EMIL PAVELESCU, ROMANIAN PAINTER, HE WON MOST GOLD MEDALS IN EUROPEAN NAIVE ART
ROMANIAN NAIVE ARTISTS: LUCIA CONTAN, STAN IOAN PATRAS, ION NITA NICODIN, RODICA NICODIN, NICOLAE PATRU, PETRU MIHUT, GHEORGHE CIOBANU, LUCICA CIOBANU, POPA GENOVEVA, GHEORGHE BABET, IOAN MARIC, MIHAI VINTILA, VIOREL CRISTEA, ROBERT SCRIPCARU, MARIA TRIFU, STEFAN STIRBU, VIOREL CRISTEA, GHEORGHE NEGRU, ANUICA MARAN, DANIEL PETRAS, PETRU VINTILA.
STAN IOAN PATRAS WAS A ROMANIAN ARTIST, BEING, IN THE SAME TIME, SCULPTOR, PAINTER AND POET.
HE HAS PAINTED ALL CROSSES FROM THE MERRY CEMETERY, LOCATED IN SAPANTA CITY, MARAMURES COUNTY, ROMANIA.
"SAPANTA CEMETERY" FROM MARAMURES COUNTY, ROMANIA, IS THE HAPPIEST CEMETERY FROM THE WORLD.
EVERY PAINTING CONTAINS A SHORT HAPPY AND MORAL STORY, FOR EXAMPLE:
"UNDER THIS HEAVY CROSS IS SLEEPING (AFTER DEATH) MY POOR MOTHER-IN-LAW.
3 DAYS, IF SHE WOULD HAVE LIVED, I WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD AND SHE WOULD HAVE READ.
YOU, WHO ARE PASSING HERE, TRY NOT TO WAKE UP HER, BECAUSE, AT HOME, IF SHE WILL COME, SHE WILL ARGUE ME AGAIN.
BUT, I WILL BEHAVE SO SHE TO NOT COME AGAIN AT HOME.
PEOPLE, WHO WILL READ HERE, DON'T SUFFER LIKE ME!
IF YOU WILL FIND A GOOD MOTHER-IN-LAW, IT IS GOOD TO LIVE WITH HER!
HE LIVED 82 YEARS, DIED IN 1969".
IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE:
"SUB ACEASTA CRUCE GREA ZACE BIATA SOACRA MEA, 3 ZILE DE MAI TRAIA, ZACEAM EU SI CITEA EA, VOI CARE TRECETI PE AICI, INCERCATI SA N-O TREZITI, CA ACASA, DACA VINE, IARA-I CU GURA PE MINE, DA ASA, EU M-OI PURTA, CA NAPOI N-A INTURNA.
CEI CARE CITITI AICI, CA MINE SA NU PATITI.
SOACRA BUNA VA GASITI, CU EA BINE SA TRAITI! A TRAIT 82 DE ANI, MOARTA 1969".
A PART FROM HIS PAINTINGS ON WOODEN SUPPORTS ARE PRESENTED IN THIS GALLERY.
FRENCH NAIVE ARTISTS: HENRI ROUSSEAU, PAUL GAUGUIN (SELF-TAUGHT PAINTER, POST-IMPRESSIONIST, SYMBOLIST, SYNTHETIST, ALSO PRIMITIVE ARTIST), ANDRE BAUCHANT, CAMILLE BOMBOIS, SERAPHINE LOUIS, LOUIS VIVIN, ALAIN THOMAS.
