GEO (GEORGESCU) MEDREA, Ada







CRITICAL REVIEW


       Figurative repertoire oscillating between naturalism and decorative features specific for the 1960 - 1970 s with folklore accents. Portraits and compositions. Works in stone and bronze. 

Corina Teacă
 


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    BIOGRAPHY


    (Bucharest, 1917 - Bucharest, 1992)

    Academic studies:
    1932 - 1937 - Academia of Belle-Arte, with Cornel Medrea, Bucharest;
    1937 - École Nationale des Beaux Arts, with Charles Despiau, Paris, France.
    Solo exhibitions:
    1946 - Bucharest;
    1956 – Exhibition of drawing.
     


    PROJECTS

    Group exhibition:
    1940, 1942 - 1944 – Official Salon, Bucharest;
    1948 - Flame, Bucharest.

    Distinctions:
    1940 - Prize Simu for portrait at the Official Salon;
    1941 – State Prize;
    1942 – Prize of Bucharest County;
    1946 – Prize of Ministry of Arts.
     


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Barbosa, Octavian, Dicţionarul artiştilor români contemporani, Editura Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1976.
    Saur, Saur Allegemaine Kunstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten un Volker, 17, K.G. Saur München-Leipzig, 2006.
    Vlasiu, Ioana (coord.), Dicționarul sculptorilor din România. Secolele XIX-XX, vol. I, lit. A-G, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2011, pp. 227 - 228.

    Oprea, Petre, Expozanți la Saloanele Oficiale de pictură, sculptură și grafică 1924 - 1944, Ministerul Culturii și Cultelor, București, 2004.