Port Tomis Constanta Romania
Salut,
Tonight it’s raining cats and dogs as it does in New England as opposed to pouring down rain as it does in Virginia. Thankfully it stopped from mid-morning until mid-afternoon so we could get out for a walk. The wind isn’t so fierce now as it was earlier. Tomorrow Randal and Rick will go off to the chandlery for parts and then hopefully, if the weather cooperates and the crane can come, the mast will go back up tomorrow. If not, hopefully Tuesday.
This email is for all of you art lovers out there. I truly enjoyed visiting the Silistra Art Gallery. Randal was a hero and waited for me but I could have stayed all day. I didn’t but have photos I can return to as well as the Gallery Catalog. The Gallery is in a lovely building in the town center. Very well maintained and a pleasure to visit.
We checked out from Bulgaria in Silistra so our next photo stop will be Brailia, Romania.
Ru
“Silistra Art Gallery houses one of the finest collections in our country and presents major achievements in 20th century Bulgarian fine art…..
The gallery located in the downtown area was founded in 1072 as a department of the Silistra History Museum. At that time it occupied the first floor of the city’s most impressive building, built at the turn of the 19th century. Since 1986, when the second floor was reconstructed, this admirable piece of architecture has been functioning as the city Art Gallery.” Catalog of the permanent collection of the Silistra Art Gallery
The photos labeled below were in the museum catalog of the permanent collection. The labels describing the current exhibition were in Bulgarian sad for me. The others were some of my favorites.
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Dimitar Kulev (Tania Dimitrova Kuleva) and self-portrait lithograph I believe.
Dimitar kindly walked me around the museum and though we didn’t speak the same language we could share the art. It’s really a wonderful museum. |
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My Land So Beautiful 1986 Stoyan Venev 1904-1989 National Academy of the Arts Sofia in 1931
Fire Walkers 1973 Zlatyu Boyadjiev 1903 – 1976 National Academy of Arts Sofia in 1932 |
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A City Morning 1986 Svetlin Rusev 1933- National Academy of Arts Sofia 1959 |
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A collage |
“The early impetus of Bulgarian traditions in the arts was cut short by the Ottoman occupation in the 14th century, and many early masterpieces were destroyed. Native artistic life emerged again in Bulgaria during the national revival in the 19th century. Among the most influential works were the secular and realist paintings of Zahari Zograph in the first half of the century and Hristo Tsokev in the second half. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, Bulgarian painters such as Anton Mitov and the Czech-born Ivan Mrkvichka produced memorable works, many of them depicting the daily life of the Bulgarian people.
In the early decades of the 20th century, further development of both style and subject matter took place, and the foundations were laid for later artists such as Vladimir Dimitrov, an extremely gifted painter specializing in the rural scenes of his native country; Tsanko Lavrenov, a noted graphic artist and art critic who also painted scenes of old Bulgarian towns; Zlatyo Boyadjiev, noted for his village portraits; and Ilya Petrov, who painted scenes and themes from Bulgarian history. After World War II, Socialist Realism dominated Bulgarian artistic circles. Its influence was seen in the broad historical themes that were adopted by artists in genres ranging from cartoons to still-life paintings and regional landscapes. At the beginning of the 21st century, the best-known contemporary Bulgarian artist was Christo, an environmental sculptor known for wrapping famous structures, such as the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin, in fabric and plastic.”
www.sbhart.com/en is the website for the Union of Bulgarian Artists with current activities and archived exhibition information.