Nude 2008

I imagine Romul Nutiu made this nude painting with oils on canvas. Look at the gestural marks and the colours—reds, yellows, blacks, and browns wrestling with the pale figure. You can almost see the painting coming into being, shifting and emerging through strokes of trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Nutiu. I imagine what it might have been like for him to make this work. The paint is thick, troweled onto the canvas, and the physicality of the medium shapes our experience, contributing to the emotional and intellectual resonances. The figure is defined by a confident and swift black line. It communicates feeling and meaning—a bold statement, the artist might have been saying, ‘this is what it is to be human.’ Artists are in an ongoing conversation, inspiring each other's creativity across time. Painting is an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations.