"The idea that everything I was doing might one day be understood as a success achieved by those who had political control of us obliged me to retreat as far as I could into the sort of 'internal exile' that many people were then burying themselves in.... My life surrounded instead by the Mad Kings and the Fears in my own studio was magical delight be comparison." (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 41; ellipses in the original.) Baba himself wrote of "The nightmares…, the need to make peace with one's memories, and the sadness" that "combine… to bring Goya's monsters up out of the abandoned world… Of such nightly chaos are my Mad Kings and my Fears born…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 157). The vast majority of the Mad Kings that Susura reproduces are credited to "Artist's collection". For Goya's "black paintings" see Erik Weems' The Black PaintingsArchived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006).
Susara, 2001, p. 165 says he failed the entry exam in 1926, passed in 1927, but "lost interest" and was "sent down". The biographyArchived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine on www.ici.ro (accessed 9 July 2006) gives a different account: that from 1926 to 1930 he simultaneously studied fine arts and philosophy.
The web page for a 1998 exhibit of Baba's worksArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006) at the National Museum of Art of Romania refers to him as "one of the best-known contemporary Romanian painters". Parkstone's promotional site for Susura's book says, "His reputation which is well established from the Danube to the Yang-Tse-Kiang, has yet to be fully appreciated in the Western World.". Accessed 9 July 2006.
"[My] old schoolfriend, Tiberiu Iliescu… was all for a revolution in pictorial representation… while I… would endeavour to make the case for the artistic benchmarks of the past, for 'classic judiciousness'…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 15). "The classical realism with which I … executed [the 1953 portrait of Mihail Sadoveanu]…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 20). "I have very much enjoyed seeing myself as the last hero at the bridgehead of great painting." (quoted at Susara, 2001, p.158). See also web pageArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine from a 1998 exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Romania, accessed 9 July 2006.
Series is mentioned on the web pageArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine from a 1998 exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Romania, accessed 9 July 2006.
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The web page for a 1998 exhibit of Baba's worksArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006) at the National Museum of Art of Romania refers to him as "one of the best-known contemporary Romanian painters". Parkstone's promotional site for Susura's book says, "His reputation which is well established from the Danube to the Yang-Tse-Kiang, has yet to be fully appreciated in the Western World.". Accessed 9 July 2006.
Susara, 2001, p. 165 says he failed the entry exam in 1926, passed in 1927, but "lost interest" and was "sent down". The biographyArchived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine on www.ici.ro (accessed 9 July 2006) gives a different account: that from 1926 to 1930 he simultaneously studied fine arts and philosophy.
The web page for a 1998 exhibit of Baba's worksArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006) at the National Museum of Art of Romania refers to him as "one of the best-known contemporary Romanian painters". Parkstone's promotional site for Susura's book says, "His reputation which is well established from the Danube to the Yang-Tse-Kiang, has yet to be fully appreciated in the Western World.". Accessed 9 July 2006.
"[My] old schoolfriend, Tiberiu Iliescu… was all for a revolution in pictorial representation… while I… would endeavour to make the case for the artistic benchmarks of the past, for 'classic judiciousness'…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 15). "The classical realism with which I … executed [the 1953 portrait of Mihail Sadoveanu]…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 20). "I have very much enjoyed seeing myself as the last hero at the bridgehead of great painting." (quoted at Susara, 2001, p.158). See also web pageArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine from a 1998 exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Romania, accessed 9 July 2006.
Series is mentioned on the web pageArchived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine from a 1998 exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Romania, accessed 9 July 2006.
"The idea that everything I was doing might one day be understood as a success achieved by those who had political control of us obliged me to retreat as far as I could into the sort of 'internal exile' that many people were then burying themselves in.... My life surrounded instead by the Mad Kings and the Fears in my own studio was magical delight be comparison." (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 41; ellipses in the original.) Baba himself wrote of "The nightmares…, the need to make peace with one's memories, and the sadness" that "combine… to bring Goya's monsters up out of the abandoned world… Of such nightly chaos are my Mad Kings and my Fears born…" (quoted at Susara, 2001, p. 157). The vast majority of the Mad Kings that Susura reproduces are credited to "Artist's collection". For Goya's "black paintings" see Erik Weems' The Black PaintingsArchived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006).
