Originating
from his life's vicissitudes, Mr. Simion MUNTEAN'S paintings tell
of the dramatic character and struggles of a life which was burdened
with hardship alike a fight in the arena, where most of the weak
should be overwhelmed by the strong. If he was weak or strong,
it is only for the posterity - Time's implacable imprinting machine
- to decide. Nonetheless, one must recognize this: that he never
gave in, whether in times of weakness or strength, and at the turn
of half of a century of struggle, his dramatic passion emerged.
A chromatic symphony, in which spots of colour compete with each
other, and the never-ending waltz leads the viewer's sight, gliding
it along the labyrinthine mélange of emotions visualized
by means of rough touches against the naked and fragile thigh of
linen canvas. This brutal erotic game of colours excited imagination
and made it flow as impetuously as a river springing from the brush
of a restless artist. A flux of extenuation pouring gradually into
the sea of tranquility and settling through exercise all the struggle
and the existential crisis of this - I should say - dramatic painter.
An dramatic
painter, who displayed
on canvas the image of an inside where the incessantly boiling volcano
erupts at times with the intensity of a Cyclopean force. The overflow
of colours resulted in the disintegration of the whole, which came
to be perceptively mirrored in the details, fragment by fragment,
idea by idea, twilight with dawn, death with life. This is Simion
Muntean, who was born in Oncesti, in the province of Maramures,
Romania. He should well deserve the our modest scrutiny.
CHROMATIC
THERAPY