Presecan's Soul Touch

As dori sa introduc scrierea mea prin cuvintele lui Bellak Gabor (curator al "Earthly Paradise", expozitia colectiei de arta a Elizabetei şi Alexandru Kasser de la Galeria Nationala a Ungariei, care s-a incheiat in luna mai la Budapesta): "Paradisul de pe pamant nu este altceva decat natura creata de Dumnezeu. Imaginile din natura arata nu numai unitati topografice usor de identificat in arta europeana, ori site-uri de interes turistic, ori peisaje emblematice pentru anumite regiuni, ci in multe cazuri la fel de bine si simboluri universale. Natura, capabila să simbolizeze intreaga creatie cu ordinea sa, structura, dinamica, si culorile ei, reprezinta lumea insasi ... Pentru artistul modern Natura ofera o oportunitate sa se retraga din lume si ofera, de asemenea, sursa de inspiratie pentru munca creativa ... Rolul naturii ca sursa de inspiratie poate fi detectata chiar si in arta abstracta a desenelor lui László Moholy-Nagy, in timp ce Jean Arp recunoaste amest...

When I visited Budapest last week I was lucky to see two important exhibitions, just a few days before their ending. “From Degas to Picasso”, at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, plays host to 60 impressionist and modernist works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The exhibition, which includes pieces by some of the most well-known practitioners of the period including Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Degas, Courbet, Cézanne, Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Monet, is based on the collection of two prominent Russian collectors: Ivan Morozov (1871-1921) and Sergei Shchukin (1854-1936). But it was the second exhibition that impressed me and touched my soul: “Earthly Paradise” from the National Gallery (the art collection of Elizabeth and Alexander Kasser , 102 works by 53 different artists such as Monet, Paul Signac, Renoir, Braque, Edmond Cross, André Derain, Alexej von Jawlensky, Alfred Sisley or Cézanne, Renoir, Maillol, Henry Moore, Modigliani, Matisse, De...