Gheorghe Virtosu

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painting / abstract art 2000 Camp David Summit

Year 2017

139x143 Cm / 55x56 In

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Gheorghe Virtosu

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2000 Camp David Summit (2017)

Year 2017

139x143 Cm / 55x56 In

Oil / Acrylic Base / Linen Canvas

Original Edition

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2000 Camp David Summit (2017) oil painting Description

Talking about history using the language of non-figurative art seems to be almost impossible. History is always specific, whilst abstract painting avoids certainty, appealing not to facts, but emotions. Nevertheless, we are often mistaken, excluding feelings from history. All vicissitudes and achievements of the epochs affect not countries, not some ephemeral societies - it changes lives of people. 2000 Camp David Summit by Gheorghe Virtosu attempts to capture the emotional climate of the event - the mood of the failed expectations, anger, and disappointment. Such ‘mixture’ is expressed in the complex coloring of the backdrop. It is made of dark blue, combined with the strokes of purple, red, orange, yellow, and light blue, which were applied in the coloring of figures as well. Those tints, clear and joyful themselves, evolve into a somber mass oil painting. The notes of conflict are supported with the drawing of the image, where roundish shapes are merged with some elongated, sharp fragments. The composition of 2000 Camp David Summit oil painting is slightly off the balance: being mostly symmetric, it still has the number of ‘holes’ and ‘bulges’ that interrupt its integrity. They recall the images of animal-like creatures from the Mesoamerican painting, where snakes, jaguars, birds are entwined and devour each other in the everlasting fight. The whole visual construction of the oil painting looks like being torn from the inside and is about to burst - the exact feeling of the situation on the Near East. Unfortunately, we still experience it even today, 18 years after the Camp David Summit, when the problem still remains unsolved. "The challenge of this art is to evolve an expansive landscape that brings the viewer, idea, artist, and experience together. At once it is chaos, and at the same time a simple embrace of the loss of boundaries at the portal to new understanding." - G. Virtosu. Throughout history, the vision of art’s role has changed dramatically - from art as the representation of the transcendental side of life to being just an eye-pleaser. But after going through the trauma of two world wars in the 20th century, political art also became seen as an important platform for speaking up social position and discussing the political matters. Drifting away from ‘art for art’s sake,’ contemporary painters regularly refer to the topical subjects, which comes as no surprise, considering the aggressively intensive flow of mass-media content. As George Orwell once said, “In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”

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