1977
From the collection of National Museum of Art of Romania
Natură statică cu lingură de lemn is a 1977 by Micaela Eleutheriade, depicting Rare Book, held at National Museum of Art of Romania.
This painting shows a few simple objects on a rough, yellowish surface. There’s a dark, rounded shape that looks like a pile of stacked things, a red cloth, a brown bowl, and a wooden spoon lying on its side. The colors are bold—reds, browns, and grays—with thick, uneven brushstrokes that make it feel rough and textured. The wooden spoon is the only object that looks real and familiar in this odd scene. The rest feels more like shapes than actual things, almost like the artist was playing with how we see everyday objects. If you like this mix of real and abstract, check out impasto to see how artists use thick paint.
Micaela Eleutheriade (1900–1982) was a noted Romanian painter and engraver. She was a descendant, through her mother, of the painter Gheorghe Tattarescu, the pioneer of neoclassicism in Romania.
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