Nichita Stanescu is my favorite Romanian writer. I chose him, because every time I read his creations, I have an unexplainable sensation that no other author ever calls me. His style is unique, so candid and yet part of the erotic category, it is the naivete that we sometimes choose to do. To read his works means to have the power to decipher each phrase written with his inherently eternal spirit. One of the poems that made me designate my favorite author (say one because I have more: "Other math", "Young Lioness , love "," how good you are ", etc.) is" In the sweet classic style. "Poetry is part of the volume with the same name and is a lyrical creation that synthesizes the amorous lamentations and the troubadour style. In this poem, love is caricatured, perspicuous, and minimized by the pattern of a syrupy lyric.

         The theme of poetry is, in a first reading, erotic. The poet improvises "a sweet love" story "in the sweet classic style." The text can support the categorization of the poetic arts. If we subordinate to Nichita Stanescu's poetic creation, we get the painting of the artistic lab, at the moment of "meeting" with the poet and inspiration. From another point of view, the poet uses love as a way of knowing, so poetry becomes a reproduction of the "meeting" of the ideal couple.

         The structure of poetry is a classic composition: 5 monochromes built on the principle of monorhyme, in contradiction with a last free verse. This fixes the poet's poor condition. The entire structure creates the impression of spontaneity in the release of feelings; the man meets the love that transforms him .The text sequences follow the evolution of the idyll at the time of the museum, at the moment of revelation, the formulation of the poetic "ideal" and the return to the original state.

        The first sequence consists of the first two stanzas and represents "a ritual of habit" of the meeting between the poetic ego and the universe, between the relative and the absolute. It is composed of a succession of "boulder" metaphors, "bitter birds", "insertion in the evening." These are united by the fact that they all have their presence in nature.

         The second sequence represents the moment of maximum lyrical tension, the third strofa. Conscious of the uniqueness of the lived moment, the poet reduces communication to the simplest form, supporting it stylistically by repetition.  The third sequence is the fourth stroff. She sees the poet reduced to the condition of the victim of his own illusion. Looking at solititudine, he perceives life as a state of "illness," under the sign of the desire of death.

        The fourth sequence represented by the last stage of the ester is a serious meditation on the issue of inevitable and irreversible leakage of time. The phrase from the end of poetry, "the passes pass, I remain" is a classic formula. I did this analysis of the poetry that seemed to me to be one of Nichita's just to highlight the features that made me choose him as my favorite Romanian author.          Nichita's poetic existence is steady and mobile at the same time. The poet maintains his demiurgical status, but continues to melt in the metaphors of his verse the boundaries between concrete and abstract, meanwhile, a timelessness, between existential and illusion. It merges with poetry, creating an original. Nichita has the tendency to self- about the art, the artist and the report he / she establishes with those he writes ("Ars poetica"). The poet's raid, according to his reasoning, is serious because he has to "communicate the one, to make it communicable with an address very broad, which is, in fact, profoundly singular. "(Words and Immortals). And now, the famous poetry: In the sweet classic-style             ,  by Nichita Stanescu

From a boulder descends

your step by step.

From a green leaf, pale

your step by step.

From an evening out

your step by step.

From a bitter bird

your step by step.

One second, one second

I have been seen in the wave.

He had a reddish bow.

My heart slowly sinks.

Stay on your way

like my tympan

cursed and demoted

for I am very sorry.

I stand long and say,

Miss, nothing

under the dwarf sun

gilt and mosaic.

The step passes I stay.

Source: http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poeti_tr/stanescu_eng.php

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He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Cervantes. Nicknamed "The Phoenix of Wits" and "Monster of Nature" by Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega renewed the Spanish theatre at a time when it was starting to become a mass cultural phenomenon. He took Spanish Baroque theatre to its greatest heights. Because of the insight, depth and ease of his plays, he is regarded as one of the greatest dramatists in Western literature, his plays still being produced worldwide. Some 3,000 sonnets, 3 novels, 4 novellas, 9 epic poems, and about 500 plays are attributed to him.

My favorite writer is Mihai Eminescu, born Mihail Eminovici on 15 January 1850  and deceased on 15 June 1889,  who was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. His work encompassed every genre of poetry (love, philosophical, cosmological, mythological, historical, socio-satiric etc.) as well as prose and journalism.

The most famous Romanian poet, the “man of genius”, Mihai Eminescu has influenced a lot of people's lives and his poems have been studied for a long time in all Romanian schools.

One of my favorite Mihai Eminescu’s poems is “The forest pool” (plus “Blue flower”, “What is love…?”). Those are simply, and impossibly complicated, beautiful, clever, beyond any other poem with the perfect note of melancholy for me. But at the same time I can’t compare the beauty and the wonder of these poems because each and every one of them has a profound meaning that touches my soul everytime I read them. I couldn’t belive the impact of the words until my first reading of an Eminescian piece of inspirational work that I embraced with all my heart compassionately.

I consider him a phylantropist because in his poems he expresses his love for the nature, birds, lakes, trees and everything that, in his vision, represents someone close to him, all those elements that make up the constructive nature are the only ones who are able to reflect his feelings and to sympathize with him. Relating with nature is such a sacre thing, that I myself found thinking about when I’m wandering in a park.

He thrives through writing, through the harmonious flow of structured words into wonderful verses, rhymes and all his states of mind and emotional states (feelings) and moods are well voiced, well expressed, outstanding and beyond to compare with.

Mihai Eminescu was a tall, handsome campassionate man, who believed in great. “He was a beauty! A classic figure framed by large black tresses : a high and serene forehead, big eyes - seeing those windows of the soul that someone is inside; a gentle and a deep melancholy smile. He had the air of a young saint descended from an old icon, a child predestined to pain, on the face of which he saw the writing of future torments [...]” (George Calinescu describing Mihai).

His style and perception on other human beings impressed a large and vast amount of people and influenced  everyone around this world, his incredible writings being translated in 60 languages.

Moreover, he studied at Vienna and Berlin and the respect for him was shown by building statues of him all around the world.

He induced the idea that everyone’s purpose in life is to search your inner self, and in each one of his masterpieces he exposed  a different meaning to life. For instance, in “The forest lake” he was abandoned by his lover and he became resigned comprehending the bitterness, nostalgia of the failure in love. In “So delicate” and “Eve on the Hill” he appears to be deeply in love and his soul is filled with happiness

Mihai Eminescu will always and forever remain my favorite poet and I will forever consider him the best due to the overwhelming feelings I get everytime I read his work. I am so glad, thrilled and thankful he exists.

“The Lake”

 

Water lilies load all over

The blue lake amid the woods,

That imparts, while in white circles

Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing

Listening, waiting, in unrest,

That she from the reeds may issue

And fall, gently, on my breast;

 

That we may jump in the little

Boat, while water's voices whelm

All our feelings; that enchanted

I may drop my oars and helm;

 

That all charmed we may be floating

While moon's kindly light surrounds

Us, winds cause the reeds to rustle

And the waving water sounds.

But she does not come; abandoned,

Vainly I endure and sigh

Lonely, as the water lilies

On the blue lake ever lie.

“Eve on the Hill”

 

Dreary the horn sounds in the eve on the hill,

Sheepflocks return, stars on their way twinkle still,

Watersprings weep murmuring clear, and I see

Under a tree, love, thou art waiting for me.

 

Holy and pure passes the moon on the sky,

Moist seem the stars born from the vault clear and high,

Longing thine eyes look from afar to divine,

Heaving thy breast, pensive thy head doth recline.

 

Tired with their toil, peasants come back from the field,

From the old church, labourer's comfort and shield,

Voices of bells thrill the whole sky high above;

Struck is my heart, trembling and burning with love.

 

Ah! very soon quietness steals over all,

Ah! very soon hasten shall I to thy call,

Under the tree, there I shall sit the whole night,

Telling thee, love, thou art my only delight.

 

Cheek press'd to cheek, there in sweet ecstasy we,

Falling asleep under the old locust-tree,

Smiling in dream, seem in a heaven to live,

For such a night who his whole life would not give?

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My favorite writer is Mihai Eminescu, born Mihail Eminovici on 15 January 1850  and deceased on 15 June 1889,  who was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. His work encompassed every genre of poetry (love, philosophical, cosmological, mythological, historical, socio-satiric etc.) as well as prose and journalism.

The most famous Romanian poet, the “man of genius”, Mihai Eminescu has influenced a lot of people's lives and his poems have been studied for a long time in all Romanian schools.

One of my favorite Mihai Eminescu’s poems is “The forest pool” (plus “Blue flower”, “What is love…?”). Those are simply, and impossibly complicated, beautiful, clever, beyond any other poem with the perfect note of melancholy for me. But at the same time I can’t compare the beauty and the wonder of these poems because each and every one of them has a profound meaning that touches my soul everytime I read them. I couldn’t belive the impact of the words until my first reading of an Eminescian piece of inspirational work that I embraced with all my heart compassionately.

I consider him a phylantropist because in his poems he expresses his love for the nature, birds, lakes, trees and everything that, in his vision, represents someone close to him, all those elements that make up the constructive nature are the only ones who are able to reflect his feelings and to sympathize with him. Relating with nature is such a sacre thing, that I myself found thinking about when I’m wandering in a park.

He thrives through writing, through the harmonious flow of structured words into wonderful verses, rhymes and all his states of mind and emotional states (feelings) and moods are well voiced, well expressed, outstanding and beyond to compare with.

Mihai Eminescu was a tall, handsome campassionate man, who believed in great. “He was a beauty! A classic figure framed by large black tresses : a high and serene forehead, big eyes - seeing those windows of the soul that someone is inside; a gentle and a deep melancholy smile. He had the air of a young saint descended from an old icon, a child predestined to pain, on the face of which he saw the writing of future torments [...]” (George Calinescu describing Mihai).

His style and perception on other human beings impressed a large and vast amount of people and influenced  everyone around this world, his incredible writings being translated in 60 languages.

Moreover, he studied at Vienna and Berlin and the respect for him was shown by building statues of him all around the world.

He induced the idea that everyone’s purpose in life is to search your inner self, and in each one of his masterpieces he exposed  a different meaning to life. For instance, in “The forest lake” he was abandoned by his lover and he became resigned comprehending the bitterness, nostalgia of the failure in love. In “So delicate” and “Eve on the Hill” he appears to be deeply in love and his soul is filled with happiness

Mihai Eminescu will always and forever remain my favorite poet and I will forever consider him the best due to the overwhelming feelings I get everytime I read his work. I am so glad, thrilled and thankful he exists.

“The Lake”

 

Water lilies load all over

The blue lake amid the woods,

That imparts, while in white circles

Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing

Listening, waiting, in unrest,

That she from the reeds may issue

And fall, gently, on my breast;

 

That we may jump in the little

Boat, while water's voices whelm

All our feelings; that enchanted

I may drop my oars and helm;

 

That all charmed we may be floating

While moon's kindly light surrounds

Us, winds cause the reeds to rustle

And the waving water sounds.

But she does not come; abandoned,

Vainly I endure and sigh

Lonely, as the water lilies

On the blue lake ever lie.

“Eve on the Hill”

 

Dreary the horn sounds in the eve on the hill,

Sheepflocks return, stars on their way twinkle still,

Watersprings weep murmuring clear, and I see

Under a tree, love, thou art waiting for me.

 

Holy and pure passes the moon on the sky,

Moist seem the stars born from the vault clear and high,

Longing thine eyes look from afar to divine,

Heaving thy breast, pensive thy head doth recline.

 

Tired with their toil, peasants come back from the field,

From the old church, labourer's comfort and shield,

Voices of bells thrill the whole sky high above;

Struck is my heart, trembling and burning with love.

 

Ah! very soon quietness steals over all,

Ah! very soon hasten shall I to thy call,

Under the tree, there I shall sit the whole night,

Telling thee, love, thou art my only delight.

 

Cheek press'd to cheek, there in sweet ecstasy we,

Falling asleep under the old locust-tree,

Smiling in dream, seem in a heaven to live,

For such a night who his whole life would not give?

Source:
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Born on June 1^st 1956 in Bucharest to a modest family of workers, Mircea Cartarescu is undoubtedly the most important writer of his generation and, as some critics say, the best Romanian writer ever.

Nothing would have recommended the young Cartarescu for such a remarkable literary career when he graduated from an average high school and was later admitted to University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language and Literature which he graduated from in 1980. 

Following his graduation, he started working as a teacher of Romanian language and literature in an obscure secondary school at the outskirts of the Romanian capital between 1980 and 1989.

This period coincides with his literary debut and the publication of a number of volumes of poetry - "Faruri, vitrine, fotografii" (1980; Spotlights, Display Windows, Photos), "Poeme de amor" (1983; Love Poems) and "Totul" (1985; Everything) -, which made him a leading figure of his generation.

However, towards the end of the 80’s he turned increasingly to prose, tough still retaining the poetic quality of his lyric work. His volumes of short stories and novels have been translated in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hungarian, as he has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes, the most recent of which being Premio Gregor von Rezzori in 2016 for his novel ,”Bliding”.

I became fascinated with Cartarescu after reading his volume of short stories “Nostalgia”. It was mainly because of the vivid descriptions of Bucharest’s most mundane places that came to life due to his narrative artistry that I grew to like his writings so much.

What makes Cartarescu stand out from other Romanian writers is his capacity to transform the simplest experiences into fascinating ones, the ordinary communist places of a capital under construction into a labyrinth where a touch of supernatural mingles with a depressing reality.

Here’s how he describes a narrow street in the Bucharest of the late 70’s:”As the twilight slowly engulfed Venerei Street, the rotting bodies of the fridges abandoned in the very middle of the road, right next Silvestru School, eaten away by the rainfall and drizzle became incredibly pink, and the whole landscape seemed perfectly artificial, all to my utter despair.” (1993, Humanitas Publishing House, Nostalgia- The Twins)

In addition, Cartarescu is the one writer I have known so far able to identify and write about the inner most intense emotions of the teenage years. The first love, silly, yet atrocious, the age gap growing deeper and deeper as the parents seem to age just as fast as the adolescents mature, friendships that die before they even have the chance to be put to the test or the typical drama of school life, they are all filtered through the writer’s imagination.

I personally appreciate the most this extraordinary capacity to identify the transformations the child undergoes to reach adolescence, then the teenagers experience as they reach maturity, because I am myself at this age of profound changes of both physical and psychological nature. 

It is rather rare for a Romanian writer to explore in such depth the mind and soul of children as well as teenagers and Cartarescu does just that in many of his short stories that mix figments of dreams with quite realistic depictions of everyday life mapping the growing up with all its complex ups and downs.

As one who wants to become a physician, I discovered in Cartarescu’s stories a keen interest for the human body too. He explores it with just as much intensity as he observes the mental processes, he describes the physical aspects of the human existence as directly connected with the psychological one:

”We were staring at him in disbelief. We moved forward, some to the right, others to his left, measuring and gaping at his huge knees, the seemingly endless femur, his back bone like one of an antediluvian reptile, his ribs the size of a ship’s united in the laced triangular bone of the sternum. Beyond the collar bones and the shoulder blades, at the end of the seven vertebrae of the neck, his skull grinned at us.” (1993, Humanitas Publishing House, Nostalgia- REM)

From where I stand, what makes Cartarescu’s writing outstanding, though, is his unmatchable capacity to intertwine the reality of the narrative with a dream like alternative reality. His dreams are almost palpable, elaborate and filled with a sense of awe and mystery that cannot but fascinate:

“I guess that night I dreamt of the infinite park once again, its misty, crepuscular alleys crisscrossing all the way to the horizon, its huge monument of ancestral bricks rising higher than anything in this world. [ ...] I was feeling perfectly lonely, following that monstrous, dough like growth of my body as I could see closer and closer the round window like a scarlet sun on top of the dome.” (1993, Humanitas Publishing House, Nostalgia- The Twins)

To wrap things up, I am convinced that Mircea Cartarescu is undoubtedly not only one the greatest writers Romania has ever had, but given the chance to be properly translated he will gain international recognition to an even greater extend due to his ability to blend fantasy and reality, the grotesque and the most delicate aspects of our human nature.

  Sources: http://dilemaveche.ro/autor/mircea-cartarescu

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    Tudor Arghezi (21May1880-14July1967) was a popular Romanian writer, best known for his contribution to poetry and children’s literature. His real name was Ion Nae Theodorescu and he explained that his pen name was related with Argesis- the Latin name for the Arges River.

   He graduated from Saint Sava High School in October 1891, started working for his studies, and made his debut 1896, publishing verses in Alexandru Macedonski’s magazine “Liga Ortodoxa” under name Ion Theo. He tried to be a monk at Cernica Monastery because his uncle was a very important orthodox person and because he was idle. After that experience he wrote a book “Cimitirul Buna Vestire”. This book is a pamphlet and he mocked the monachal world. What I really find interesting at him is his spontaneity, his nonconformism and his “out of the box” perspective.

    For his remarkable activity, he received for the very first time in 1936 The National Poetry reward.

   In 1955 he became a “Romanian Academy” member. Ten years later he got the “Johann Gottfried von Herder”.

   My favourite poem is “Prisaca”. It is about hardworking bees, their solitaire sens, the bee master who forgot them and the consequences of winter. I love Tudor Arghezi’s poem because you can imagine anything you want to. For example: those diligent bees-> my classmates and I when we are working for something and we are all receiving the awards of a kindness and an altruism task.

   The most popular poems are: “Flori de mucigai”, “Cartea cu Jucarii”  and “Carticica de Seara” consigned to children.

    He died as poet, prose writer and journalist at the age of 87 years old, 14Jul1967.
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He was a soldier,  a famous novelist , poet and dramatist.

His most famous book is El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, most known as Don Quijote de la Mancha but he has many other famous books.

Francisco de Goya was a painter and engraver Spanish . His work includes easel and mural painting , engraving and drawing. In all these facets developed a style that inaugurates Romanticism . Goya art is also the beginning of contemporary painting and is a precursor of the pictorial avant-gardes of the20th century ; for all this, he is considered one of the most relevant Spanish artists and one of the great masters of art history .

She died of a lung cancer the 27 of November of 1998 with 81 years in Madrid, Spain

 

Beginning his career as a furniture designer, he was attracted to the comics industry in the late 1970s by the work of artists like Enki Bilal and Moebius, and in 1979 he turned to art as a full-time career  Within a few years, he was publishing art within and on the covers of such magazines as Comix Rambla Internacional, El Vibora, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon and Comic Art as well as providing cover illustrations for several American publishers. 

Some of his songs are:

-Mi princesa

-Antes que no

-Ave María

Now a days is a singer and an artist,she sings: Pop, pop rock, spanish pop, balada, rock and alternative rock.

With more than 2,500,000 albums sold, it has numerous recognitions such as the Andalusia Medal for "A Whole Race" awarded in 2015, the Ondas Award for "Best Artist of the Year" obtained in 2014 or two nominations for the Latin Grammys in 2011 in the category of «Best Female Pop Vocal Album» and in 2013 in the category «Song of the Year» with the theme Only love will save us

 

 

His first painting was  exhibited in Paris in 1890. 

 

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish ArchitectHe was born in Reus, in Catalonia, and became a leader of Catalan modernism. Gaudí's works are in his own style. Most are in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, especially his greatest work, the Sagrada Familia.

 

 

Considered to be a wonder-child, little Jurjac (the pet-name given by his family and the close ones), as early as the age of five, dreamt to be a composer: “It’s odd though: I never knew anything, I never listened to anything or to very little, I never had anyone near me who could influence me.  And still, as a child, I had a definite idea about being a composer. Just a composer“, George Enescu said later to Bernard Gavoty, a music critic and a radio journalist.

 

At the age of 3, he had one of those decisive musical experiences when he heard, by accident and for the first time, some fiddlers playing near to his native village. Impressed by what he heard, the child tried to imitate the instruments of the folk music band the very next day: the violin was a “thread sewn on a piece of wood” (G. Enescu in B. Gavoty, George Enescu´s Memoires), the cembalo was a couple of wooden sticks, and he imitated the reed pipe by blowing through his lips.

 

He receives his first musical notions from his father at the age of 4. As they noticed his preoccupation with the art of sounds, his parents give the little musician a small violin with three strings. He gets upset because he isn’t taken seriously and given a real violin and throws the toy into the fire. Only after he receives the violin he dreamt of, so much, he starts playing by ear, on a single string, with one finger, the songs he heard in the village.

 

In 1886, Eduard Caudella, who was a composer and a professor at the Conservatoire in Iasi, noticed George Enescu’s special talent and advised his parents to direct him towards musical studies. Proofs of his first attempts at composition are dated 1887, the next year, when Enescu (born August 19, 1881 in Liveni-Varnav (now George Enescu town, Dorohoi county) was only six years old.

 

As soon as I had a piano at my disposal, I started composing. (…) I changed with a profound joy the monody instrument I had been playing at until then with a polyphonic instrument; it was so good to revel in strains after I couldn’t do anything else but play some songs without any accompaniment at all! (…) And, without any hesitation, I started composing.

(G. Enescu in B. Gavoty, George Enescu’s Memories)

Between 1888 and 1894, George Enescu was studying at the Vienna Conservatoire with renowned professors of the time, such as Siegmund Bachrich and Josef Hellmesberger Junior (violin), Ernst Ludwig (piano) and Robert Fuchs (harmony, counterpoint and composition).

 

At the recommendation of Josef Hellmesberger, violin professor and the son of the director of Vienna Conservatoire, George Enescu was sent by his father to study in Paris. Thus, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1895 – 1899) under the guidance of professors Martin-Pierre-Joseph Marsick and Jose White for violin, Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré for composition, Ambroise Thomas and Theodore Dubois for harmony, and André Gédalge for counterpoint.

 

The four “school symphonies” date back from the period he spent studying in Paris: The Romanian Poem Op. 1 (1897) for orchestra and male choir, Sonata no. 1 for piano and violin in D major Op. 2 (1897), Suite no. 1 in G minor, in the old style, for piano Op. 3 (1897), Sonata no. 2 for piano and violin in F minor Op. 6 (1899), works that brought the young composer George Enescu the acknowledgement.

 

Although, what he wanted most was to compose music and not to become a virtuoso violin player, the studies, the perseverance and the participation in violin competitions at the Conservatoire in Paris brought Enescu a second prize in 1898 and, a year later, the first prize – with which he graduated on July 24th, 1899 the violin class at the Conservatoire in Paris; and he was offered a precious Bernardel violin with his name engraved on it, on this occasion.

 

However, even then, I wasn’t thinking too much about violin. I was drunk with music and not with giving performance on an instrument. I dreamt only about composing, composing, and again composing. (…) As I remember those happy times, I smile to myself. Sure, to master my quill and exercise my spirit, I wrote a lot – it is true – but I dare say that everything came from the bottom of my heart!

(G. Enescu in B. Gavoty, George Enescu’s Memories)

As a performer, he founded and conducted two instrumental music ensembles in Paris: a piano trio (in 1902) and a string quartet (in 1904).  He played in Germany, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain and the USA.

 

The best known Enescu’s compositions date back to the first years of the 20th century. Among those there are  the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901-1902), Suite no. 1 for orchestra in C major, Op. 9 (composed in 1903 and firstly performed  in 1911 by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the renowned composer and conductor Gustav Mahler), and Symphony in E flat major, Op. 13, no. 1 (1905).

 

In 1913, he created and paid from his own money the George Enescu National Composition Award, which was given annually until 1946. This composition competition was organized to encourage Romanian creation and offered the winners, alongside generous amounts of money, the opportunity of having their works interpreted in a concert. George Enescu was also the founder (in 1920) and the president (from 1920 till 1948) of the Romanian Composers’ Society in Bucharest.

 

During World War I, together to his creative activity, Enescu gave concerts in Romania for the wounded in hospitals. After the war, he resumed his tours as a violinist and conductor in Switzerland, France, Holland, Spain, USA, Portugal, Canada etc.

 

The musician founded The Symphonic Orchestra in Iași and he conducted it between 1918 and 1920; he also conducted Philharmonic Society Orchestra (1898-1906), Public Instruction Ministry Orchestra (1906-1920), and of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest (1920-1946).

 

Enescu was often invited at the Peleș Castle by Queen Elisabeth of Romania (whose pen-name was Carmen Sylva) to give concerts and violin recitals. A series of songs in German are the result of the artistic collaboration between Enescu, the composer, and the Queen, the author.

 

His most beloved composition, the one he worked on for more than 10 years, is the opera Oedipe, Op. 23. Finished in 1931, it was dedicated to Maria Rosetti-Cantacuzino, the woman who became, in 1937, George Enescu’s wife.

 

During his work at the opera Oedip, George Enescu finished a series of symphonic and chamber pieces, representative for the composer’s mature style: Symphony no. 2 in A major, Op. 17 (1914), Suite for orchestra no. 2 in C major, Op. 20 (1915), Symphony no. 3 in C major, Op. 21 (1918-1921), as well as String Quartet no. 1, in E flat, Op. 22 (1920), Sonata for piano in F sharp minor, no. 1, Op. 24 (1924), Sonata for piano and violin no. 3, in A minor, in Romanian folk character, Op. 25 (1926).

 

They were followed by Sonata for piano and cello in C major, Op. 26 no. 2, dedicated to the great cello player Pablo Casals, Pastoral Suite in D major, Op. 27 (1939), two unfinished symphonies (reconstituted and orchestrated by composer Pascal Bentoiu), String Quartet in G major, Op. 22 no. 2 (1951), Chamber Symphony for 12 solo instruments, Op. 33 (1954), and Vox Maris, Op. 31, symphonic poem for mixed choir with tenor and soprano solo and a great orchestra (1954).

 

The international acknowledgement and fame brought George Enescu numerous occasions to give music interpretation courses, stylistic, analysis and musical forms classes at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, École Instrumentale “Yvonne Astruc” in Paris, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, in Siena (Italy), University of Illinois (USA), The Mannes Music School in New York,  in Brighton and Bryanstone (UK) etc. He taught composition classes at the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), and at the Conservatoire Américain din Fontainbleau (France).

 

Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel and Arthur Grumiaux are just some of the most known violinists who improved their performing art under the guidance of George Enescu.

 

Among the distinctions that were given to him as a sign of appreciation and acknowledgement there were: the titles of Officer and Chevalier of French Legion of Honor (1913, 1936), Honorary Member (1916) and Active Member (1933) of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, Correspondent Member of the Fine Arts Academy in Paris (1929), National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (1931), Institute of France in Paris (1936), and Arts and Sciences Academy in Prague (1937).

 

During the period that followed World War II, George Enescu leaves Romania and settles in Paris, where he died in 1955.

 

The memory of the great Romanian musician is revived by the International Festival that bears his name, as well as by symposiums taking place in Romania and abroad and, not in the least, by the specialized writings, the exhibitions, and the concerts organized by  “George Enescu” National Museum in Bucharest.

 

George Enescu, the composer, the conductor, the piano, the violin player and the professor (1881 – 1955) goes down in history as one of the most remarkable men of culture of the 20th century; he played a prominent part as a music ambassador both in his country and worldwide. He also involved himself actively in promoting Romanian music, composers, conductors and performers internationally.

 

Being a romantic and classical by instinct, I strived to keep, in all my works, a kind of balance that has its inner definite line.

(The Morning – anewspaper, in 1936)

Source: https://www.georgeenescu.ro/en/georgeenescu-ro-en_doc_20_george-enescu-biography-and-work_pg_0.htm

He was part of the Barbizon school of painters, painting alongside Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and Théodore Rousseau. After contributing paintings to the Universal Exposition of Paris 1867, Grigorescu, aged 39, was called to accompany the Romanian army as a frontline painter in the 1877 Romanian War of Independence.

Later on in his life, he worked in France for about 11 years and in 1890, he returned to the city of Câmpina, where he started painting pastoral themes, creating some of his best known works, including portraits of peasant girls, pictures of ox carts on dusty country roads and other landscapes.

His most famous paintings, which see him ranked among the most expensive painters locally, include Peasants Resting from Work (in Romanian Ţărăncuţă odihnindu-se), which fetched EUR 270,000 at auction last year, several versions of Ox Carts (in Romanian Car cu boi) and The Smârdan attack (Atacul de la Smârdan).

By the time Grigorescu died, in 1907, Tonitza was in his university years and had recently started to paint. In 1908, he left for Munich, where he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He then spent the following years in Paris, where he visited artists’ studios, and studied famous paintings. Similarly to Grigorescu, Tonitza too painted Orthodox churches.

While being a painter, he was also a newspaper editor, as well as a columnist. Inspired by the Impressionist movement, Tonitza was critical of Grigorescu, back then a trend-setter in Romanian art, and owed much of his style to his predecessor, Ștefan Luchian. Tonitza is known for his child portraits, as well as for potraits of young girls and for his flower paintings. His most expensive painting ever sold in Romania, In the bedroom (In iatac) sold for EUR 290,000 at a local auction in 2012, which ranked him first among the most expensive Romanian painters in 2012.

While in Paris, studying at the Juliard Academy, Tonitza was influenced by the impressionism movement, which was in full swing in the 1890s. In 1900, at the age of 32, he noticed the first signs of the multiple sclerosis, which would eventually leave him handicapped for his entire life. Even so, he managed to paint but failed to achieve much success during his lifetime. From 1909 until he died in 1916, he was stuck in an armchair. However Luchian continued to work, despite having difficulties holding the brush. Towards the end of his life, unable to hold the brush with his paralyzed fingers, he even requested it be tied to his wrist.

His self portrait, called A painter (Un zugrav), from 1907, is among the most iconic self portraits of a Romanian painter, and manages to depict the hardships of continuing to paint despite his illness. Among his most famous paintings are Annemonas (Anemone), numerous flower paintings, as well as portraits, Safta the flower girl (Safta florăreasa) and Moș Nicolae Cobzarul.

Back in Romania, he took part in the 1948 revolution, painting the portraits of revolutionaries Gheorghe Magheru and Ștefan Golescu, as well as that of Nicolae Bălcescu, in three almost identical copies. He continued to paint churches, having painted as many as 50 churches together with his students between 1853 and 1892.

He founded the school of belles artes, together with Theodor Aman. In Bucharest, the house where he lived for about 40 years was turned into a museum, which now houses many of his works (7 Domnița Anastasia St.)

In his early years, he painted landscapes in Romania and abroad, especially in France, Spain and Italy. His Venice landscapes are among his most famous works.

is a Spanish novelist and journalist.He has 65 years old, he live in Cartagena and he has a child called Carlota.

 He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

His first novel  was released in 1986. 

This year he wrote the script of the film called “ Oro” that it was performed for the first time .

 Right now he doesn´t  have any new book.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte 

is a Spanish novelist and journalist.He has 65 years old, he live in Cartagena and he has a child called Carlota.

 He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

His first novel  was released in 1986. 

This year he wrote the script of the film called “ Oro” that it was performed for the first time .

 Right now he doesn´t  have any new book.   

       In may 1934 she joined the ”Cărăbuș”Theatre of Constantin Tănase with the help and advice of newspaper writer Sandu Eliad, who, at that time was her partner. Her real debut took place on 2 June 1934 with the stage name Mary Atanasiu. In the fall of 1937 she recorded her first folk songs at the Columbia studio in Bucharest. On 20 February 1938 her voice was heard for the first time on the radio. 
       During World War II, together with George Enescu,George Vraca and Constantin Tănase, she was making stage tours singing in front of soldiers injured on the battlefield.        She sang in the movie "Romania" in 1947, and in 1958 she performed in both "Ciulinii Bărăganului” (The Thistles of the Bărăgan), and the short-reel film "Amintiri din Bucureşti" (Memories from Bucharest). 
        In 1955, Maria Tănase received the State Prize and in 1957 she was honored with the medals "Ordinul Muncii" (The Order for Activity), "Premiul de Stat" (The State Award), and the title "Artistă Emerită" (Honoured Artist of the Republic) for her contributions to the arts.
      Tănase died on 22 June 1963 because of cancer.She was buried at the Bellu cemetery in Bucharest.      
     
       Maria Tănase is the heart of traditional romanian music and she had an amazing story of life. I really admire her for her talent and her beauty. She will always remain in the soul of people.

 
source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W395ryBuqg

 

        He was very curious about how arts are developing abroad when he heard about Auguste Rodin’s life. He went to Munich, Germany and then he decided to go to Paris. Because he was a modest person and the trip was expensive, he made the most of the distance on foot. Here, in Paris, he creates his own studio in Montparnasse.

From his love for shaping stone he created a lot of famous sculptures. Some of his most famous creations are: the Gate of the Kiss, the Endless Column, the Table of Silence, Miss Pogany, and the Wisdom of the Earth. Many of his works are currently exposed in famous museums of the world.

The Gate of the Kiss from Targu Jiu represents a passage between two worlds. It symbolizes both life and death. Many Romanian writers have interpreted in their own style the meaning of this work.

The Endless Column is also an important creation of Constantin Brancusi. This signifies an axis of the world. The geometric shape of the sculpture suggests the ending and the beginning which are endless.

Constantin Brancusi is one of my favorite artists because he uses simplicity in a complex way. In many of his works he tries to suggest the movement by using the static stone as a tool. As an example, we can see this in a sculpture called: “Prayer” and it represents a woman who is praying.

Unfortunately, Constantin Brancusi was an artist who initially was unrecognized in his country. Now, his creations are very appreciated in our country and we are very proud that he was Romanian.

Sources: https://istoriiregasite.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/constantin-               brancusi-viata-si-opera/

                        http://brancusi.1dez.com/