Artist

pictor Ion D. C. Tarăsescu

pictor Ion D. C. Tarăsescu is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Heritage Institute, Bucharest.

Ion D. C. Tarăsescu painted the names of the dead on canvas like a living record, no grand poses, just rows of small, careful letters in muted colors. You can almost hear the hush of a village war memorial in his Monument to Heroes of WWI and WWII, where the strokes blur into shadows behind the names. Look up this painting if you’ve ever stood in a quiet square where the stone has started to lean; it’s the same quiet, but on cloth.

Works by pictor Ion D. C. Tarăsescu

Collections represented

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