CRITICAL REVIEW

While destined to celebrate events and personalities of the national history, his monuments develop a definite rhetoric of the gestures and heroic atitudes. The forms are usually robust,  full of life, in a conventional style, which combines the age’s realism cliché with the academic legacy.

Constantin Prut
 
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Turtucaia, 1919 - Bucharest, 1999)

    Academic Studies:
    1944 - 1946 - Free Academy of Fine Arts Guguianu, Bucharest;
    1945 - 1976 - leads Army’s Fine Art Studio.
     
     


    PROJECTS

    Solo exhibitions:
    1947 - Army Theatre Hall, Bucharest;
    1969 - Budapest, Hungary;
    1970 - Warsaw, Poland;
    1981 - Galatea Gallery, Bucharest;
    1993 - Kansan, SUA;
             - Denver, SUA.

    Group exhibitions:
    from 1948 - participating in national and municipal wards;
    1954 - Venice Biennale, Italy;
    1966 - International Exhibition the Ministry of Defence, Berlin, Germany;
    1969 - Paramilitary International Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary;
    1970 - „ Victoria against fascism ", Warsaw, Poland.

    monumental work:
    - Suvorov, Dumbrăveni, Vrancea;
    - Mircea the Old, Constanta;
    - Romanian Soldier Monument, Miercurea Ciuc and Nyíregyháza, Hungary;
    - Michael the Brave, Cluj-Napoca;
    - Ieremia Grigorescu”, Caracal, Olt;
    - Nicolae Bălcescu, Sibiu;
    - Decebal, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți;
    - The Independence Monument, Constanta;
    - The monumental complex Bogdan Voda, Rădăuţi, Suceava.

    Awards:
    1952 - State Prize;
    1965 - honoured artist.
     
     


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Barbosa, Octavian, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani. Editura Meridiane, București, 1976.
    Florea, Vasile; Lăptoiu, Negoiță, Cebuc, Alexandru, Enciclopedia artiștilor români contemporani, Editura ARC 2000, București, 1996.
    Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D. Colecția Sinteze, Editura META, 2001, pp. 93 - 94.