Ecclesial Painting in Fresco Technique and the Personality of the Romanian Painter Grigore Popescu-Muscel
Ecclesial Painting in Fresco Technique and the Personality of the Romanian Painter Grigore Popescu-Muscel

Summary/Abstract: The present article attempts to identify, from the different interviews in newspapers and on television given by Master Grigore Popescu, the portrait of his personality. If we watch the work manner of Master Grigore Popescu, we can understand the importance given by the painter to the sacred act he is called to answer with artistic skill and with a special soul state. That which for some artists is only a means of earning a living, a routine work, for Master Popescu is the joy to paint, as for him each element of the church must be connected to another. It is ideal that, at the beginning of such a sacred act as is the foundation of a cult place, the priest, the architect, the painter and the sculptor make together a harmonious unitary plan, in all these sections, as a whole according to the Christological teachings. This paper refers also to Master Popescu’s gift as a colourist. During the course of his career, this extraordinary passionate church painter has made over 26 works in fresco and in secco and almost as many restoration works of the pictorial ensembles part of the Romanian national heritage.

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