Album despre IULIA HALAUCESCU (31.03.1924 Tarcău Neamtz-18.12.2007 Piatra Neamtz)

Monitorul de Neamt » Stiri Locale 31 Martie 2007

Iulia Hălăucescu, încă un an în buchetul de culori al vietii

• „Am muncit si-am respectat harul cu care m-a înzestrat natura, Dumnezeu si doar atît. Restul a venit fără stirea si vrerea mea. M-am dăruit artei si oamenilor, pentru ei trăind si în prezent“, este crezul „Doamnei acuarelei românesti“

Iulia Hălăucescu îsi prinde, astăzi, în buchetul vietii un nou trandafir. Timpul a fost îmblînzit de mult de „Doamna acurelei românesti“ si doarme linistit la picioarele sale. Frumosul a fost arma cu care artista plastică Iulia Hălăucescu a învins efemerul oferindu-ne tuturor un refugiu în fata neîndurătorului Cronos, Iulia Hălăucescu s-a născut în 1924, la Tarcău si este membru la comitetului de conducere al Uniunii Artistilor Plastici din România. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere si Filosofie Bucuresti, Facultatea de Belle Arte Iasi, Institutul Nicolae Grigorescu Bucuresti si a făcut studii în particular cu pictorul emerit R. Schwetzer-Cumpăna. A participat la expozitia de artă plastică din 1947 (peste 150 de prezente) figurînd pe simezele a 33 saloane republicane de grafică, în 16 bienale de pictură. A deschis peste 60 de expozitii personale în tară si străinătate, dintre care patru mari restrospective, ultima în 2001 la Bucuresti - la Parlamentul României, în Sala Brîncusi. A participat la peste 30 de expozitii retrospective organizate de Ministerul Culturii. De asemenea, mesajul său artistic a ajuns în 75 de tări din Europa, America de Nord si de Sud, Africa si Asia. Are lucrări de artă monumentală, pictură murală, grafică si mozaic în marmură colorată, tapiterii monumentale. Marii critici de artă au apreciat lucrările artistei, începînd cu Petru Comarnescu, care a numit-o „Rapsod al Bicazului“, George Popa - „Fiică a muntilor si cerului Moldav“ si „Doamnă a florilor“, Aurel Leon - „Poeta Bicazului“, Ion Frunzetti, Eugen Schileru, Dan Grigorescu, Virgil Mocanu, Valentin Ciucă, Gabriela Bidu, Grigore Elizei. Maestră a acuarelei, creatoare de stil original si inconfundabil, Iulia Hălăucescu a fost numită „Doamna acuarelei românesti“. Referindu-se la opera sa, criticul Ion Parhon aprecia: „Rodul celor peste cinci decenii de creatie al artistei de o exemplară tinută profesională, care cu uimitoarea ei tenacitate, cu o modestie nepereche si cu o impetouasă întelepciune, a vrut si a reusit să facă din Piatra Neamt orasul unde «si-a ajuns siesi» o capitală europeană a acuarelei“. Pentru întreaga sa activitate artistică, a primit numeroase distinctii, dintre care amintim: „Diploma de Onoare“ acordată de către International Biographical Center - Cambridge din Anglia, si premiul pentru întreaga carieră din secolul XXI, acordat de The American Biographical Institute. Care este crezul artistic al Iuliei Hălăucescu? „Am muncit si-am respectat harul cu care m-a înzestrat natura, Dumnezeu si doar atît. Restul a venit fără stirea si vrerea mea. M-am dăruit artei si oamenilor, pentru ei trăind si în prezent“. Creatia unui artist nu se încheie niciodată, atîta timp cît sufletul său percepe realitatea din jur. Si asta pentru că nu poate trăi fără a da suflet frumusetii ce-l înconjoară. Or, Iulia Hălăucescu, continuă să se afle si acum, la vîrsta întelepciunii, în fata sevaletului, desăvîrsind universul culorilor în armonii sublime. La multi ani!

(Ion ASAVEI)


At the first personal exhibition of Iulia Halaucescu (1954 - Bucharest), Horia Horsia said that the artist is a master of watercolours, statement supported by more than 20 art critics in the 150 articles written on this issue. The art critics appreciated the cycle "Old and New Legends in the Bistrita Valey", which gained her the title of Rhapsodist of the Bicaz Region, the evocations at Lucian Blaga's and Omar Khayyam's poems and also the cycle "Floral Structures".
CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS
• Iulia Halaucescu - Master of Watercolours. The artist's firm mastery of the difficult technique of watercolours, artist who has proved herself to be a master of watercolours, demonstrating that any kind of emotions can be expressed in this domain as well, being at the same time an excellent drawer, with manly vigour perfectly combined with an amazing technical mastery (G. Coban, C.R. Constantinescu, A. Leon, I. Frunzetti etc.). Amelia Pavel, the famous historian and art critic stated that through the special cutting out of the motif concentrated on the essential respected in its distance she reminds of the greatest expressionist artists, Kirchner and Heckel.
• Iulia Halaucescu - Creator of Style. Many art critics considered her a creator of a viable style, her works bearing a specific tinge, both traditional and modern, which cannot be mistaken, a personal style easily recognizable at first sight, even in an exhibition with many paintings (I. Frunzetti, Adriana Stoica, Stelian Juncu, Eugenia Florescu, Marin Mihalache etc.). C. Ciopraga noticed that the style of this painter combines gravity with solemnity and with the legendary and Marina Preutu underlines her originality.
• The Monumentality in her Creation was stated by Gh. Oprescu, P. Comarnescu, G. Popa, C. Ciopraga, Al. Arbore, Radu Bogdan, V. Ciuca etc. A. Pavel says that Iulia Halaucescu certainly has an architect vocation which succeeds in imposing itself, strange paradox, through the very suavity of the watercolours.
THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT OF HER CREATION was noticed and commented upon not only by G. Popa who considers her a spiritual daughter of the Moldavian mountains, water and sky, but also C. Ciopraga R. Corban, Al. Ivan-Ghilea, G.A.M. Ciobanu, speaking both about the evocations at the philosophical poems of Lucian Blaga and Omar Khayyam's quatrains given the fact that the artist graduated the Academy of Philosophy as well. Amelia Pavel states that in the Romanian modern art Iulia Halaucescu is on the side of those whose creations require interpretations, guarantees of the "inner necessity" of the work as Kandinsky, the master of the spiritual experience, would say. "The Floral Structures" reconsider meditations on the secret mechanisms of nature, piercing analyses concerning the mutations of the form towards colour and the aspirations of the colour towards form, a drama of the vegetal nature.
THE RELATIONSHIP OIL - WATERCOLOUR PAINTING - The art critics consider Iulia Halaucescu has proved there is no limit between one and the other, that the artist has annihilated the preconception that watercolours represents a minor technique, unable to express major themes (Radu Negru, Stelian Juncu, Claudiu Paradais, Grigore Ilisei, Valentin Ciuca etc.) who confirme that Iulia Halaucescu turned watercolours into painting. The artist is appreciated and considered by more than 30 art critics a major personality of the Romanian contemporary art, a value of the feminine spirit, an honoured artist. Prof. dr. Constantin Ciopraga says that she originally continues the series of value of the genre and Marina Preutu admits that a simple touch of Iulia Halaucescu's painting brush gains values of personality. She is considered one of the most remarkable personalities of the genre. The art critic V. Ciuca, approving of what many others had noticed, said:
"We can speak about Iulia Halaucescu only by corelating her to the Romanian watercolours, art of subtlety and full of éclat. It is true that she exemplarily turned this into real painting, because, through temperament and vocation she expressed unaltered images and her volcanic personality. Definitely personal in everything she did for the contemporary art, the creator of style Iulia Halaucescu is an authentic LADY OF THE ROMANIAN WATERCOLOURS".
Iulia Halaucescu designed the project of the old districtual coat of arms and the ones of the present coats of arms of Piatra-Neamtz and Neamtz district, adopted by contest. Over the years, for her artistic activity she received many diplomas (awarded at the National Graphics Festival, the National Plastic Arts Festival "Lascar Vorel", the "Ceahlaul" Newspaper) medals (The Cultural Merit, The Labour Order, The National Cultural Order for Merit - 2000) and on the 31st of March 1996 she was awarded the title of "Honoured Member of the Academy of Scientists in Romania".
Many of the artist's works are to be found in the collections of the Romanian Art Museum, museums in Constantza, Iassi, Bacau, Vaslui, Alba Iulia and in private collections in the country and abroad: Australia, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, France, Greece, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Holland, Russia, Sweden and U.S.A.
PUBLICATIONS: More than 21 publications wrote about Iulia Halaucescu's works: Cebuc Alex., Florea V. and Laptoiu Negoita, "Romanian Contemporary Artists Encyclopedia", Bucharest, 1996; O. Barbosa, "Dictionary of Romanian Contemporary Artists", Bucharest, 1976; Dragut V. Florea, Grigorescu Dan, Mihalache Marin, "The Romanian Painting through Images", Bucharest, 1970; Ciuca Valentin, "The Romanian Contemporary Watercolours", Bucharest, 1988; The National Press Agency - ROMPRESS, "Personalities of Contemporary Romania", 3, Bucharest, 1995; Prangati C., "Dictionary of Famous People in Neamt District", 1999 etc.
CATALOGUES, GUIDES - more than 50 edited by the Ministery of Culture. The artist's works have been praised by the most famous art critics, academicians, writers in more than 150 articles and in many TV shows, as well.
On 16 November 2003 it was inaugurated "Iulia Halaucescu Art Museum" in her native city Tarcau, Neamtz district.
IULIA HALAUCESCU - painter, graphician, permanent member of The Union of Plastic Artists in Romania (U.P.A.). Born on the 31st of March 1924, in Tarcau, Neamtz district, in a family descending from Christian-orthodox priests, her father being a preist as well, with a rich activity of journalist, author of a Monography of the Tarcau region, awarded by the Romanian Academy.
She graduated the Academy of Philosophy (Bucharest, 1948 - Aesthetics) and the Institute of Plastic Arts "N. Grigorescu" (Bucharest, 1953), after she had studied painting separately with R. Schweitzer-Cumpana, honoured artist of art. Since 1954 she has been a member of U.P.A., where she also participated in the national boarding committee (1963-1968, 1978-1990) and she was president of the Piatra-Neamtz regional branch for 18 years. Between 1956-1960 she participated in the activity of the group of scientific research for art issues in the Bicaz region. She initiated the research for descovering some of Lascar Vorel's works and his diary, also and suggested and assisted the founding of the Collection of the Art Museum in Piatra Neamt (1964), being considered one of the five founding members. She also initiated the building of the Art Galleries of U.P.A. in Piatra-Neamtz (1989) and since 1983 she has activated in the Association of Scientists.
She died on the 18 of December 2007 on her residence in Piatra Neamtz.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS - She opened 58 personal exhibitions, 6 of which in Bucharest; in 1984 the Ministery of Culture and U.P.A. organized a retrospective in Bucharest - "Dalles"; Prague - 1957; Bayonne - 1992; 9 exhibitions in Iassi, Cluj, Bacau etc., one personal exhibition being brought to many major cities in the whole country (Arad, Tg. Mures etc.) by the Romanian Art Museum; we also have to mention the retrospectives at 70 and 75 years old in major art museums.
PARTICIPATIONS IN COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS ABROAD - Held by the Ministery of Culture and U.P.A.: 38 in 21 countries (Czechia, Egypt, Albania, Marocco, Syria, Greece, Russia, U.S.A., Japan, Jugoslavia, Irak, Pakistan, Mexico, Germany, France, Turkey, Sweden, Brasil, Italy, Argentina, Israel).
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS IN THE COUNTRY - at annual exhibitions and national exhibition of drawing: 33; biennial exhibition of painting "Dalles" - Bucharest (1968); national exhibitions - Bucharest, with oil and mainly watercolours (16).
Since 1954 she has participated in all regional and districtual exhibitions.
DOCUMENTARY JOURNEYS - cultural exchanges with Czechia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Greece - all of them ending with exhibitions. She also participated in the country at camps of creation organized by the Ministery of Culture and U.P.A.
MONUMENTAL ART - Together with Simona Vasiliu Chintila she made a sgraffito in Piatra-Neamtz - "The House of Culture", a marble mosaic in Roman - The "Roman" Hotel, a project exhibition - Iassi, a mural painting in oil and monumental tapestries donated by the Romanian Government to representatives of foreign countries.