A. COSTINESCU - ALBUM 2018
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Where Does the Beauty Comes from in<br />
Augustin Costinescu’s Painting<br />
The painter Augustin Costinescu<br />
Yellow, red and blue give rise to erudite combinations of chromatic<br />
spiritual vibrations sometimes dotted with violet, white or black<br />
shades, which are caught in a genuine dance of feelings, always<br />
fresh, always amazing, always different<br />
In the exhibition, set aside, is looking at us a brilliant "self-portrait"<br />
in warm golden shades, different from the other chromatic games.<br />
Solar Yellow is no longer in the foreground but is hidden in the<br />
combinations of ocher, yellow and black and green with Venetian<br />
red. It is simply titled "Myself"; the painter contemplating the fresco<br />
of life. It is the Master himself who is watching us decisively,<br />
critically, but always with tolerance and patience, with his open and<br />
generous soul.<br />
Iulia Monica Oehler-Șincai, scientific researcher, Romanian<br />
Academy<br />
September 2017<br />
Gallery of Arts, Palace of the National Military Circle<br />
Developed as a vision on the lines of<br />
colourful Romanian style of painting, but<br />
stylistically involved in the expressionism<br />
and fauvism of the French landscape,<br />
Augustin Costinescu assumes through<br />
his work a type of originality that draws<br />
attention by sensitivity, emotion,<br />
genuine feeling in front of light, detected<br />
as the main source the joy of the artist to<br />
paint, alongside the vivid, tensional<br />
colour, embedded in a language where<br />
the plastic subject becomes the favourite.<br />
Through the brightness of his canvasses,<br />
through the astonishing yellow, which<br />
dominates his paintings in mature<br />
compositions, Augustin Costinescu<br />
redefines an attitude of admiration in<br />
front of his personal daily life, marked by<br />
the consecrated subjects of art history:<br />
portrait, static nature, landscape,<br />
composition, perspective, which brings<br />
him closer to the areas of classicism.<br />
It is obvious that the artist looked<br />
closely at the modern European painting,<br />
observing in the great museums of the<br />
world the masters’ creation before him,<br />
carefully studying their work, reading<br />
extensively and understanding the<br />
meaning of the creator in search of<br />
elements of identity necessary for the<br />
definition of the work. Although he is a<br />
worthy successor of colourful Romanian<br />
style of painting defined by Stefan<br />
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