Manda Vasile

Manda Vasile signed his amateur painting “Vizită de lucru în Județul Argeș” with a felt-tip pen in 1982. Right in the center, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu receive bouquets while factories named Dacia and ARO loom behind them, like a shop window where everything is for show. The frame still carries the red stamp of the local party committee, a relic that never got hung in the palace. Look it up and you’ll see how a backyard painter could turn propaganda into folk art.