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| | Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | He studied the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (1926-1930) and paralelly the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest; he studied at the Fine Arts Faculty in Iassy (1934-1938), with the painter N.N. Tonitza. |
 | | He was awarded numerous distinctions; he was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (1963), of the Art Academy in Berlin (1964), of the "Tommaso Campanella" Academy in Rome (1970) a.s.o. |
 | | Richly coloured, his paintings preserve areas of darkness, in a permanent dialogue with the lightened parts, as in the portraits he painted of famous artists such as Mihail Sadoveanu, Lucia Sturza-Bulandra, George Enescu, Tudor Arghezi, a.s.o., or as in his Venetian and Spanish landscapes the two geographical areas had fascinated the artist. |
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