GRAPHIC AND PAINTING CREATION SIGNET BY THE MOLDOVAN VISUAL ARTIST ION SFECLĂ

Abstract

The visual artist Ion Sfeclă (19.11.1941-27.05.2020) created several valuable works in various techniques of graphic art and easel painting. In parallel with his creative activity, he worked as a teacher at the Republican College of Fine (Visual) Arts “Alexandru Plămădeală” in Chisinau. Participating in various exhibitions, creative camps, international and national, the artist Ion Sfeclă manifested himself as a talented author of thematic compositions, landscapes, still-lifes and portraits. His watercolor landscapes and etchings, as well as the sketches of illustrations created in the same technique are of the great expressive force. The National Museum of Art of Moldova preserves the series of etching compositions dedicated to the Mihai Eminescu subject, dating from 1983, which can be analyzed as sketches of illustrations and those dedicated to the old city (Chisinau), from 1991. In creation the artist tended to approach philosophically the subjects chosen through associations, metaphors and symbols. The visual artist Ion Sfeclă had an expressive, fresh and at the same time rational artistic vision, managing to unite the content with the plastic form, composition and color. At the heart of his creative pursuits were the images and faces of people, the landscapes, the still0lifes, the rhythm and decorativism, the simplicity and stylization inspired by the folk wisdom and the beauty of the immediate reality. The artist has taken an interesting path from socialist realism to abstract art, from the painting to graphics works keeping the expressive charm of emotions in his creation. Ion Sfeclă’s creation denotes artistic refinement, the poetic sense of nature and colors, a free exploration of graphic and pictorial processes, in combination with original compositional ideas.