La peinture roumaine moderne et la France / Pictura românească modernă și Franța
Modern Romanian painting and France

Summary/Abstract: Established in the Romanian Lands or just traveling to these lands, the artists who came from France were conquered by a cultural matrix that was unknown to them, they were the first drawing teachers in the just-formed private schools, had the initiative of the first collections at a time The echoes of the French Revolution determine the formation of the modern civic spirit. The assimilation of their new contribution was facilitated by the effervescence of Romanian spirituality in the first half of the last century, which determined, in a historically compressed time, the awakening of modern civic and national consciousness. After a time when the reception of the Biedermeier style favored the development of the portrait, a new generation of artists emerged who consciously cultivated the connection of the Romanian painting to the great conquests of European art, by assimilating the values ​​of the French art school. In this effort to assert the modern Romanian culture, the name of Theodor Aman (1831-1891) was engrave

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