Cristache GHEORGHIU

Cristache Gheorghiu is a painter born in Romania, at the 2nd of May 1937, graduated from the Polytechnic Institute from Iasy in 1959.
There are lots of official exhibitions in which he took part and received awards, and also he had many individual ones. We let the art critics and journalists to say their opinion, thinking that this is the best way for characterizing his works. That's why we selected here some excerpts from their articles. Today, he has his own studio and permanent exhibition in the downtown of Brasov, which is itself like a museum for tourists from throughout the world.

".... Cristache Gheorghiu distinguishes himself as a creator with multiple possibilities of painting in a modern artistic way. He develops the genre of lyric landscape in a realistic way, with a harmonious and sensitive language, while playing with light and shade...." "Cristache Gheorghiu fits with exactness the topic on the page, and wraps it up with profound emotions, increased by his ability to render the surrounding atmosphere." "Through these skills we are presented with the same location, during different moments in time! But, in all these cases, his toils inspire a calm and quiet atmosphere full of equilibrium..." "From a series of portraits, the author has chosen only a few, the consequence of a stringent exigency." "Compositional portraits which catch an action or a movement, portraits that catch the expression of the soul, portraits which arise from the rapoire between man and landscape..." "Cristache Gheorghiu is a master of the perspective, he shows much chromatic sensibility; and a great exigency in the choice of topics, which ensures him already of a well defined place in the world of Brasov's landscape-painters."