EMIL PAVELESCU, ROMANIAN PAINTER, HE WON MOST GOLD MEDALS IN EUROPEAN NAIVE ART
BIOGRAPHY:
EMIL PAVELESCU (1944-2015) WAS A ROMANIAN PAINTER, MASTER IN NAIVE ART (SELF-TAUGHT ART), AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT NAIVE PAINTERS OF ROMANIA AND OF WHOLE THE WORLD.
HE HAD A HUGE TALENT, BEING A HARD WORKER, HE WON THE MOST GOLD MEDALS, AS PAINTER, IN NAIVE ART, FROM WHOLE THE WORLD, HAVING A DIVINE PATIENCE TO EXPRESS THE DETAILS FROM SOCIAL REALITY AND USING AN OPTIMIST, PERFECTIONIST, HUMOROUS, SOMETIMES AN IRONICAL STYLE.
THE GOLD MEDALS RECEIVED IN FRANCE, IN PORTUGAL AND IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA ESTABLISHED HIS IMPORTANT EUROPEAN VALUE.
PAVELESCU' PAINTINGS WERE REMARKABLE FOR THEIR EXPRESSIVENESS, ORIGINALITY, STYLISTIC OPTIONS, THE CRITERIA OF DISCONNECTION FROM REALITY, CHROMATIC OBSESSIONS AND FORMS INSPIRED BY A PLASTIC TRADITION SPECIFIC TO URBANISM, ALSO SOCIAL LIFE (ACCENTUATING THE MIMETIC FUNCTION OF THE IMAGE), MANIFESTING AN INDIVIDUALITY THAT MADE HIM RECOGNIZABLE IN THE CONTEXT OF ANY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
HIS PAINTINGS CAN BE DEFINED AS NAIVE ART IN FIRST YEARS OF WORK, BUT WHEN EMIL PAVELESCU CREATED THE PORTRAITS, HE PROVED MORE TALENT THAN PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS.
EMIL PAVELESCU HAS PAINTED IN OIL ON CANVAS, ALSO ON WOODEN SUPPORT.
MANY GOLD MEDALS ARE SHOWN IN THE PAINTINGS AND PHOTOS GALLERY FROM ABOVE.
HIS PAINTINGS APPEARED IN INTERNATIONAL ALBUMS ALONGSIDE PICASSO, MATISSE, ALSO CHAGALL.
HE WAS AWARDED IN TREBNJE WITH THE "GOLDEN PLAQUE" ('ZLATNA PLAKETA') OF THE 11TH CAMP OF SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS.
EMIL PAVELESCU WAS VERY APPRECIATED BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, JACQUES CHIRAC, WHO INVITED HIM TO VISIT PARIS, WHERE HIS WORKS WERE VERY APPRECIATED.
HE HAS APPEARED IN "L'ALBUM MONDIAL DE LA PEINTURE NAIVE", HERVAS PUBLISHING HOUSE, AMONG THE 100 MASTERS OF WORLD NAIVE PAINTING.
HIS REFERENCE WORKS WERE PUBLISHED IN THE ALBUM "EMIL PAVELESCU, PAINTER OF TRADITIONAL SYMBOLS", EDITED BY 'NEMIRA PUBLISHING HOUSE', IN 2009, IN ROMANIA.
ALSO, EMIL PAVELESCU IS MENTIONED IN 'WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NAIVE ART', PAGE 474, THE PHOTO IS SHOWN IN THE IMAGES FROM ABOVE.
BORN IN CHERNIVTSI, UKRAINE, WHERE HIS FATHER WAS THE CITY'S POLICE CHIEF, EMIL PAVELESCU ARRIVED IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, IN 1944.
'WHEN THE RUSSIANS ENTERED (I WAS ONLY 9 MONTHS OLD), MY FATHER HAS RUN WITH ME ON THE TRAIN STAIRS, TO BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, WHERE HE HAS HIDDEN FIVE YEARS, BECAUSE THE COMMUNISTS WERE LOOKING MY FATHER TO SHOOT HIM', HAS TOLD PAVELESCU IN AN INTERVIEW FOR 'FORMULA AS MAGAZINE', PUBLISHED IN 2012, IN ROMANIA.
EMIL PAVELESCU GREW UP IN THE 'GIULESTI' NEIGHBORHOOD FROM BUCHAREST, ROMANIA.
THE ARTIST SAID HE WAS NOT EVEN ACCEPTED INTO HIGH SCHOOL, BECAUSE HIS FATHER HAD SPIED FOR THE BRITISH AFTER HE HAS GRADUATED THE COLLEGE IN UNITED KINGDOM.
HIS MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS, 'ON MY MOTHER'S SIDE, WERE FROM CANTACUZINO FAMILY' - SAID THE ARTIST, WERE LANDOWNERS, WITH ESTATES OF THOUSANDS OF HECTARES.
EMIL PAVELESCU HAS WORKED, DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIOD, AS A BUS DRIVER AT IREB (A PUBLIC COMPANY IN ELECTRIC FIELD IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA).
HE GOT MARRIED AT 23, AT 26 HE ALREADY HAD THREE CHILDREN.
HE DISCOVERED HIS PASSION FOR PAINTING WHEN THE CHILDREN GREW UP: "THEY ASKED ME TO DRAW SOMETHING FOR THEM: A CART, A TREE, A RIVER. THAT IS HOW I STARTED TO PAINT".
EMIL PAVELESCU WAS WORKING, INITIALLY, WITH THE MATERIALS (PAINT COLORS) FROM IREB (THE PLACE OF WORK), IT WAS FENCE PAINT AND HE HAD TAKEN A PIECE OF EACH.
THESE ARE CONDITIONS IN WHICH HE MADE THE FIRST PAINTINGS.
WHEN HE GOT A HIGHER PREMIUM FROM WORK, HE WENT AND BOUGHT "ABSOLUTELY ALL THE COLORS" FROM THE 'PLASTIC FUND' (A ROMANIAN PAINT FACTORY FROM BUCHAREST).
ONE DAY, THE ARTIST DECIDED TO GO TO A PROFESSIONAL PAINTER, LUCIAN CIOATA (A ROMANIAN PAINTER, 84 YEARS), TO ASK HIS OPINION AND TO STUDY WITH HIM.
THEN HE LEARNED THAT HIS "PAINTINGS" WERE OF GREAT VALUE AND THAT HE COULD BE CONSIDERED 'A NAIVE PAINTER'.
THE MASTER PAINTER LUCIAN CIOATA TOLD TO EMIL PAVELESCU THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO TEACH HIM AND THAT "ENTIRE WORLD WILL HEAR ABOUT PAVELESCU' HUGE TALENT".
ROMANIAN PAINTER LUCIAN CIOATA HAS PRESENTED TO EMIL PAVELESCU AN ALBUM OF SERBIAN NAIVE PAINTING AND EXPLAINED TO HIM, THAT PERIOD WAS OPPORTUNE FOR NAIVE PAINTING IN THE WORLD.
FINALLY, HE ASKED EMIL PAVELESCU TO COLLECT ALL THE PAINTINGS IN THE HOUSE FOR A FIRST EXHIBITION.
THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF EMIL PAVELESCU WAS ORGANIZED IN THE BRAGADIRU' HOUSES (BEFORE 1989, THE 'NICOLAE BALCESCU HOUSE OF CULTURE', NEAR 'BEER FACTORY' FROM BRAGADIRU, IILFOV COUNTY, ROMANIA).
ALL PAVELESCU EMIL' PAINTINGS WERE SOLD WITH THE OCCASION OF THAT EXHIBITION.
LATER, EMIL PAVELESCU ENTERED IN THE ARTISTIC CIRCLES OF BUCHAREST, DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIOD.
HE HAS LEARNED FROM THE ESTABLISHED PAINTERS MIHAI CISMARU, GHEORGHE APOSTU, CORNELIU BABA, CONSTANTIN PILIUTA, ROMANIAN PAINTERS IN THAT PERIOD.
HE WAS CLOSE TO ROMANIAN SCULPTORS, IN VOGUE, AT THAT TIME, PAVEL BUCUR, VASILE GORDUZ, MAITEC AND FLORIN CODRE.
HE PAINTED, FOR EXAMPLE, ROMANIAN NOVELISTS AND POETS AS MARIN PREDA, EUGEN BARBU, MARIN SORESCU AND ADRIAN PAUNESCU.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONSECRATION COMES AFTER 1977, WHEN EMIL PAVELESCU' PAINTINGS BEGAN TO APPEAR IN ALBUMS FROM PARIS AND AT VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, ALSO, IN THAT PERIOD, THE ARTIST WON THE FIRST MAJOR INTERNATIONAL AWARDS.
IN FRANCE, RAYMOND BARRE AND JACQUES CHIRAC, THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, BETWEEN 1995-2007, HAVE BOUGHT PAVELESCU' PAINTINGS.
ALSO, AT THE MUSEUM OF NAIVE ART IN PARIS, THE DIRECTOR SOLD MANY WORKS PAINTED BY EMIL PAVELESCU.
-EMIL PAVELESCU PAINTING;
-GOLD MEDALS, AWARDS AND FINANCIAL PRIZES WON BY EMIL PAVELESCU;
-EMIL PAVELESCU KEEPING IN HIS HANDS THE ALBUM REGARDING 'WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NAIVE ART', IN WHICH IS MENTIONED AT PAGE 474;
-THE PARAGRAPH IN WHICH EMIL PAVELESCU IS MENTIONED IN 'ALBUM MONDIAL DE LA PEINTURE NAIVE';
-EMIL PAVELESCU KEEPING IN HIS HANDS THE 'ALBUM MONDIAL DE LA PEINTURE NAIVE';
-EMIL PAVELESCU KEEPING IN HIS HANDS THE BOOK 'CRITERIOLOGIE L'ART NAIF';
-EMIL PAVELESCU KEEPING IN HIS HANDS THE BOOK CALLED 'L'ARTE NAIF';
-EMIL PAVELESCU KEEPING IN HIS HANDS THE BOOK CALLED 'AUTHENTISCHE NAIVE';
BELOW, OTHER PAINTINGS OF EMIL PAVELESCU ARE PRESENTED, EXCEPT THE CREATIONS SHOWN IN THE PAGE OF HOME:
