Venice

The 1909 trip to Venice definitely established the aspect of his creation. The light and the colours of Venice, the pleasure of capturing the movement of the sea, the solar joy of the landscape, make him one of the most fervent Romanian artists to paint this magnificent Italian city. Works like Venice, in our collection, bring a new, unique vision flooded by light and colour, to Romanian art. The artist is not interested in the picturesque sights, but in the evocative capacity of the colours. The atmosphere of the paintings is built and defined by chromatic strokes. He reduces his palette and uses pure hues in “brush-to-brush” strokes, superposing touches of different lengths in order to enhance the artistic expression. In this world of fluidity and lustre, Dărăscu knows how to find and keep the coherence of shape, expressing it in rough deep contours.