Autoportret iarna / Self-portrait in Winter

NP, seria Anotimpurilor / Seasons series, 2006

ulei pe lemn cașerat cu pânză / oil on wood (covered with a layer of textile), 33,5 x 23,5 cm

Lucrare disponibilă spre vânzare. / Available for purchase.

lumină caldă / warm light

lumină rece / cold light

contre-jour

detalii / details

din lateral / from the side

cu umbre / with shadows

spatele, cu semnătură / signed back

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”It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Christ was not merely the supreme individualist, but he was the first individualist in history. People have tried to make him out an ordinary philanthropist, or ranked him as an altruist with the scientific and sentimental. But he was really neither one nor the other. Pity he has, of course, for the poor, for those who are shut up in prisons, for the lowly, for the wretched; but he has far more pity for the rich, for the hard hedonists, for those who waste their freedom in becoming slaves to things, for those who wear soft raiment and live in kings’ houses. Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow. And as for altruism, who ...

Autoportret toamna / Self-portrait in the Fall

NP, seria Anotimpurilor / Seasons series , 2006 ulei pe lemn cașerat cu pânză / oil on wood (covered with a layer of textile), 29,5 x 19,5 cm Lucrare disponibilă spre vânzare. / Available for purchase. lumină caldă / warm light lumină rece / cold light detalii / details în peisaj / in context spatele, cu semnătură / signed back

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