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<p>Cariera sculptorului <strong>Imre Varga</strong> (n. 1923) reflecta meandrele istorice si labirintul transformarilor politice a scenei Maghiare dinainte, din timpul si dupa cel de al doilea razboi mondial. Asa cum este de asteptat, viata si activitatea sculptorului Maghiar nu poate fi mult deosebita fata de cea a confratilor lui Romani din aceeasi perioada, care, cu acelasi entuziasm si-au intors cojocul pe dos, nu odata, dar de mai multe ori, reinventandu-se din nationalisti in luptatori antistalinisti pe frontul de Est, de partea Germaniei Fasciste si iarasi in artisti cantand osanale cotropitorilor Sovietici, ca mai apoi sa reprezinte o realitate mai putin sanguina, a unei tari membre a Uniunii Europene: adaptivitate  in ape tulburi greu de navigat, in care multi conationali ori au esuat, ori au preferat, (intocmai exemplului subiectului din South Kensigton, care il admiram astazi), sa isi ia drumul greu al exilului.</p>
<p>Dar analizand cursul Istoriei, care nu ia in consideratie astfel de mizilicuri, ce ramane important pentru noi este obiectul insusi si ideea de a ridica la Londra o statuie a lui Bartok, initiativa si perseverenta pentru care trebuie sa ne dam jos palaria si sa salutam un fiu al Banatului si un prieten al Romaniei, dincolo de limitele inguste ale nationalismului sovin.<br />
Banatul, aceasta provincie istorica, o parte din care a fost integrata Romaniei dupa Primul Razboi Mondial, a oferit, de-a lungul veacurilor, artisti, poeti si scriitori, printre care, mai recent, se numara si Herta Muller, a carei opera literara reflecta realitatea Romaneasca postbelica, pentru care a primit premiul Nobel (q.v. articolul anterior din Centre for Romanian studies): &#8220;Herta Muller &#8211; drumul spre Premiul Nebel pentru Literatura 2009&#8243;:</p>
<p>http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/2009/10/herta-muller-%E2%80%93-the-journey-to-the-2009-nobel-prize-for-literature/</p>
<div id="attachment_3425" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BELA-KUN-Memorial-by-Varga.gif"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BELA-KUN-Memorial-by-Varga-300x195.gif" alt="" title="BELA KUN Memorial by Varga" width="300" height="195" class="size-medium wp-image-3425" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bela Kun memorial by Varga - now removed to the dustbin of history</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3426" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bela-kun-memorial-.gif"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bela-kun-memorial--300x225.gif" alt="" title="bela kun memorial" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-3426" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Detail of Varga&#039;s memorial to Bela Kun, now removed to a scrapyard of communist sculptures</p></div>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
NOTA de Subsol:<br />
Pentru cei care nu cunosc istoria Europei din preajma primului razboi mondial ar trebui de consemnat, succint, ca acest Bela Kun, nascut KUHN, in comuna Lelei din Ardeal, in anul 1886, a fost educat la Liceul Reformat din Cluj. Recrutat in armata Imperiului Habsburgic, Kun a fost trimis pe frontul de Est, unde a fost luat prizonier de catre Rusi.  Aflat in captivitate Bela Kun a fost recrutat in Partidul Bolsevic, in cadrul caruia a creeat ramura comunistilor Maghiari.<br />
Reintors in Ungaria, in perioada tulbure a dezintegrarii Imperiului Habsburgic, Bela Kun a gasit terenul fertil pentru conditiile unei revolutii bolsevice (sustinute cu fonduri obtinute dela Lenin care l-a intalnit in Rusia). Acestea i-au permis sa creeze efemera &#8220;Republica Sovietica Maghiara&#8221;, care a durat mai putin de sapte luni de zile, inainte de a fi desfiintata de interventia Armatei Regale Romane, la 1 August 1919 &#8211; iar restul este istorie. </p>
<p>Sculptorul compozitorului Bartok este acelasi care a lucrat in Ungaria, in stilul  &#8220;Artei cu Tendinta&#8221;, din perioada &#8220;hei-rupista&#8221; a regimului comunist Ungar.<br />
Pe acest teren ideologic fertil, Imre Varga a avut comenzi ale &#8220;organelor de Partid si de Stat&#8221; ca sa creeze, printre altele, si imensul grup statuar glorificandu-l pe Bela Kun (vezi ilustratiile de mai sus): deci om de nadejde &#8211; omul zilei! Acestea se pot inca &#8220;admira&#8221; in parcul de &#8220;curiozitati&#8221; dela Budapesta, unde au fost deplasate toate creatile de propaganda comunista ale Realismului Socialist.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria MESTEROU - Retrospectiva Pictura, Dreux, Franta (14 Oct. 2011 - 27 Nov. 2011)
L’univers de Maria Mestérou est un monde fait de mystérieux objets. L’espace qui les contient communique souvent avec l’étendue des horizons éloignés, de la mer. L’étrange charge que portent ces objets transfigure aussi le paysage, le plein air dans lequel ils sont placés. Ils font parfois la place à un personnage non moins mystérieux, sachant partager leur silence et entretenir le dialogue avec celui qui regarde. Ce ne sont pas des natures mortes dans le sens usuel du terme, c’est une insolite figuration. Peut-être la recherche d’un genre de dimension perdue ou le surnaturel trouverait forme dans le naturel, lui transférant une lumière d’attente, l’attente de la métamorphose finale. Les objets sont réunis pour un moment précis, d’où jaillit une beauté sereine. Leur rayonnement transcende leur apparence et prend des lueurs cosmiques. Le sensible sert le transcendantal dans un échange avec le spectateur, et cet échange est déjà de l’ordre de l’affectif.
Valérian Bryn
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3381" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 434px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/MESTEROU-affiche-web.jpg"><img src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/MESTEROU-affiche-web.jpg" alt="" title="MESTEROU-affiche-web" width="424" height="600" class="size-full wp-image-3381" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Maria Mesterou, Retrospective de peinture, Dreux, Octobre-Novembre 2011</p></div>
<p><strong>Maria MESTEROU &#8211; Retrospectiva Franta (14 Oct. 2011 &#8211; 27 Nov. 2011)</strong></p>
<p>L’univers de <strong>Maria Mestérou</strong> est un monde fait de mystérieux objets. L’espace qui les contient communique souvent avec l’étendue des horizons éloignés, de la mer. L’étrange charge que portent ces objets transfigure aussi le paysage, le plein air dans lequel ils sont placés. Ils font parfois la place à un personnage non moins mystérieux, sachant partager leur silence et entretenir le dialogue avec celui qui regarde. Ce ne sont pas des natures mortes dans le sens usuel du terme, c’est une insolite figuration. Peut-être la recherche d’un genre de dimension perdue ou le surnaturel trouverait forme dans le naturel, lui transférant une lumière d’attente, l’attente de la métamorphose finale. Les objets sont réunis pour un moment précis, d’où jaillit une beauté sereine. Leur rayonnement transcende leur apparence et prend des lueurs cosmiques. Le sensible sert le transcendantal dans un échange avec le spectateur, et cet échange est déjà de l’ordre de l’affectif.<br />
<strong>Valérian Bryn</strong></p>
<p>Née en Roumanie, diplômée de l’Institut des Arts Plastiques de Bucarest, commence sa carrière d’artiste dans des expositions officielles. Faisant partie d’un groupe de jeunes artistes non-conformistes, peint pendant de longs séjours de « plein air » dans un village des Carpates. Part pour la France à l’occasion d’une exposition personnelle de peinture en 1970, et décide d’y rester. S’installe à Paris et reçoit la nationalité française.<br />
Un atelier de la Ville de Paris lui permet de se consacrer pleinement à la peinture et à l’estampe. Dès son arrivée, conçoit et imprime ses œuvres en sérigraphie, les édite et les diffuse avec les Éditions La Tortue, Pierre Hautot, Art Extension, Rombaldi (Paris), ainsi que les « Éditions Galleries » de Melbourne (Australie).<br />
Participe avec ces éditeurs et galeries à quelques expositions internationales, est invitée aux principales biennales de l’estampe.<br />
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De nombreuses expositions personnelles dans les Galeries La Tortue, Pierre Hautot (Paris), Jan De Maere (Bruxelles), J-M. Cupillard (Grenoble), Éditions Galleries (Melbourne). Après 1985 réduit son activité de graveur-sérigraphe pour se consacrer encore davantage à la peinture. Expose pendant longtemps au Salon Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, ensuite au Salon d’Automne dont elle devient membre sociétaire.<br />
Travaille avec la Galerie Rolf Wahl (Paris), mais aussi avec les galeries La Pochade, de Champvermeil, Catherine Guerard (Paris), Catherine Fernet (Bruxelles) et Cegrac (La Corogne, Espagne). Crée des cartes de vœux pour U.N.E.S.C.O. Réalise des peintures murales, commandes d’État au titre de 1%, pour quelques écoles dans la Région parisienne.<br />
Œuvres dans les collections de l’État français, de la Ville de Paris, de la Préfecture des Hauts-de-Seine, de la Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, de la fondation Pernot-Ricard, du Musée de Gravelines. Œuvres dans quelques fondations et collections officielles aux États-Unis et dans de nombreuses collections privées en France et dans le monde entier.<br />
Médaille de Bronze du Mérite Français pour les Arts Plastiques. Prix du Salon de Vésinet 1977. Invitée régulièrement pour enseigner la peinture et ses techniques, dans des stages de formation à la Manufacture des Gobelins et Mobilier National (Paris). Dernière exposition personnelle : Galerie Étienne de Causans, Paris, 2010.</p>
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		<title>Carmen Sylva, Elena Vacarescu and the British Composer Sir Hubert Parry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This beautiful Queen Anne house @ nr 17 Kensington Square has the largest staircase in the square.  Kensington Square, 17,  was the home of Hubert Parry. His eldest daughter inherited the house in 1932. She was married to Lord Ponsonby, leader of the Labour opposition in the House of Lords. In 1936 Lord Ponsonby produced a detailed and well-researched history of Kensington Square.

A prolific musician, composer and from 1885  Director of the Royal Academy of Music who nursed a whole generation of British composers, Hubert Parry is much forgotten today except for his piece sang by riotous crowds at the last night of the Proms set on Blake’s poem “Jerusalem”. He composed chamber music, oratorios and symphonies.
On a more exotic note he set to music “The Soldier’s Tent” a poem by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania and Helene Vacaresco, which at the time of the Boer War was greatly en vogue raising the spirits of the British public at home.

The Soldier’s Tent 
The Queen of Romania wrote the poem "The Soldier's tent" put to music by Sir Herbert Parry - a song popular during the Boer War]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3069" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/P1080150.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3069" title="P1080150" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/P1080150-300x228.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="228" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">London W8 Kensington Square - home of composer Herbert Parry</p></div>
<p>This beautiful Queen Anne house @ nr 17 Kensington Square has the largest staircase in the square.  Kensington Square, 17,  was the home of Hubert Parry. His eldest daughter inherited the house in 1932. She was married to Lord Ponsonby, leader of the Labour opposition in the House of Lords. In 1936 Lord Ponsonby produced a detailed and well-researched history of Kensington Square.</p>
<p>A prolific musician, composer and from 1885  Director of the Royal Academy of Music who nursed a whole generation of British composers, Hubert Parry is much forgotten today except for his piece sang by riotous crowds at the last night of the Proms set on Blake&#8217;s poem &#8220;Jerusalem&#8221;. He composed chamber music, oratorios and symphonies.<br />
On a more exotic note he set to music &#8220;The Soldier&#8217;s Tent&#8221; a poem by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania and Helene Vacaresco, which at the time of the Boer War was greatly en vogue raising the spirits of the British public at home.</p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><em><strong>The Soldier&#8217;s Tent </strong></em></span></p>
<div id="attachment_3070" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 331px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Carmen-Sylva-Badea3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3070" title="Carmen Sylva Badea" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Carmen-Sylva-Badea3.jpg" alt="" width="321" height="480" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Queen of Romania wrote the poem &quot;The Soldier&#39;s tent&quot; put to music by Sir Herbert Parry - a song popular during the Boer War</p></div>
<p>Across the mountains the mist hath drawn<br />
A cov&#8217;ring of bridal white;<br />
The plains afar make lament, and mourn<br />
That the flutt&#8217;ring veil of the mist-wreaths born<br />
Hath hidden the mountains from sight.</p>
<p>The soldier lay smiling peacefully<br />
Asleep in his tent on the sward,<br />
The moon crept in and said: &#8220;Look at me,<br />
A glance from thy sweetheart am I, for thee!&#8221;<br />
But he answered: &#8220;I have my sword.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then the rustling wind drew softly near,<br />
Played round him with whispers light:<br />
&#8220;I am the sigh of thy mother dear,<br />
The sighs of thy mother am I, dost hear?&#8221;<br />
But he answered: &#8220;I have the fight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then night sank down from the dark&#8217;ning sky<br />
Round the sleeper, and murmured: &#8220;Rest,<br />
Thy sweetheart&#8217;s veil o&#8217;er thy face doth lie!&#8221;<br />
But he answered: &#8220;No need of it have I,<br />
For the banner doth cover me best.&#8221;</p>
<p>By his tent the river, clear and wide,<br />
Rolled onward its silver flood,<br />
And said: &#8220;I am water, the cleansing tide<br />
More blessèd than aught in the world beside.&#8221;<br />
But he answered: &#8220;I have my blood.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then Sleep drew near to his tent, and low<br />
She whispered with soothing breath:<br />
&#8220;I am Sleep, the healer of ev&#8217;ry woe,<br />
The dearest treasure of man below.&#8221;<br />
But the soldier replied: &#8220;I have Death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Across the mountains the mist hath drawn</p>
<div id="attachment_1365" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 278px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/blouse-roumaine-cover.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1365" title="blouse roumaine cover" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/blouse-roumaine-cover.jpg" alt="" width="268" height="298" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Herbert Parry  encounter with  Carmen Sylva and Helene Vacaresco is illustrated in &quot;Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women&quot;</p></div>
<p>A cov&#8217;ring of bridal white;<br />
The plains afar make lament, and mourn<br />
That the flutt&#8217;ring veil of the mist-wreaths born<br />
Hath hidden the mountains from sight.”</p>
<p>(Translation by Alma Strettell and Carmen Sylva,<br />
after Hélène Vacaresco The Bard of the Dimbovitza)<br />
Set to music by Sir C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)</p>
<p><a title="Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women" href="http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Carmen Sylva &#8211; reine Elisabeth de Roumanie&#8221; (Gabriel Badea-Paun) aux Editions &#8220;Via Romana&#8221;, 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris: GABRIEL BADEA-PAÜN signe sa biographie "Carmen Sylva Reine Elisabeth de Roumanie" Editions Via Romana
Né en 1973 à Sinaïa, Roumanie, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de prestige sur l’histoire de l’art, Monsieur Badea-Paun est agrégé de L’université Paris IV Sorbonne, DEA en histoire de l’art, avec un mémoire sur Les portraits de la Famille de Hohenzollern par Philip de Laszlo. Sa thèse à Paris IV Sorbonne sous la direction du Professeur Bruno Foucart a eu pour sujet Antonio de La Gandara, le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint et dessiné.

Monsieur Gabriel Badea-Paun est éagalement l’auteur de plusieures monographies ainsi que d’articles de l’histoire de l’art dans des revues de specialité en France et en Roumanie. Son dernier ouvrage sur la Reine Elisabeth de Roumanie, vient de parraitre en France aux editions Via Romana.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3060" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 409px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Gabriel-B-P1.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3060" title="Gabriel B-P" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Gabriel-B-P1-768x1024.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="531" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gabriel Badea-Paun, auteur de la biographie de la Reine Elisabeth de Roumanie</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>Gabriel Badea-Paun</strong></span></p>
<p>Né en 1973 à Sinaïa, Roumanie, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de prestige sur l&#8217;histoire de l&#8217;art, Monsieur Badea-Paun est agrégé de L&#8217;université Paris IV Sorbonne, DEA en histoire de l’art, avec un mémoire sur <em>Les portraits de la Famille de Hohenzollern par Philip de Laszlo</em>. Sa thèse à Paris IV Sorbonne sous la direction du Professeur Bruno Foucart a eu pour sujet <em>Antonio de La Gandara, le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint et dessiné.</em></p>
<p><em>Monsieur </em><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>Gabriel Badea-Paun </strong><span style="color: #000000;">est </span></span>é<span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">agalement l&#8217;auteur de plusieures monographies ainsi que d&#8217;articles de l&#8217;histoire de l&#8217;art dans des revues de specialit</span></span>é<span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"> en France et en Roumanie. Son dernier ouvrage sur la Reine </span></span>Elisabeth<span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"> de Roumanie, vient de parraitre en France aux editions Via Romana.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></span></p>
<div id="attachment_3061" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 331px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Carmen-Sylva-Badea2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3061" title="Carmen Sylva Badea" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Carmen-Sylva-Badea2.jpg" alt="" width="321" height="480" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Carmen Sylva - reine Elisabeth de Roumanie, Editions Via Romana , 2011</p></div>
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		<title>Maria MESTEROU (France) artist painter  &#8211; her work on the conservation of Orthodox images</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il m’est arrivé d’avoir à faire à une vaste gamme de techniques picturales, allant de la classique peinture sur toile, passant par celles sur plaques de cuivre et sur bois, jusqu’à la détrempe à l’œuf sur tissu non tendu sur châssis, comme ce fut le cas pour un très ancien voile grec couvert de beaucoup de scènes de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments, dominées par deux grandes icônes de la Vierge et de Jésus Christ. Les deux premières images montrent le voile avant la restauration, avec, cependant, les visages de la Vierge et du Christ nettoyés. On voit ensuite son aspect final:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3044" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 374px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mestérou.-Self-Portrait.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3044" title="Mestérou. Self Portrait" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mestérou.-Self-Portrait.jpg" alt="" width="364" height="369" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Maria Mestérou: Self Portrait</p></div>
<p>&#8230; (ayant été) confrontée à la restauration ( je me suis trouvée) obligée d’approfondir ses techniques particulières. Il m’est arrivé  d’avoir à faire à une vaste gamme de techniques picturales, allant de la  classique peinture sur toile, passant par celles sur plaques de cuivre  et sur bois, jusqu’à la détrempe à l’œuf sur tissu non tendu sur  châssis, comme ce fut le cas pour un très ancien voile grec couvert de  beaucoup de scènes de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments, dominées par  deux grandes icônes de la Vierge et de Jésus Christ. Les deux premières  images montrent le voile avant la restauration, avec, cependant, les  visages de la Vierge et du Christ nettoyés. On voit ensuite son aspect  final:</p>
<div id="attachment_3046" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mesterou-4b.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3046" title="Mesterou 4b" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mesterou-4b-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Virgin and Child - before the restauration</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3045" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mesterou-5b.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3045" title="Mesterou 5b" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mesterou-5b-300x187.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Virgin and Child after restauration by Maria Mesterou</p></div>
<p>Pour les peintures sur toile,  les choses à traiter sont les mêmes : saleté déposée avec le temps,  vernis noirci et craquelé, fissures, déchirures de la toile, peinture  écaillée, renflements, etc. J’allais oublier les restaurations  grossières qui constituent peut-être le plus grand problème, lorsqu’il  faut absolument les enlever. Je prends ici comme exemple une grande  toile du XVIIIe siècle que j&#8217;avais commencée par un soigneux  nettoyage pour mieux voir les dégradations, puis j’avais enlève le  vernis d’origine qui était noirci et taché, prenant soin de ne pas  enlever avec lui aussi des parties peintes.  Après  l’injection de colle sous les écailles, le masticage des fentes et le  ponçage de ce mastic, j&#8217;avais repeint toutes les parties manquantes,  faisant des raccords parfaits avec la peinture d’origine.</p>
<div id="attachment_3047" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 567px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Maria-mesterou-7b.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3047" title="Maria mesterou 7b" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Maria-mesterou-7b.jpg" alt="" width="557" height="428" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Maria Mesterou at work in her atelier restoring an 18th c. painting.</p></div>
<p>Le site personnel de l&#8217;artiste peintre voir:</p>
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		<title>Orpheus never turned up for tea</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our painter is called Janet Cree. Born in London in 1910, she is an artist of early promise as the Tate Gallery acquires one of her works when she is only 23 years of age. From then on we know little about her artistic fortunes and true to herself Janet carries on quietly with her craft, sending regularly her pictures to the RA exhibitions, without making waves. Soon the war takes its toll as the art aficionados go silent as the bottom falls out of the art market.
In spite of it all Janet Cree takes her due place in the dictionaries of contemporary British painters. Doubtless her family, as she sets up a home, makes demands on her time too, for she is now married to a mercurial lawyer whose physical and social stature is larger than life: this is John Platts-Mills, the six-foot New Zealand-born athlete and Oxford-educated student. He comes to Britain as a Rhodes scholar to Balliol College.
By this time, the trauma of the First War takes its toll on the mood of the young people, who are disaffected with the society and over-enthusiastic about the social and economic ‘paradise’ promised by Joseph Stalin.

Platts-Mills is no exception. At first he hopes that luck may strike closer to the British Isles as he gives his support to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. That was not to be. For a moment it seems that his political sympathies go astride the main flow of the British establishment, as he is not considered good material to enroll as a RAF pilot during the war. Earlier on, in 1932 he is called to the Inner Temple, but will not become a King’s Council for a long time, because of his political sympathies.
However, at the beginning of the war the Allied troops suffer many set backs, which cause Platts-Mills’ fortunes to change for the better, as Churchill calls on him and urge him to be a go-between with Stalin’s Russia. This is the time when Platts-Mills throws himself arduously into Soviet-British PR, forging endless Soviet-British friendship societies all over Britain. Yet, on the political board of snakes and ladders fortunes change quickly and with the advent of the cold war the maverick barrister looses his political clout: in the process he also looses his Finsbury seat in Parliament, as he is expelled from the Labour Party. But hard luck turns to good fortune as his reputation precedes him. He becomes a much sought-after lawyer in some of the most controversial legal cases, defending the Kray brothers, the Great Train Robbers, the Shrewsbury two. He also acts as a secret adviser of Trade Union leader Arthur Scargill in the miners’ strike of the 1970s, which caused the fall of Edward Heath’s government. He appears on the Grunwick picket line and acted on the Bloody Sunday inquiry in Londonderry.

But before he becomes involved in these high-profile cases Platts-Mills takes care to pay his last respects to “Uncle Joe”, as he dies in the Kremlin, in 1953.
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<div id="attachment_1105" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 353px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Janet-Cree.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1105" title="Janet Cree" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Janet-Cree.jpg" alt="" width="343" height="243" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#39;Orpheous&#39; by Janet CREE (private collection, London)</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Orpheus never turned up for tea</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Looking at a painting by Janet Cree (1910-1992)</span></strong><br />
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<p>There is an instant fascination which this painting on panel offers the neophyte, as he identifies himself without any difficulty to the main personage – a scantily clad youth playing an antique lyra, surrounded by a bevy of entranced females, some prostrate with admiration, others overcome by pure love.<br />
<span style="color: #3366ff;">Orpcheus</span>, because this is precisely the identity of our lucky young man, appears to be oblivious of the ecstatic atmosphere he creates around him as he is content playing on, regardless, while focusing his eyes on the horizon.</p>
<p>The painting is luminous, in shades of ivory white which dominate the panel, punctuated by pale and discreetly-coloured draping in the guise of clothes and darker greens of erect poplars. These are Lombardy poplars of a kind that one very rarely sees in England, because the painter, although being English herself and trained at a London Art School, she sets her subject in Italy.<br />
For there is a pervasive “Italian feel” in the aura of this picture suggestive of an early <span style="color: #0000ff;">Montegna</span>, combined with a strong overprint of the British school of painting of the early 1930s… All in all, I should say, the painting conveys a very pleasant soothing air of some far-away garden of Eden, to which one might aspire but never gain access to. Hence the perpetual reverie that exudes this beautiful composition – more effective and prudent than taking a trip on a tablet of Ecstasy…</p>
<p>Our painter is called <span style="color: #3366ff;">Janet Cree</span>. Born in London in 1910, she is an artist of early promise as the <span style="color: #0000ff;">Tate Gallery</span> acquires one of her works when she is only 23 years of age. From then on we know little about her artistic fortunes and true to herself Janet carries on quietly with her craft, sending regularly her pictures to the RA exhibitions, without making waves. Soon the war takes its toll as the art aficionados go silent as the bottom falls out of the art market.<br />
In spite of it all <span style="color: #3366ff;">Janet Cree</span> takes her due place in the dictionaries of contemporary British painters. Doubtless her family, as she sets up a home, makes demands on her time too,</p>
<div id="attachment_3036" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 172px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/PRplattsmills.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3036" title="PRplattsmills" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/PRplattsmills.jpg" alt="" width="162" height="234" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">John Platts-Mills, QC, MP (1906-2001) defending Counsel for the Kray Brothers and the Great Train Robbers</p></div>
<p>for she is now married to a mercurial lawyer whose physical and social stature is larger than life: this is <span style="color: #0000ff;">John Platts-Mill</span>s, the six-foot New Zealand-born athlete and Oxford-educated student. He comes to Britain as a Rhodes scholar to Balliol College.<br />
By this time, the trauma of the First War takes its toll on the mood of the young people, who are disaffected with the society and over-enthusiastic about the social and economic ‘paradise’ promised by <span style="color: #3366ff;">Joseph Stalin. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">Platts-Mills </span>is no exception. At first he hopes that luck may strike closer to the British Isles as he gives his support to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. That was not to be. For a moment it seems that his political sympathies go astride the main flow of the British establishment, as he is not considered good material to enroll as a RAF pilot during the war. Earlier on, in 1932 he is called to the Inner Temple, but will not become a King’s Council for a long time, because of his political sympathies.<br />
However, at the beginning of the war the Allied troops suffer many set backs, which cause <span style="color: #3366ff;">Platts-Mills</span>’ fortunes to change for the better, as <span style="color: #3366ff;">Churchill </span>calls on him and urge him to be a go-between with <span style="color: #3366ff;">Stalin</span>’s Russia. This is the time when Platts-Mills throws himself arduously into Soviet-British PR, forging endless Soviet-British friendship societies all over Britain. Yet, on the political board of snakes and ladders fortunes change quickly and with the advent of the cold war the maverick barrister looses his political clout: in the process he also looses his Finsbury seat in Parliament, as he is expelled from the Labour Party. But hard luck turns to good fortune as his reputation precedes him. He becomes a much sought-after lawyer in some of the most controversial legal cases, defending the <span style="color: #3366ff;">Kray brothers</span>, the <span style="color: #3366ff;">Great Train Robbers</span>, the Shrewsbury two. He also acts as a secret adviser of Trade Union leader <span style="color: #3366ff;">Arthur Scargil</span>l in the miners’ strike of the 1970s, which caused the fall of <span style="color: #3366ff;">Edward Heath</span>’s government. He appears on the Grunwick picket line and acted on the <span style="color: #3366ff;">Bloody Sunday</span> inquiry in Londonderry.</p>
<p>But before he becomes involved in these high-profile cases <span style="color: #3366ff;">Platts-Mills</span> takes care to pay his last respects to “<span style="color: #3366ff;">Uncle Joe</span>”, as he dies in the Kremlin, in 1953.<br />
He is not alone in eulogising the infamous people’s executioner, as another fellow traveler and a Nobel Prize laureate, the Chilean <span style="color: #3366ff;">Pablo Neruda</span> depicts the Red dictator in heart-rending, sycophantic verse:</p>
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<div id="attachment_3038" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 250px"><em><em><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/stalin21.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3038" title="stalin2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/stalin21.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="377" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Red Dictator and Murderer Joseph Stalin: Platts-Mills attends his funeral in 1953</p></div>
<p><em>‘In three rooms of the old Kremlin</em><br />
<em>lives a man named Joseph Stalin</em><br />
<em>His bedroom light is turned off late. </em><br />
<em>The world and his country allow him no rest.’</em></p>
<p>And how! The fallen peoples of Eastern Europe know all about it in the new satellite prison-states that were occupied by Soviet troops.</p>
<p>This is no concern for our London lawyer who is fond of driving Rolls-Royces and Bentleys and decrees benevolently:</p>
<div id="attachment_3040" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rolls-royce-phantom.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3040" title="rolls-royce-phantom" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rolls-royce-phantom-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Rolls-Royce - Platts-Mills preferred vehicle: he decreed that every working class man ought to have one!</p></div>
<p><em>‘Every working class man should have one!’</em></p>
<p>Quite so! And to start with those working classes could drive Rolls-Royces by proxy, through their representatives like <span style="color: #3366ff;">Platts-Mills</span>…and drink champagne also through their representatives.</p>
<div id="attachment_3039" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CARI_Gaddafi.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-3039" title="CARI_Gaddafi" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CARI_Gaddafi.gif" alt="" width="320" height="348" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lybian dictator Col Gaddafi (by John Cox): visited by Mills at the time of the Lybian Embassy crisis in London</p></div>
<p>Clearly, <span style="color: #3366ff;">John Platts-Mills</span> had a fascination with more than one killer dictator, for, when his dutiful and self-effaced wife is somewhat surprised by his absence from home, she rings his Chambers to ask his whereabouts: well as it happened his image just appeared flittingly on British TV screens as a guest standing behind <span style="color: #3366ff;">Colonel Ghaddafi</span>, on a visit to Libya. This was the time of the Libyan embassy crisis in London, at which point the imperturbable Janet would answer quietly:</p>
<p>‘<span style="color: #3366ff;">Well, in that case I will not lay out the table for tea.</span>’</p>
<p>In her old age, the faithful and dutiful wife never questioned and never complained: for her the personage in the centre of her youthful painting was no other than her good-looking husband, the very iconic <span style="color: #3366ff;">Orpheus</span> who never turned up for tea.</p>
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		<title>Miracolul Bisericii de la Drăgănescu şi o profeţie a Părintelui Arsenie Boca</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Pictura sacră e istoria în imagini a vieţii Mântuitorului şi a celor transfiguraţi de El. Adică imaginea raiului. Sfinţia Ta [pr. Arsenie Boca] ai înţeles să faci o pictură transfigurată în nuanţe clare şi deschise, paradisiace, pentru a sugera lumea feerică de dincolo. Biserica de la Drăgănescu iradiază lumina raiului” (Nichifor Crainic).
„Ceea ce am admirat la Sfinţia Ta e că nu te-ai lăsat. Din zugrav de suflete, fericite să se modeleze după Domnul tuturor, iată-te zugrav de biserici, adică al celor ce poartă pe chipurile cuvioase reflexul desăvârşirii Fiului lui Dumnezeu. E o mare mângâiere, acum când nu mai ai prilejul să desăvârşeşti pe aspiranţi, să poţi mângâia cu penelul pe cei desăvârşiţi pentru a-i da pildă pe zidurile sacre. Mica biserică de la Drăgănescu are norocul să simtă pe zidurile ei zugrăvite predicile fierbinţi, pe care miile de oameni le ascultau la Sâmbăta de Sus. E o pictură nouă ca şi predica de atunci. Nimic întunecat în această primăvară care îmbracă cu plai înflorit bolţile bisericii. E o lumină de tonuri deschise către lume, ca spiritul şi chipul Mântuitorului coborât să ne aducă lumina de sus, ce iradiază din pictura Sfinţiei Tale. E un stil nou, e o pictură nouă, după viziunea nouă pe care o porţi în suflet” (Nichifor Crainic, 1971).
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<div id="attachment_2872" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-exterior.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2872" title="BisDraganescu-exterior" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-exterior-300x283.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="283" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Biserica Draganescu pictata de Pr. Arsenie BOCA</p></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: Miracolul Bisericii de la Drăgănescu şi o profeţie a Părintelui Arsenie Boca<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;">Motto:</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>“Pictura sacră e istoria în imagini a vieţii Mântuitorului şi a celor transfiguraţi de El. Adică imaginea raiului. Sfinţia Ta [pr. Arsenie Boca] ai înţeles să faci o pictură transfigurată în nuanţe clare şi deschise, paradisiace, pentru a sugera lumea feerică de dincolo. Biserica de la Drăgănescu iradiază lumina raiului” </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">(Nichifor Crainic).</p>
<div id="attachment_2873" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 260px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-pictura3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2873" title="BisDraganescu-pictura3" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-pictura3.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Biserica Draganescu: Fresca de Pr. Arsenie BOCA</p></div>
<p>Biserica din satul Drăgănescu se singularizează printr-o serie de întâmplări pe care le-am putea numi de-a dreptul miraculoase. Un prim miracol a fost că biserica a putut fi pictată de Părintele Arsenie Boca. Mai ales dacă avem în vedere formalitatea aprobării lucrării urmând a fi executată din 1967 de cel mai mare duhovnic din Biserica ortodoxă românească, persecutat de poliţia politică, anchetat, urmărit, închis şi schingiuit fără condamnare judecătorească încă din 1948, de când fusese înfiinţată Securitatea comunistă de către Ana Pauker/Hanah Rabinsohn împreună cu alţi agenţi N.K.W.D/K.G.B. Părintele Nicolae Streza observase în volumul său de amintiri că nimeni nu va putea “contabiliza numărul miilor de credincioşi care, căutându-l pe Părintele Arsenie Boca, au bătut drumurile spre Sâmbăta de Sus, apoi spre Prislop, spre Bucureşti, spre Drăgănescu, cu eforturi mari, uneori cu teama de a nu-i face rău, fiind mereu supravegheat” (pr.N. Streza, Mărturii despre Părintele Arsenie Boca, Ed. Credinţa strămoşască, 2009, p.22).<br />
Un alt fapt de mirare este că pictura bisericii din satul Drăgănescu a apucat să fie văzută de poetul mistic Nichifor Crainic (1889-1972), şi el, ca şi Părintele Arsenie Boca, scăpat cu viaţă din puşcăriile politice ale generalului N.K.W.D. Boris Grumberg, alias Nikolski/Nicolau. De la maica Zamfira aflăm de vizita din 1971 a fostului academician epurat din înalta instituţie odată distrugerea planificată a tot ce a însemnat până în 1948 valoare culturală românească. Într-o scrisoare autorul Nostalgiei Paradisului comunica teologului-duhovnic în jurul căruia se născuse în anii patruzeci “mişcarea religioasă de la Sâmbăta de Sus”(pr.N. Streza, op. cit) bucuria avută la vederea picturii, “pecetluindu-i” astfel valoarea (v. Monahia Zamfira Constantinescu, Notă, în vol. Cărarea Împărăţiei, Deva, 2006, p.332-333). Ascuns de urmăritorii săi din armata sovietică, academicianul Crainic fusese adus de la Sibiu de Părintele Arsenie Boca şi găzduit în vila Mitropolitului N. Bălan (v. N. Crainic, Memorii, vol.II, Bucureşti, 2002, p.37-40) în prima iarnă de ocupaţie rusească a României. Se pare că Petru Groza ar fi încuviinţat ascunderea fugarului spunând că “omul acesta [N.C] trebuie păstrat pentru neamul românesc” (Cărarea împărăţiei, Deva, 2006, p.332). Pe când era oaspete stareţului Arsenie Boca, directorul Gândirii s-a ocupat de stilizarea traducerii Filocaliei. Iată ce-i scria în 1971 teologul Nichifor Crainic fostului stareţ al Mânăstirii Brâncoveanu care reînviase „cu viata si cu propăvăduirea sa duhul Filocaliei în viaţa religioasă a poporului nostru” (v. Dumitru Stăniloaie, în Prefaţa la vol.III al Filocaliei, Sibiu, 1947):</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>„Ceea ce am admirat la Sfinţia Ta e că nu te-ai lăsat. Din zugrav de suflete, fericite să se modeleze după Domnul tuturor, iată-te zugrav de biserici, adică al celor ce poartă pe chipurile cuvioase reflexul desăvârşirii Fiului lui Dumnezeu. E o mare mângâiere, acum când nu mai ai prilejul să desăvârşeşti pe aspiranţi, să poţi mângâia cu penelul pe cei desăvârşiţi pentru a-i da pildă pe zidurile sacre. Mica biserică de la Drăgănescu are norocul să simtă pe zidurile ei zugrăvite predicile fierbinţi, pe care miile de oameni le ascultau la Sâmbăta de Sus. E o pictură nouă ca şi predica de atunci. Nimic întunecat în această primăvară care îmbracă cu plai înflorit bolţile bisericii. E o lumină de tonuri deschise către lume, ca spiritul şi chipul Mântuitorului coborât să ne aducă lumina de sus, ce iradiază din pictura Sfinţiei Tale. E un stil nou, e o pictură nouă, după viziunea nouă pe care o porţi în suflet”</em> (Nichifor Crainic, 1971).</p>
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<div id="attachment_2874" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-interior.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2874" title="BisDraganescu-interior" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-interior.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="304" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Biserica Dragamescu Interior pictat de Pr. Arsenie BOCA</p></div></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Rândurile faimosului teolog profesor, distins cu titlul Doctor honoris cauza al Universităţii din Viena, tipărite de monahia Zamfira Constantinescu în prima ediţie a Cărării împărăţiei (Deva, 1995) au avut darul să pună o oarecare stavilă celor care, invocând reguli pe care nu le-au înţeles în spiritul lor, au căutat să denigreze pictura cea nouă a Bisericii de la Drăgănescu realizată de Părintele Arsenie Boca.<br />
In 1950 Patriarhului Justinian Marina îi reuşeşte mutarea în cadrul Patriarhiei a Comisiei de pictură bisericească de la Ministerul Cultelor, numit de el “Securitatea popilor”. Probabil că fără această trecere n-am fi avut azi nici frescele şi mozaicurile Olgăi Greceanu de la Manăstirea Antim, nici “predicile vii” (apud. Nichifor Crainic) pictate pe zidurile bisericii de la Drăgănescu de fostul stareţ al Mânăstirii Brâncoveanu de la Sâmbăta de Sus şi apoi de la M-rea Prislop.<br />
Miraculoasă este însăşi supravieţuirea monumentului de artă pe care-l reprezintă micuţa biserică aflată la vreo 30 de km de Bucureşti. E suficient să ne gândim că ea se află pe malul lacului de la Mihăileşti, unde Mefisto şoptise tiranului (ca spre sfârşitul Faustului goethean) să construiască un port, neapărat în locul bisericii, si nu în altă parte. Ceauşeştii voiau distrugerea Bisericii Părintelui cu o furie nestăpânită. Ceea ce a dus în primăvara anului 1989 la pălmuirea Părintelui Arsenie Boca în mijlocul bisericii în sfânta zi de Paşte. Înverşunarea lor împotriva călugărului iconar care s-a opus cu fermitate dărâmării Bisericii de la Drăgănescu nu s-a stins până nu l-au condamnat la o moarte martirică (v. Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba, Moartea martirică a Părintelui Arsenie Boca, un adevăr ascuns la Centenarul sărbătorit la Sâmbăta de Sus).</p>
<p>În categoria miraculosului intră şi supravieţuirea picturii Bisericii executată de Părintele Arsenie Boca din 1968 şi până în 1989. Fiindcă din interiorul Bisericii din Bălteni au dispărut “figurile impunătoare ale sfinţilor” realizate pe cheltuiala şi cu efortul Olgăi Greceanu în anii 1945 şi 1946 ajutată fiind de Eduard Săulescu şi Theodora Cernat-Popp. În 1972 fresca a fost refăcută de Olga Greceanu (v. prof. univ. dr. Adina Nanu, Olga Greceanu, album editat în 2004 de Centrul de Cultură Palatele Brâncoveneşti, p.49). Din păcate, pictura Bisericii din Bălteni care prin “ritmul cumpănit al compoziţiei de o sobră şi gravă armonie” îi păruse Adinei Nanu că “învăluie şi linişteşte sufletul privitorului ca o rugăciune” n-avea să scape decât într-o primă instanţă de furia destructivă a dărâmătorilor de biserici din vremea comunismului. Ea n-a mai putut supravieţui valului distrugător al inculturii sub aparenţe bine-voitoare.</p>
<p>Pe 5 septembrie 2010, anul centenarului naşterii Părintelui Arsenie Boca, un preot venise cu soţia să vadă pictura Bisericii Drăgănescu. Eram şi eu acolo, poate ajunsă în acea zi ca să nu ratez întâlnirea cu soţia acelui preot. Fiindcă de la ea am aflat că trecerea Părintelui Arsenie Boca era însoţită de atâta veneraţie încât credincioşii îi atingeau pe furiş haina preoţească. În ce-l priveşte pe bătrânul preot care tot găsea defecte picturii bisericii, văzându-l aşa de ostil, nu m-am putut reţine să-i citez o spusă a Părintelui Arsenie Boca:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>“Să nu pronunţaţi prea des numele meu că pe unii îi arde”. </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Asta pentru că de la acel specialist în pictură bisericească aflasem nişte aşa-zise neajunsuri ale picturii. Vezi Doamne, culorile vesmintelor nu corespundeau canoanelor, şi nici feţele sfinţilor nu erau pe placul preotului venit din Bucureşti, care tocmai îmi spusese că face parte din Comisia de pictură bisericească a Patriarhiei. Noroc că în 1971 fostului profesor de Teologie Mistică aceeaşi pictură îi plăcuse.</p>
<p>Dacă Nichifor Crainic nu si-ar fi exprimat în scris entuziasmul pentru scenele pictate în biserică de Părintele Arsenie Boca, cine ştie dacă soarta lor n-ar fi fost aceeaşi cu soarta frescelor Olgăi Greceanu care din 1992 au încetat (cu acordul Comisiei de pictură bisericească a Patriarhiei) să existe pe pereţii Bisericii din Bălteni. Uimitoare mi-a părut şi profeţia Părintelui Arsenie Boca prevăzând ostilitatea oficială care se va prelungi şi după moartea sa. El a spus:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>“Ierarhia BOR îşi va face de lucru cu mine şi după moartea mea” </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">(pr. N. Streza, <em>Mărturii despre Părintele Arsenie Boca</em>, Ed. Credinţa stămoşască, 2009, p.223)</p>
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<div id="attachment_2875" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-pictura1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2875" title="BisDraganescu-pictura1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BisDraganescu-pictura1.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Biserica Draganescu, Fresca pictata de Pr. Arsenie BOCA</p></div>
<p style="text-align: left;">(Sursa text:  <a title="Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba" href="http://isabelavs.blogspot.com">http://isabelavs.blogspot.com</a> )</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Sursa ilustratii: <a title="Biseroca Draganescu" href="http://www.crestinortodox.ro/biserici-manastiri/biserica-draganescu-95957.html">http://www.crestinortodox.ro/biserici-manastiri/biserica-draganescu-95957.html</a></p>
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		<title>Zoe Constance RICCI, (Bucureşti 10 mai 1909 – Paris 25 mai 1992)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[La moartea artistei Ionel Jianu scrie în „Lupta” nr. 184 din mai 1992:
Zoe Constance Ricci, Bucuresti 10 mai 1909 – Paris 25 mai 1992
Sora cu arhitectii Mihail si Tiberiu Ricci.
Studiaza pictura cu Jean Steriadi si Camil Ressu la Academia de arte frumoase din Bucuresti, devine apoi asistenta lui Steriadi.
La 8 aprilie 1962 paraseste tara si se stabileste la Paris unde continua sa picteze.
    „Zoe Ricci avea o personalitate bine definita, intransigenta, voluntara, care nu admitea nici un compromis. Pictura ei nu era bazata pa armonii de soc, ci pe acorduri fine, nuantate, palide, care reflectau propria ei realitate. Zoe Ricci a fost o artista adevarata, care nu s-a bucurat de rasunetul si succesul meritat, pentru ca n-a înteles cerintele de publicitate ale societatii de consum, ci a trait în singuratate, în tacere si s-a stins ca o soapta în amurg”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Zoe Constance Ricci, Bucuresti 10 mai 1909 – Paris 25 mai 1992</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Placheta si ilustratii oferite de nepotul artistei,  Ing. Mario Ricci)<strong><br />
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<div id="attachment_2831" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 230px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IMG_0014a.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2831" title="IMG_0014a" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IMG_0014a-220x300.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci (1909 Romania - 1992 Franta)</p></div>
<p>Sora cu arhitectii Mihail si Tiberiu Ricci.<br />
Studiaza pictura cu Jean Steriadi si Camil Ressu la Academia de arte frumoase din Bucuresti, devine apoi asistenta lui Steriadi.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Activitatea artistica si Expozitii: </strong></p>
<div id="attachment_2833" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 227px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Huile1947.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2833" title="Huile1947" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Huile1947-217x300.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, Ulei, 1947</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2834" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Brasov1940contéRehauseéDeCouleur1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2834" title="Brasov1940contéRehauseéDeCouleur0" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Brasov1940contéRehauseéDeCouleur1-300x222.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="222" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, 1940, Brasov, conté rehauseé de couleur</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2840" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 225px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nud1945.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2840" title="Nud1945" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nud1945-215x300.jpg" alt="" width="215" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, 1945, Nude</p></div>
<p>1930 – 1961 ia parte în mod regulat la Salonul Oficial de la Bucuresti.</p>
<p>1936 &#8211; Prima expozitie personala la galeria „Mozart”.</p>
<p>1940 &#8211; Expozitie personala la „Oficiul National de Turism”.<br />
1943 &#8211; Realizeaza împreuna cu arhitectul Nicolae Cucu decorurile pentru o ampla colectie de arta plastica româneasca expusa la „Kunsthalle” din Berna din initiativa ministerului Propagandei. (1)<br />
1945 &#8211; Expozitie personala la „Caminul Artei”si „Galeria Cretulescu”.<br />
1946 &#8211; participa la înfiintarea revistei „Lumina si Culoare” (raspundea de prezentarea grafica) împreuna cu Alexandru Rosetti, Ionel Jianu (prim redactor), Alexandru Paleologu, Aristide Blank, Petre Comarnescu, Francisc Sirato, M.H. Maxy si altii. (2)<br />
1947 &#8211; Expozitii personale la galeria „Cretulescu”.si din nou la „Caminul Artei”.<br />
Francisc Sirato scrie printre altele despre Zoe Ricci cu ocazia acestei expozitii:</p>
<blockquote><p>„Una din putinele expozitii ale anului acestuia ce a iesit din aspectul comun al târgului de tablouri a fost expozitia de la „Caminul Artei“ a Doamnei Zoe Ricci. O expozitie ce ne-a aratat nu numai imagini de tot felul cum se obisnuieste la orice expozitie ce vrea sa distreze ochiul cu diversitatea de toate genurile si distractive prin jocul de forme si culori.<br />
Nu astfel era expozitia Doamnei Zoe Ricci, care dimpotriva a fost o expozitie de serioase ambitii.”&#8230;&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>„&#8230;pictorul Z.R. nu este grabit fiindca pictura sa este o arta de lenta penetratie a problemelor plastice impuse de genul portetului cum am mai vazut obtinuta pe un domeniu cu totul plastic si opus, în sculptura portretistica a Dnei Milita Patrascu. Fundamentul operei de arta al Dnei Zoe Ricci este de o sensibilitate subtila ajutata de o lucida putere de observatie, calitati rare în plastica româneasca.”</p></blockquote>
<p>La 8 aprilie 1962 paraseste tara si se stabileste la Paris unde continua sa picteze.<br />
1967 – in noiembrie participa la o expozitie colectiva la galeriile „Bernheim” cu peisaje din Paris.<br />
1969 – in decembrie participa la o expozitie colectiva la galeriile „Piccolo Auditorium del Palazzo Cellario” din Genova cu „peisaje din Paris”.<br />
1970 – in februarie face o expozitie personala tot la Genova la galeria de arta contemporana „Pourquoi pas?” sub Titlul „Visioni di Parigi” expune 20 de pasteluri reprezentând peisaje din Paris si detalii ale catedralei Notre Dame.<br />
1970 – in septembrie participa la o expozitie colectiva „Les atistes roumains en France” cu peisaje din Paris.<br />
A fost membra în asociatia artistilor „Association des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs et dessinateurs”<br />
La moartea artistei Ionel Jianu scrie în „Lupta” nr. 184 din mai 1992:</p>
<blockquote><p>„Zoe Ricci avea o personalitate bine definita, intransigenta, voluntara, care nu admitea nici un compromis. Pictura ei nu era bazata pa armonii de soc, ci pe acorduri fine, nuantate, palide, care reflectau propria ei realitate. Zoe Ricci a fost o artista adevarata, care nu s-a bucurat de rasunetul si succesul meritat, pentru ca n-a înteles cerintele de publicitate ale societatii de consum, ci a trait în singuratate, în tacere si s-a stins ca o soapta în amurg”</p>
<div id="attachment_2842" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/LeChateauDeMarcilly1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2842" title="LeChateauDeMarcilly" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/LeChateauDeMarcilly1-300x213.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="213" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, Le chateau de Marcilly</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2843" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 239px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NotreDamePastel.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2843" title="NotreDamePastel" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NotreDamePastel-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, Notre Dame, Pastel</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2844" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Sinaia1950pastel.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2844" title="Sinaia1950pastel" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Sinaia1950pastel-300x234.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="234" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, Sinaia, Pastel, 1950</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2845" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 234px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Paris1969Pastel.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2845" title="Paris1969Pastel" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Paris1969Pastel-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zoe Ricci, Paris, Pastel, 1969</p></div></blockquote>
<p>„Deceniul prabusirilor (1940 – 1950) vietile pictorilor, sculptorilor si arhitectilor români între legionari si stalinisti” Mihai Pelin Ed. Compania 2005.<br />
(2) Revista Lumina si Culoare a însemnat un moment important în viata artistica a epocii.<br />
(3) „Paris dans le particulier” de Rodolfo Vitone, „Corriere Mercantile”, 3 mars 1970.</p>
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		<title>Retrospectiva Mario RICCI (Italy) Retrospective</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retrospectiva de peisajii - Mario Ricci, Italy Retrospective of Lazio Landscapes.
Romanian-born Mario Ricci comes from a dprominent family of architects, painters and leaders of the intellectual and cultural set of the 20th century Romania.
He distinguished himself in his career as a Civil Engineer with outstanding projects in Germany and the Middle East. His works as an amateur painter is part of a family tradition which includes his late paternal aunt, Zoe Ricci and step grandfather Dimitrie STIUBEI (1901-1986), both of whom died in exile.
Early in his artistic career Mario Ricci worked in the atelier of his grandfather on large official commissions in Tulcea and elsewhere, After his move to Germany Ricci had made made many copies after great masters as a means of acquiring different artistic skills (see his copies after Monet and van Gogh, above.]]></description>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CivitaDiBagnoregio.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2784" title="CivitaDiBagnoregio" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CivitaDiBagnoregio-300x221.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="221" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci, &quot;Civita di Bagnoregio&quot;, pastel</p></div>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-2791" title="BoscoMarino" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/BoscoMarino-300x230.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="230" /></p>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Mario Ricci &#8211; &#8220;Bosco Marino&#8221;, Pastel, Retrospective Italy</dd>
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<p><strong>MARIO RICCI (Biographical note)</strong></p>
<p>Retrospectiva de peisajii &#8211; Mario Ricci, Italy Retrospective of Lazio Landscapes.<br />
Romanian-born Mario Ricci comes from a prominent family of architects, painters and leaders of the intellectual and cultural set of the 20th century Romania.<br />
He distinguished himself in his career as a Civil Engineer with outstanding projects in Germany and the Middle East. His works as an amateur painter is part of a family tradition which includes his late paternal aunt, Zoe Ricci and step grandfather Dimitrie STIUBEI (1901-1986), both of whom died in exile.<br />
Early in his artistic career Mario Ricci worked in the atelier of his grandfather on large official commissions in Tulcea and elsewhere, After his move to Germany Ricci had made several copies after great masters as a means of acquiring different artistic skills (see his copies after Monet and van Gogh).</p>
<div id="attachment_2789" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 247px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cappella-deVecchiolCimitero.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2789" title="Cappella deVecchiolCimitero" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cappella-deVecchiolCimitero-237x300.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Cappella del Vecchio Cimitero&quot;, Mario Ricci, Pastel</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2788" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CampagnaSienese.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2788" title="CampagnaSienese" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CampagnaSienese-300x202.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="202" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci, &quot;Campagna Sinese&quot;,  acryl</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2785" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 232px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CastelloDiSorano.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2785" title="CastelloDiSorano" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CastelloDiSorano-222x300.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci, &quot;Castello di Sorano&quot;, Pastel</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_2783" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><em><em><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VistaDalCapoTerzo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2783" title="VistaDalCapoTerzo" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VistaDalCapoTerzo-300x194.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci. &quot;Vista dal Capo Terzo&quot;, oil</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2814" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><em><em><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/vanGogh2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2814" title="vanGogh2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/vanGogh2-300x242.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="242" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci,  Woodland Landscape after van Gogh</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2815" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><em><em><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Monet2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2815" title="Monet2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Monet2-300x211.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="211" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci, Landscape after Monet</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2816" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><em><em><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Monet1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2816" title="Monet1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Monet1-300x226.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="226" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Mario Ricci, Landscape after Monet</p></div>
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