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fLying BiRds OvER ThE dAnuBE dELTA (ROMAniA)
1991 WATERCOLOR CM. 20 X 30 / in. 7¾ X 11¾, pRivATE COLLECTiOn dEnMARk
THE ROMANIAN
ew regions of Europe seem to have PAINTER WHO hat Ligia Podorean-Ekström
Fsuch intensely rich and diverse Whas achieved in her pictures
scenery, such picturesque settlements COMPOSES COLORS will be to many a striking disclosure,
as the northern countries. The seas INTO POETRY ON even to the calm and self-controlled
and oceans which wash their shores SCANDINAVIA Northerner who will find new sea
jagged by fiords, their small islands, and landscapes full of color
rocky tablelands and fresh water lakes, exuberance and light. It seems that
their mountains and woods which n her pictures she unites the talent just as the Gulfstream has brought
shield towns and villages, their gay Iof an artist born under the Latin the warmed waters of the Tropics to
cottages with luxuriant gardens, the climate of Romania, loving the the Scandinavian coast, so has Ligia
ports and modern buildings, the old sunshine and light, a keen spirit of brought the brilliant colors and light
and the new town are only some of observation and the scientific of the South to the northern
the “wonders” which begin to draw precision, which her profession as an countries. Her palette, rich in colors,
artists anxious to catch the less- architect has marked her, with her rather Latin through the warmth of
known beauty spots, which have love for the northern countries her spontaneous and explosive, yet
increasingly become sources of strengthened by family ties, interest in harmonious handling has fitted in
aesthetic delight. The painter Ligia art and friend-ship with artists. It is with the northern light, the Danish
Podorean has rendered the images of the latter that has prompted her to set and Swedish sea and landscapes,
these novel beauty spots with sincerity up the circle of painters known as the which have been visualized in her
and spontaneity. Swedish Group. canvases in terms of light.
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