Petru Botezatu PETRU BOTEZATU is internationally acclaimed for his paintings and murals, featured in museums and in both private and public collections. He is best known his extraordinary creativity and originality, for the large ensembles of his frescoes, unparalleled in our time, and his heroic attempt to escape simple decorativism in favor of meaningful and superb composition. His European background enabled him to acquire an incredible mastery and a glorious dominance of his art and his subjects, both sacred and secular. This is expressed with amazing versatility in all mediums; drawings on paper, watercolors, sculptures and reliefs, carvings and murals. |
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original oil on canvas 20" x 24" signed certificate of authenticity accepting offers from: $1,950 for sale | |
| PETRU BOTEZATU is one of only a few fresco muralist masters living and creating in today's world. Though frescoes traditionally are large works decorating palaces, cathedrals, and other public buildings, the artist has found a way to create smaller pieces, treated as traditional paintings, after applying the plaster directly to the canvas or panel. The use of acrylic paint enables him to paint as if he were using pure water pigments. Thus, these paintings have an aged look, with time worn edges and gentle cracks, enhancing the impression that they have just been removed from some ancient wall. |
acrylic on fresco plaster applied on canvas 20" x 24" framed certificate of authenticity accepting offers from: $1,950 for sale |
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acrylic on fresco plaster applied on canvas 20" x 24" framed certificate of authenticity accepting offers from: $2,300 for sale | |
| Rondo Capriccioso is an excellent example of Renaissance reminiscent, fresco-based painting with a suave, Boticellian feel, contemporarily styled; aerial yet still impetuous. There is music flowing from this image. There is an undeniable pre-classical atmosphere transporting the viewer into another world. |
acrylic on fresco plaster applied on canvas 20" x 24" framed certificate of authenticity accepting offers from: $2,300 for sale |
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| As with all painting by Petru, the Solar Harp embodies his perpetual artistic effort of creating images which express, in a highly transfigured manner, an idea, either poetic, symbolic, or metaphoric. The sun overflows the universe with rays of music, becoming under the instrumentalist's fingers, a solar harp. |
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Petru Botezatu contact the artist at RaphaelGalleries@earthlink.net |
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