CRITICAL REVIEW

Caragea’s works display three types of approaches: the portrait (Fisherman Portrait, Macedonian Woman), folkloric subjects (Maternity) and religious subjects (Christ’s Passion – lost work, systems of bronze reliefs, „admirably imagined and executed” (G. Oprescu) scenes. The large monumental orders from the communist period have disappeared completely from the public and critical awareness.

META 2001
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    Biography
    (Balcic, 1906 - Bucharest, 1982)

    Academic studies:
    School of Fine Arts, with Paciurea, Bucharest;
    Studies in Paris with Bourdelle;
    Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest.
     


    PROJECTS

    Exhibitions
    Group exhibitions:
    1927 – Official Salon, Bucharest;
    1929 – Official Salon, Barcelona, Spain;
    1937 – Official Salon, Paris, France;
    1952 – Lenin bronze layout, Annual State Exhibition.

    Portraits:
    - Petre Antonescu, Prof.  Hortolomei etc.

    Monumental works:
    1945 - Victory;
    1947 – The Monument of the Soviet Soldier, Iași;
    Relief, front of the Bucharest Opera House (with Zoe Băicoianu).
     


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Drăguţ, Vasile, 50 Contemporary Sculptors, Editura Uniunii Artiștilor Plastici, Bucureşti, 1979.
    Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D, Colecția Sinteze, Editura META, 2001, pp. 99 - 100.

    Surse web:
    http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Caragea